Welcome to our weekend Apple Breakfast column, which incorporates the entire Apple information you missed this week in a useful bite-sized roundup. We name it Apple Breakfast as a result of we predict it goes nice with a morning cup of espresso or tea, nevertheless it’s cool if you wish to give it a learn throughout lunch or dinner hours too.
In protection of the iPhone SE
In no different job is it signal when individuals begin telling you off. However that’s on-line journalism for you, a discipline wherein aggressive emails are an indication that certainly one of your articles has taken off. (Such emails don’t even essentially imply your opinion was controversial since individuals very not often write in to strenuously agree. It simply means lots of people learn it.)
This week I used our Totally different Assume column to precise an opinion that I assumed could be comparatively uncontroversial: that Apple ought to let the iPhone SE die. I reasoned that the SE made sense when the all-screen iPhone design was pretty new and older designs supplied an appropriate compromise, however that the window had lengthy since closed, and the gadget not represents good worth.
It seems–and that is at all times a shock to me–not everybody agrees. A sequence of (really very well mannered and articulate) emails from followers of the SE highlighted its measurement, worth, and lack of Face ID as factors in its favor, and expressed dismay on the thought of its being discontinued. One other reader, in the meantime, detected an ulterior motive that Apple might need for protecting the SE round: as an entry-level drug to hook tech inexperienced persons and former Android customers earlier than they purchase into the Apple ecosystem as a complete.
If solely Apple may rely upon 100 million extra clients this loyal to the iPhone SE! However sadly, I think my correspondents are within the minority… and the numbers of SE supporters could dwindle additional when the fourth-gen SE is unveiled subsequent 12 months. It’s anticipated to be based mostly on the iPhone 14 chassis, and meaning at the very least two and possibly all three of these benefits will disappear: it received’t be as small or wherever close to as low cost because the iPhone SE from 2022, and is prone to have Face ID too. (Though Apple may put Contact ID within the energy button, because it does on the entry-level iPad.) Even the SE’s most loyal followers could discover it’s not the cellphone they’re on the lookout for.
Nonetheless, it’s signal for Apple that even its least glamorous handset can nonetheless encourage this a lot ardour; I’d be stunned if many readers would write in to defend a funds Samsung cellphone based mostly on a four-year-old design.
Thanks for the emails, everybody. Apart from that one man. He was simply impolite.
IDG
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The rumor mill
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Podcast of the week
It might be chilly within the U.S. and the U.Ok., however that’s not stopping the iPhone rumors from heating up! We’ve a flurry of iPhone hypothesis and we speak about all of it on this episode of the Macworld Podcast.
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