So....should we send an email even if we aren’t disappointed the SE is gone?
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iPhone SE (2016) Email Tim Cook about the iPhone SE
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So....should we send an email even if we aren’t disappointed the SE is gone?
Help me figure out what to do!!
How do you know it's only a "handful?" The SE SHINES as a phone. Yes, the screen it harder to read, but it's a PHONE. Easy to carry. Would I buy one? Maybe. Did I own the original one. Yes.
I do keep a backup phone mainly for travel. I pop my sim in it and I'm good to go. At the moment, I do this with my old 6S, but would prefer to use a 5SEX. In fact, if I was Tim Cook, that's what I would call it.
Disclaimer, I just ordered the XS.
I don’t believe Apple would still list it on their website if the carriers were just liquidating stock. I think Apple is still manufacturing these phones, albeit in limited quantities. They just contracted a new plant in India last year reportedly just to build SEs, likely for the emerging international markets, but that means they can still supply domestic retailers.
Apple simply didn’t want to carry such old products in their flagship retail stores, but they haven’t discontinued it.
I really love what Apple has done this year with the XS and XR - but I just want a smaller phone & one smaller than my 7.
So I expect that my contributions to Apple’s quarterly returns this year will confinue to be £0.79 a month for 50GB iCloud Drive space.
I may be tempted by an iPad with a Smart Keyboard with a trackpad however...
So I expect that my contributions to Apple’s quarterly returns this year will confinue to be £0.79 a month for 50GB iCloud Drive space.
I may be tempted by an iPad with a Smart Keyboard with a trackpad however...
Does moving forward involve getting surgery on my hands so a bigger phone is actually usable?
We are making a truckload of money with Apple stocks at Casa Q, but I still want a small phone. My SE will suffice for a while, but I'll go back to a flip phone before I carry a phablet around.
It because mostly apple user experience at the first place .Now, even cheap huawei, xiomi are big phone phablet.
https://medium.com/@Draward/mobile-reachability-rules-of-thumb-ce37dd0cd3ad
I bought a backup SE tonight. I am really loving my little phone now, it has displaced my 8 Plus, which is now a home-based mini-tablet for me. I didn't want to chance not being able to get a replacement phone, so I grabbed another SE.
Hopefully, I can get by at least the next 3-4 years before needing another small phone. Maybe by then Apple will have something that I can buy that is as ergonomically pleasant to use as an SE.
Hopefully, I can get by at least the next 3-4 years before needing another small phone. Maybe by then Apple will have something that I can buy that is as ergonomically pleasant to use as an SE.
How is your experience using the 8 Plus as a home-based mini tablet? I tried using an iPhone Plus like that awhile back (main phone was a 5s at the time) as an experimental solution to my frustration with not being able to comfortably hold an iPad mini in one hand. It was a bit too small of course being a phone, and I missed having slide over and picture in picture. But all that was forgivable. The reason the Plus didn’t work out for me in the end was because it wasn’t designed to be a complementary device the way that iPads and iPod touches are—namely no Continuity features. The dealbreaker for me was that it didn’t forward text messages and phone calls from my main phone (at all or reliably, I can’t remember). This was a problem for me because I dock my phone when I get home and carry my mini tablet around as a phone replacement. I think I had another issue with one or two of my apps not working on two different phones, but not sure about that. In the end though, I went back to the mini, which overall is a great device.
It works okay for me, I use it in the bedroom sometimes and here and there in other rooms.
Perhaps, perhaps not but sometimes it's a good idea to let the dice fly high!
I can appreciate somebody wanting to reach out to the CEO of a company, because Apple has been known to respond to customers sometimes in situations like this, even though they may not divulge too many details. But Apple has made it clear that the SE is not part of their future in the current form that it is now. Will they ever revamp something in the future that we don’t expect? Absolutely , as this company is unpredictable.
I am hoping that they phase out the SE name now, because they want to make the small form factor a part of the main line, ie. an "XS Mini" or whatever. But since it wasn't announced this time around, I am not getting my hopes up. "XR Mini" would still be possible though.
Just give me an A10 or 11, an iPod Touch Gen 6 body, the SE camera and 5S touchID + front facing camera
pure bliss
will never happen though
pure bliss
will never happen though
I believe there's quite substantial market for SE sized phone and Apple realizes this. You can easily see it in marketshare stats (SE is almost as popular as X in many countries). However there are several obstacles to tackle.
First of all, making any device smaller is problematic from the engineering standpoint. Making 3,5" and 4" iPhones was much more difficult than today's iPhones. Shrinking today's iPhone tech (especially edge to edge displays) to the size of SE is probably possible, but costly. I think Apple would be able to do that but..
..they really don't have to. Most Apple fans I know will buy these new devices, even if they complain at first. That's why they probably decided to kill this size despite working on it for some time (remember all those leaks of SE2?).
I'd pay a lot for iPhone Xs shrunk down to the size of SE.
First of all, making any device smaller is problematic from the engineering standpoint. Making 3,5" and 4" iPhones was much more difficult than today's iPhones. Shrinking today's iPhone tech (especially edge to edge displays) to the size of SE is probably possible, but costly. I think Apple would be able to do that but..
..they really don't have to. Most Apple fans I know will buy these new devices, even if they complain at first. That's why they probably decided to kill this size despite working on it for some time (remember all those leaks of SE2?).
I'd pay a lot for iPhone Xs shrunk down to the size of SE.
I agree. Big waste of time. They have enough choices of phones, almost too many. Move foward...
XE
I wish it were just about naming convention, but given that the SE has not been discontinued and merely dropped from Apple run retail stores, it’s likely about maximizing profits for the 1st quarter earnings, by eliminating the lowest end, lowest margin products as an option.
And they might also use it as a gauge to see how many former 4/5/SE customers upgrade to a larger phone where the SE isn’t part of the lineup, which would give them valuable information about how many XEs to plan for, or cancel altogether.