oldenboom

MacPro said:

That was fast!  Well done Apple.

No, it was not. Apple refuses to read their own users forums. If they would have read them, they'd known about this severe bug at least two weeks ago, as you can read here: https://forums.developer.apple.com/thread/79235 Just browse to november 13th, and read the post written by chethan177. Their excuse that they only got to know about this issue this Tuesday afternoon is just lame IMHO.

wood1208 said:

SE 2 will continue ride onto the success of SE in that market, India and surrounding nations. For western world, current SE is pretty much least of choice in iPhone lineup unless in future takes iPhone X characteristic. What Phone user's like ? More screen real estate(thin bezel,edge to edge screen,as little top/bottom space for camera/sensors,etc) in whatever frame put into is everyone's desire. Hoping for next year's LCD iPhone 8S / Plus have same/similar frame size but reflects iPhone X characteristic. When you put iPhone X next to 8 and 8 Plus; that top/bottom large spaces hits you in decision making with less desire to buy 8 / Plus over perfect iPhone X. Someday, Apple's dream of one slab of glass iPhone will come to fruition/realization.

How come you happen to know what phone users like? For instance, I couldn't care less about about more screen real estate. If that top/bottom space hits you in your decision making then say so. But please don't generalize it to "everyone's desire", as it's not true. I'll buy the SE2, no matter what.

Still using my still good-looking, old heavily used iPhone-5, getting sluggish and the battery is worn-out. As soon as Apple confirms it will axe the SE, I'll buy one immediately. The form-factor is perfect to me and I won't buy a larger one even when a larger one would be a lot cheaper. I just hope Apple will release the SE2. I don't care about A10 or A11. I guess A10 will suffice for quite some time.

Reading news like this strengthens my believe Apple appears to be falling for the temptations to go for fashion instead for delivering really professional products. Apple appears to forget many professionals are using Apple products as merely tools, professional tools. I like to see updates for my professional tools so I can decide to replace my current tool when it speeds-up my professional work process, makes it easier or more reliable. To me the touchbar in the new MBP is just a gimmick. It doesn't improve my professional work - worse, the noisy keyboard makes the laptop less usable in environments with many people, the omission of the magsafe adapter makes it more prone to accidents, the need to carry a lot of converter cables is just cumbersome and I didn't even mention the removal of the physical Esc key. Several co-workers had to replace their MBP over the last week - without exception they bought a 2015 MBP. As a professional I don't care about the thickness of my MBP. I do care about interfaces, about a very good keyboard and about a good screen. And I care about a reliable discrete GPU which won't stop working after five years. The new MBP is just a fashion product, not a professional product. It should have been called MacBook. I'm still waiting for the real Pro update of the 2015 MBP.