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Editorial: Who wants the new iPhone SE 2020?
There is talk of iOS 14 ending support for A8 (which would terminate SE & 6s at iOS 13). That's why HomePod appears to be shifting from iOS to software based on tvOS, enabling Apple to limit A8 support to tvOS and make A10 Fusion the new baseline chip for iOS. iPadOS has its own codebase already.pulseimages said:Has it been determined if iOS 14 will support the first generation SE? If it does I’ll wait to get the second generation.
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Editorial: Who wants the new iPhone SE 2020?
What about AirPods and Apple Watch? They cost around what an iPod model once did.andy-uk said:There is a good living to be had selling more expensive devices to fewer and wealthier people, and Apple does a good job with that, but one factor I think in support of the iPhone SE 2nd gen would be to provide a new entry point to Apple products. It used to be the iPod, but no-one buys dedicated music players any more, and it is now probably the second hand market. My first, and current, iPhone is an iPhone 7 Plus which I bought in the UK for £210, which is £210 Apple will never see. It's not that I can't afford £1,000 for something that is worth £1,000 to me - I am typing this on my 15" MacBook Pro which I paid nearly £2,000 for and consider money well-spent - but a handheld device I don't use much, which I am likely to drop and break or have stolen, is not worth £1,000 to me, but I could be persuaded to pay £300 or £400 for. If the lower price means I can't make my head look like a talking poo or make tiny AR dinosaurs appear on my desk or shoot TV broadcast quality video you know what, I can probably live without them.
If Apple want to drive revenue from services they need to get iOS devices into as many hands as possible, and post-coronavirus lockdown we are about to enter the worst recession in 100 years, so an affordable, entry level iPhone that does what most people want a phone to do connected to revenue-generating services seems sensible to me. Roll on the iPhone SE 2nd gen Plus. -
Editorial: Who wants the new iPhone SE 2020?
I did note that Apple's pricing in international currency will be unfavorable and may likely get even worse over time, but "upgrades" are not the only reason for buying a new SE. This article specifically details two groups that are not upgrades: people buying for children and enterprise deployments. But lots of people hanging on to a 6S era phone will eventually have their phone lost, broken, etc, and the SE will be an ideal replacement option for them.mike54 said:Maybe in the US, tech blogs can call it a cheap phone, but here, outside the US, it is not a cheap phone.Cheap for Apple to produce though. It is a relatively a cheaper iPhone - relative to Apple's other offerings.Not enough tech updates to justify an upgrade from the 4.5 year iPhone 6S.
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Editorial: Who wants the new iPhone SE 2020?
But a ton of people is literally about a dozen, unless they're wearing a lot of clothes and like cake, then it's about ten.Hreb said:"There may have been some users who did like its small size" -- in fact there are tons of us.
The iPhone SE 2020 confirms what we already knew about Apple's mobile strategy: Apple is no longer interested in innovating when it comes to form factor.
But I hear you, we all have preferences of what we'd like a company like Apple to do, specifically tailored for our whims.The thing is, Apple knows exactly how many people bought a 4" SE, and it has some of the smartest people in the world forecasting who all would buy another one.
