New iPod Touch based off of new iPhone SE2?
*crosses fingers*
Apple will make an iPhone SE 2 if they ever want me to buy another. It will have the same basic features and external design as the SE. It WILL have a headphone jack and home button, square edges or I will never buy one.
The SE was the last iPhone worth buying Apple has made.
HOWEVER... As buying an SE (or a hypothetical SE 2 provided it remains true to the SE form factor,) will not necessitate buying Apple’s overpriced, lousy (and possibly cancer-causing) headphones to use many of the iPhone’s most IMPORTANT functions, like TALKING on it, because.... IT. IS. A. *PHONE*! or watching videos, listening to streamed media, music, podcasts, etc., or playing most games without having to choose between either pissing everyone off around you or playing in silence (which make listening to music or podcasts REALLY difficult...) which would make less money for Apple, hence... I don’t think they’ll bring the SE back or make an SE 2, or if they DO, it will include poison-pill, defective-by-design “features” like an unreplaceable battery with every part of the phone GLUED to it by epoxy stronger than every component afixed to it, (while any chemical capable of dissolving the epoxy will also destroy every other part,) making repair or replacement of any component IMPOSSIBLE... or... a battery designed to FAIL the day after the warranty expires, (similar to the original iPod,)... OR... Apple will move to a subscription-based pricing model, where you pay every month or the device formats and bricks itself or sequesters half the device’s storage or drops processor speed, etc...
There’s little I’d put past Apple or indeed, ANY uber-rich super-corporation, in the pursuit of every last PENNY of $$$PROFIT$$$ because that’s what our economic “system” REQUIRES.
Corrupted capitalism doesn’t work any better than any other corrupted thing. SURPRISE!!!
