DAalseth

Honestly I had to check to make sure I hadn’t written this. 
I started with a 5c, went to an SE, and then an 11. The difference is that I like the 11, I still have it. 
But the rest of the points, yes I am 100% there. This isn’t an inexpensive iPhone. It’s not a small iPhone. Many of the SE customers are not going to be interested in AI. The features it has seem crippled in an attempt to get an upsell to a 15 or 16, but the target for the SE wasn’t people that would buy the main line iPhones.
I honestly don’t think I would recommend the 16e to anyone. 
I honestly think Apple will lose a lot of people to Android. 

Pegasus, created by NSO Group, is known to be spyware used by governments and security agencies around the world.

Don’t kid yourself. There’s a 100% likelihood that Pegasus has found its way into the hands of criminal organizations. 

So this was a $170 jump from the SE, and many people are commenting how that kind of bunches up the pricing structure. My big fear is that Apple will bump the 17 line up by a comparable amount this fall. 

No MagSafe, a poorer camera, and a disturbingly high price, for starters.
If they were aiming at this iPhone 11 owner, they missed badly. 

They are using AI to justify the price bump. 
As I have no interest in AI that means that it’s a decent iPhone for $599 (more in Canada). I’ll have to mull over if it’s worth it. 

EDIT: Here in Canada it starts at $899. Nope, it’s not worth it. The base 16, that is significantly better is not that much more.