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kkqd1337 said:

I think the price conscious would choose a lower price vs FaceID and AI.

And also, for your average use, AI really is a junk feature.

Whatever Apple say I feel like I am being used as a free trainer for their AI 

I'm sure there are some folks who would prefer to use the telegraph if given the option, but the technology is advancing and this is in service of bringing their products all to the same, current feature sets. Maintaining touchID on one random product means continuing to have to support that feature in future software updates as well as continue sourcing components in small quantities for one product line, which will actually make them more expensive over time than sharing components in larger volume across all devices.

cjlacz said:

Didn’t even read this. Can you please stop presenting early betas as some kind of final product review?

If this was People magazine, I'd understand your point. However, this is Apple Insider...INSIDER being the key word. Apple Intelligence is the biggest development to come out of Apple software in years, of course a blog for dedicated Apple fanatics is going to do a "first look" at a new feature when it comes out. It is mentioned several times in the article that this is new and Beta and not complete, but it's not insane for them to give a summary of a new feature when people finally have access to it and Apple opening up the developer Beta to anyone makes it very widespread and newsworthy.

jamnap said:

  I would pay a few more bucks for MagSafe.  Sad.

Thats literally the point. Thats why there's multiple devices with multiple price points and differing features. For some customers the 16e is the correct phone. You are not that customer. Thats' why there's a 16 and 16pro. 

paulmacintosh said:

The ‘e’ is a clumsy leftover from the SE, it doesn’t even mean anything.

'e' = (Entry) model, (Essential) features only?