Apple’s most boring new product is likely also its most important. No, we’re not talking about Apple’s new 3-meter Thunderbolt 4 Pro Cable that’s coming soon for $159. We’re talking about the old/new school iPhone SE 3.
The iPhone SE is boring. Ever since it was introduced it’s been a sort of strange outlier. In its current form, it’s basically a five-year-old design with hand-me-down features. It helps that those features happen to be very nice, but nothing about the SE is new or exciting by anyone’s definition.
Take the fact that the company added 5G to the SE. When Apple introduced the iPhone 13 and 13 Pro models, it made a big deal of including what Verizon is fond of calling “ultra-wideband.” That almost no one gets to use the slice of the network that operates on millimeter-wave frequencies doesn’t matter, the promise of extremely-fast mobile internet on a smartphone made for great marketing.
With the SE, however, Apple isn’t even bothering with that version of 5G. Instead, it just included a radio that works with C-band 5G, which Verizon and AT&T turned on last month.
Still, despite the fact that there’s really nothing new here, the iPhone SE could be Apple’s most important product this year.
MacDailyNews Take: iPhone SE 3 is important because pretend iPhones running Android in the SE 3’s price range are trash. Any smartphone buyer with two or more brain cells to rub together will choose a real iPhone over a shoddy, insecure, privacy-trampling knockoff wannabe.
iPhone SE 3 is going to ignite a stampede of Android upgraders!
See also: Apple announces the powerful new iPhone SE with 5G
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The Humdrüm Löön secretly wants to buy one to upgrade his Pixel 3, but is too afraid to be seen as a hypocrite. Of course that is already IS a fliposh!t is well known.
The iPhone 6, 7; 8, SE 2 and 3 design is old school, but people who love the design, love it.
Pretty simple stuff. A bit too simple for the Humdrüm Simpletoon, though.
There are a huge number of Android lovers and Mac haters who read this site. The downvotes prove it and also prove that Apple is winning, and that Downvoters betray who they really are with each downvote. It’s sad but so obviously true.
I love both iOS and Android but have been leaning more towards Android lately as I value choice and flexibility but I love how reliable iPhone is even if it’s boring and I type this from an 11 Pro Max and I also own a Pixel 6.
I look at the number of votes, not the number of stars ⭐️ More votes is better than fewer votes with more stars. If someone takes time to read and vote (👍 or 👎), it means what I wrote was meaningful 😉
The OP has a nasty habit of changing his handle, usually attempting to ridicule other users. Ridiculous off-topic supposition adds nothing to the subject. Inappropriate use of umlauts shows obsessive-compulsive behavior. Of the 5 sentences posted, only one has any discussion value whatsoever, and that one is basically a statement of the obvious.
It shouldn’t be a surprise that these posts are downvoted by people coming here expecting to read relevant discussion about Macs. It is too bad this forum censors users it doesn’t agree with while giving support to those who do nothing but insult or ridicule other posters.
It’s the most exciting iPhone in lineup because it’s the ultimate refinement of the original iPhone Steve Jobs introduced in 2007. It can’t be any larger and remain easily pocketable and useable with one hand. The excellent back camera doesn’t stick out in a big bump because there’s just one and it doesn’t overlap internally with an edge-to-edge screen. iPhone SE is an optimal design.
I disagree with the author’s conceit. The new, small iPhone will be fine in emerging markets (hello, India), but there’s already been two earlier versions of this low-end model, so there’s not much new here.
What IS new is Apple’s willingness to cannibalize it’s flagship Mac Pro with the Mac Studio, which delivers virtually all of the utility at roughly one third the price. The Mac Studio is still overpowered for the vast majority of Mac users, but it shows Apple is still willing to take a big swing, even if it undercuts its own top of the line.
You’re speaking of the current MP, but it’s hardly a stretch to think the upcoming MP replacement, then, will be a solid punch above the Apple’s historical best?
Apple makes pragmatic decisions. They aren’t taking a loss on dead-end Intel Mac Pro sales at this point by introducing Mac Studio. In fact, Mac Pro sales were probably stalled with most potential customers waiting for the Apple Silicon Mac Pro, if they can without impacting their business needs too adversely. So, Apple offers Mac Studio now. In presentation, they compared it in graphs easily beating Intel Mac Pro with mid-range config. Many Mac Pro customers will now get off the bench and buy Mac Studio, because don’t need the new Mac Pro. Apple gets those sales now. The remainder will wait for the new Mac Pro because they need ultimate in performance.
Who is the mörøn downvoting ken1w’s reasoned post? There really are some whacko lööns who read this site that should just effoff.
No surprise that whacko loons downvote. That’s their only gambit.
A lot of fools here obviously.
It’s delightful to hear esteemed opinions on new technology
You can get some really good Android phones at the price of the iPhone SE and the phones I’d recommend over the iPhone SE as re the Pixel 4a series (if you can find it) and Galaxy A53 or OnePlus Noord which can all do so much more than the iPhone SE but the iPhone SE will get much better support and is more reliable along with that Apple optimisation and ecosystem.