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I love Apple Maps, and it’s beautiful 3D Flyovers, but I do regularly spot and submit corrections on missing and mislabeled locations. It’s a huge data integrity problem for Apple. Google Maps is not without its flaws, but it has far more data and far fewer errors. I still use Apple Maps primarily, because I find the UX for Google Maps frustrating and unintuitive (and most other Google products, frankly), but I do wish Apple would sink some of their billions into improving their data, and adding a streetview competitor (which is sounding likely).

potatoman said:

Regardless of the name, this cheaper 6.1” iPhone sounds like it is happening. The purpose of the SE is not the form factor. It means “special edition”. At the time of its original release it was a special edition because it didn’t fit in their current naming scheme, it was a random update to the 5S design. There is no rule book saying any “special edition” iPhone will be 4”. This article even says they are considering between a 4” and 6” size. You tell me this rumoured 6” iPhone doesnt sound like it could be some kind of special edition to the X?

Just an interesting thought is all, chances are I am wrong. But we’ve heard a lot about the SE 2 and the random cheaper 6.1” iPhone that will be similar to the X. Wouldn’t it be such a twist if they were infact the same phone?

As for having a low end phone, release a 32GB iPhone 7 with the $100 price drop it’ll get in September and you pretty much hit the current SE price point. 

There may very well be a 6” iPhone in the works, but I HIGHLY doubt such a product would carry the SE moniker; and it’s not about the “special edition” name. The primary purpose of the SE is the smaller form factor. This explanation is prominent in both its existing marketing and in the original 2016 product announcement. It was absolutely not some “random update” to the 5/5S design. Apple explained at launch that a significant number of 5/5S owners who resisted upgrading to the popular 6/6S models had been ardently urging Apple not to kill off the 4” form factor. At the same time, Apple was seeing older 4” models as a popular entry point to the Apple line, particularly in strategically important markets like China. This popularity became even more apparent when pent-up demand outpaced supply for months following the launch.

It is a possibility Apple will choose to slightly tweak the screen size in future models while still adhering to the 4” form factor, or even abandon the SE line altogether if they determine users are less enamored with smaller phones than they were two years ago (however I find a kill-off of the SE less likely, as it has already proven itself a popular segment, and is central to Apple’s strategy for entering India’s phone market). More likely is that Apple keeps it around as the Mac Mini equivalent to the iPhone — a compact, inexpensive, less feature-rich model that serves as both a gateway and niche product to the iPhone line. But this notion that the SE will suddenly re-emerge as a jumbo-screen budget alternative to the more profitable flagship models is nothing but a pipe dream.

Ugh. Why are there so many iPhone size queens out there?! Newsflash: A 6” screen is not an SE; it’s a completely different phone. The iPhone SE is by definition a compact form factor with ~4” screen. The small size at a cheaper price point is the market for the SE; it is the purpose it exists! Sorry but there is not going to be a 6” SE; that’s why the 8, 8 Plus, and X exist. These are the larger, higher demand, more profitable models. Why would Apple abandon their popular compact phone segment AND cannibalize their more profitable models by introducing some cheap, jumbo-sized SE?! Sorry but that’s just not gonna happen. 

These iPhone SE X renders are laughable. There is zero chance that the next iPhone SE will resemble the iPhone X.

If they’re going to release Product Red iPhones then I sure hope they slip an updated SE into the mix. 🙏