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You’re missing how the SE was created: it’s a relic of old supply chain parts, now sold at a cheaper price. The original SE was a rehash of the 5/5S casing, wit
by graeme 7y ago
You’re missing how the SE was created: it’s a relic of old supply chain parts, now sold at a cheaper price. The original SE was a rehash of the 5/5S casing, with 6S internals.
It wasn’t mace because of any particular belief about size. 5/5S was just the old phone. It was easy to continue that size for a while, but probably hard now without a market.
The new SE is the same story: old iphone 8 casing, iphone 11 components. Easy to make from supply chain detritus, so why not make it?
But, you might be interested in the rumours of a small iphone 12 this year. It sounds like Apple has been listening to small phone advocates, and appears to actually be making them.
But that will be a new phone. The SE style phone’s type is instead dictated by whatever was current 2-3 years ago.
- dijit 7y agoYeah, I'm not blind to the fact that the form factor was dictated by the spare parts and manufacturing process investment for older phones; I'm really not denying that at all. I'm just indicating that some people are buying the SE not because it's cheap, but because it's the best (or only) option for a 4" high end phone, and while I can't quantify the proportions of price-sensitive vs. size-sensitive; my anecdotal evidence that it's more size-sensitive than price-sensitive. At least in the circles I travel in. > But, you might be interested in the rumours of a small iphone 12 this year. It sounds like Apple has been listening to small phone advocates, and appears to actually be making them. There's always something on the horizon which never seems to materialise, the iPhone 11 [Pro] was supposed to be small, then the SE2 rumours which are now bunked. At some point soon I'll just go all-in on an iPad Pro or some other tablet and interface with it very sparingly, via headphones and the watch.
- graeme 7y agoFair enough. I’ve been using an SE since my 8 broke and the size is quite nice. Indeed less distracting and easier to handle. The small iphone 12 rumours are from Ming-Chi Kuo, who basically has not been wrong about this sort of thing. I dom’t recall there ever being rumours of a small iphone 11, or that the SE 2 would be small. Certainly not from him. So, I’d rate it quite likely.