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randominternetperson said:

The answer: $200 that stays in your bank account (or doesn’t add to your credit card balance). 

$200 doesn’t stay in your bank account by buying the iPhone 16e. $600 leaves your bank account by buying the iPhone 16e. It’s a very common fallacy that people make on a daily basis (for purchases big and small). The only way to keep the money in your bank account is to not make the purchase.

charlesn said:
When Apple reports earnings in July for the quarter that ends on June 30, that will mark the first full quarter of 16e sales concluding with the busy graduation season and we should get a much better idea at that time from Apple of how the 16e is faring. 

We will get some idea about how well the iPhone 16e is doing from the earnings report, but not as much information as you might want. Apple typically keeps that information close to the vest. (Apple stopped reporting specific units sold a number of years ago.)

Apple will report about the sales and revenue of the iPhone category overall and give a little information about how specific geographic regions are doing for the iPhone category. But Apple (almost certainly) won’t break-out how many iPhone 16e units were sold.

If the iPhone 16e is massive success, Apple won’t tell us the exact number of units sold. And if the iPhone 16e is a spectacular failure, Apple won’t tell us the exact number of units sold. And if the iPhone 16e is somewhere in between a massive success or spectacular failure… well, you get the point, lol.

We can get an idea of how well the iPhone 16e is selling from channel checks (financial analysts contacting parts suppliers, 3rd party retailers and such). Anytime you hear (for example) about how the iPhone 16 Plus is not selling very well, you are probably learning about that from analysts’ channel checks.

Luis.A.Masanti said:

Maybe it is just me… but I have a totally different explanation for the 16e.
Apple was… ‘forced’… to do it by Apple Intelligence.

Previous SE models were all made up of… old chips…
But now, the need the newest one… to run Apple Intelligence.
So… they put the needed CPU and RAM/storage… and build everything around,
And they got a wonderful opportunity to test the C1!

What's the catch? That maybe this model will live two years… and when the chip is… ‘old’… they could bring back the SE 4… well, a more budget-friendly model.

Or… maybe… they sell zillions of 16e… and the ‘e model’ stays as a full member of the iPhone family.
At the end of the day… it is the cheapest to run Apple Intelligence. If Apple Intelligen wins… 16e will also win.
Time… the time Apple Intelligence takes to show its full potential will be the defining partner for the success of the 16e!

When you said “forced” (before I continued reading) I thought for a second you were going to joke about Apple Intelligence reaching sentience and had demanded of Tim Apple to make a budget-friendly model capable of running Apple Intelligence.

sportyguy209 said:

@appleinsider_admin (suggested edit)...<Ultimately a glass screen is a deformable material, and the crease develops from fatigue failure. That's basically the same materiel [material] failure as when you bend an aluminum can over and over, and it tears on its own.>

While I'd enjoy having a larger iPhone screen some of the time, I love the portability of my current iPhone. Not sure I can have both (or at a price point that is affordable), but Apple has surprised me before (in both good and bad ways). I'm looking forward to seeing what they come up with. :-)

The Oppo Find N5 is a foldable phone that (when folded) is basically the same size as the iPhone 16 Pro Max.

Now personally, I think the iPhone 16 Pro Max is way too big, lol. I wouldn’t want to carry around the 16 Pro Max nor the Oppo Find N5. But for those who disagree with me (and there are many that disagree with me), there is a foldable phone that is as portable as the iPhone 16 Pro Max.

iPhone 16 (Normal) vs iPhone 16 Pro: There isn’t enough there to convince me to pay more for the Pro over the (Normal). The (Normal) seems like the better purchasing option for me.

If, however, the iPhone 17 (Normal) had 8GB of RAM while the iPhone 17 Pro had 12GB of RAM, that might be enough to convince me to pay up for the Pro.

However (second however): Limiting the 12GB of RAM only for the 17 Pro Max model would not convince me to buy the 17 Pro Max. And it’s not about the (presumed) price of the 17 Pro Max. It’s specifically about the (presumed) size of the 17 Pro Max. I don’t want to have to carry around that massive phone just to have more RAM.