“Essentials” would be my guess. It shouldn’t be “Edition” because Apple has previously used that to denote the most premium watches, but they aren’t always consistent, so who knows.
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'iPhone SE 4' Rumored to Be Named 'iPhone 16E'
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“Essentials” would be my guess. It shouldn’t be “Edition” because Apple has previously used that to denote the most premium watches, but they aren’t always consistent, so who knows.
What a TERRIBLE name. And with how infrequently they update the SE line it doesn't make any sense either...
Who cares what Apple calls it. They can call it pasta fagioli as long as it has the few features I want, and doesn't cost $1,000. Or $500.
Just because it didn’t make “record profits” doesn’t mean it wasn’t a success. They didn’t make the minis people wanted. I want a mini with Pro features.
I would like to but there are still some annoying compromises like the lack of proper mic/speaker for calls. I don’t currently have an Apple Watch, but they can’t pair with iPad either.
For now you gotta have an iPhone still, I wish Apple would add full phone capabilities even with a price hike.
That’s the thing here where I live too:
Two different carriers were giving away a completely free pair of AirPods Pro with any purchase of a 12 mini or 13 mini. And that was after they had already gone down in price. They couldn’t get rid of the remaining stock, not as long as the >6.1” iPhones were sold right next to them.
But the mini mob really wants to suggest that a 100% for profit, trillion dollar corporation cut a successful product from their lineup for no good reason? That sales were good enough but Apple just ditched it anyway?
Apple doesn’t make iPhones for any of us as individuals. They make them for the average consumer, and the average consumer wants as big a display and as good a battery life as possible within their budget.
-A smaller smartphone that offers 1/1 the same features as a bigger, heavier, more expensive model but (by the nature of its physical dimensions) only offers 60-80% of the bigger models display size and battery life will never be a success when the bigger model is being offered right next to the smaller one.
-iPhone mini, really any <6.1” iPhone, would only sell well in a vacuum, in a market without (+6.1”) “phablet” sized iPhones.
iPhone mini being $100-$300 less than 6.1” iPhone doesn’t matter as most will pay it off with a payment plan and gladly drop a lot more just to have the better battery life and bigger display.
Giving the mini Pro specs and Pro everything also doesn’t solve for the display and battery life (by definition) not being able to be on par with that of it’s >6.1” Pro and Pro Max equivalents.
I don't care about the name but the interiors. The SE with 5G back then was cool. I like small size and still
- a home button.
- a home button.
Give me an iPhone 16 mini to replace my 12 mini!
People who buy Pro aren’t going to buy mini Pro. People just aren’t buying small phones anymore.
Regular mini iPhone sits alongside of regular larger iPhone won’t sell. Pro mini iPhone alongside larger Pro iPhone won’t sell either.
Let’s not pretend that Apple can fit all these Pro camera and hardware inside a mini iPhone. Even if they can, battery life will suck too.
I don’t know why it is so hard for you to understand.
Smaller, but with a bigger battery--that'll satisfy almost everyone
Have you looked at the size? Assuming it is based on the iPhone 14, then an iPhone 16E or SE would be only a fraction of an inch bigger than the current iPhone SE. The screen is a lot bigger but the case only a little bigger.
You talk like it’s the OP’s fault. He probably bought the mini. It wasn’t his fault.
I can’t imagine why the most portable iPhone ever (TM) failed to gain traction during the two years it was illegal to leave your house.
I had a 13 mini before I got this 16 pro, and the 13 mini size was way better. It honestly wasn’t that small, it had a 5.4” screen; people act like it was the size of an iPhone 3G or something. The size was easily enough for typing (and actually much better for one handed typing than the 16 pro) and web pages. Battery life suffered a bit but was on par with larger phones from just a couple years before like the 11 or Xs.
So, the 12/13 Pro Max became Apple’s most popular models because people wanted phablets with telephoto lens to use at home? Nobody had tablets or notebooks at home, right?
The pandemic theory has been proven to be bunk time and time again. Most people still went to work and travelled locally.
If anything, the pandemic showed it was really important to have a big display as screen time skyrocketed.