The only thing that could get me to upgrade from my iPhone 7 would be a premium version of the iPhone SE. I want a smaller phone, not a bigger one, but I want updated specs and possibly an OLED screen.
Apple resumes selling iPhone SE at lower $249 price on its clearance store
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Re: Apple resumes selling iPhone SE at lower $249 price on its clearance store
#72Hardware lends itself to a vertical business model, Apple has clearly been the best example but even video game console manufacturers write their own games.
With AI assistants seemingly the 'next big thing', which lends itself to a more horizontal model, will Apple change gears to accommodate? Their services division has been growing rapidly.
Apple could leverage it's brand to create an awesome cell phone at a very cheap price. Not a lot of low income people are buying the the XR, my sister has had to replace her iPhone for at least six months but as a college student she's not going to spend a grand on a phone. Maybe it's time for Apple to dial down the luxury brand pricing and make a phone for the common man?
Re: Apple resumes selling iPhone SE at lower $249 price on its clearance store
#73Why does everyone love this phone so much? Clue me in?
The iPhone SE was the last stand of a dead philosophy - the one-handed phone.
To Steve Jobs, it was absolutely essential that all of the core functions of the iPhone could be performed with one hand. That requirement dictated large parts of the iPhone's design and the UX principles of iOS. One-handed operation formed a key part of the marketing of the iPhone 5.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O99m7lebirE
The one-handed phone represents the phone as a means to an end rather than an end itself. You make a quick call to your partner while holding the baby, you check your shopping list while pushing a grocery cart, you send a text while holding a beer. The one-handed phone does a job, then gets out of your way. It's never the total focus of your attention.
Bigger phones are obviously better for intensive use. If you sit an iPhone SE and an iPhone X side-by-side, the iPhone 5 seems comically tiny. It's lousy for web browsing, it's lousy for reading e-books, it's lousy for watching movies. It seems like a relic from a different age. That's because it is - it's a relic from an age when a smartphone was a smart phone, rather than a pocket computer. Rightly or wrongly, there's no turning back from here.
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#74Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes, the demand really is that low. People who want a smaller phone in 2019 are a very small yet very vocal minority. If there was a large untapped market for smaller phones, then the limited number of small phones on the market would be selling a lot better than they actually are. Somebody would notice and start making more of them. Like phones with physical keyboards, phones with small screens have become a niche p…
Do you have any insight as to why? I'm part of that minority and small phones seem better in so many ways. My hands are relatively big I think, but even with "small" phones now I can barely use them with one hand. The smaller screen uses less battery. Larger phones don't fit in pockets very well and result in a spot that wears through on my jeans where the corner of the phone pokes out from my pocket. I'm really stru…
Clothing should have a certain amount of utility, IMO. Perhaps it's the jeans that need to be updated.
I'm pretty happy with the size of my phone currently, not sure it qualifies as small or large. Largest phone I had was for work, Iphone 6+, that thing was unwieldy, essentially a tablet. I wouldn't own one that big personally.
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#75I guess it's time for all those HN people who were moaning about iPhones being too big/expensive/lacking in home buttons/etc... to put their money where their mouths are. It's a 2016 model, so it should remain supported until at least 2021. Not far off, but still better than some (many?) Android phones. I'm not sure how $299/128GB compares to Android products, but it's cheaper than its previous $449 price. I'd pick o…
I’m curious how your 5 “keeps chugging along” - even a year ago my 5s was sluggish (not to mention battery lasted half a day) and the responsiveness of an X in comparison was night and day
iOS 12 gave em a new lease of life.
Re: Apple resumes selling iPhone SE at lower $249 price on its clearance store
#76Needs a spec bump.
…there are four other iPhones with better specs that you can buy.
Re: Apple resumes selling iPhone SE at lower $249 price on its clearance store
#77The only thing that could get me to upgrade from my iPhone 7 would be a premium version of the iPhone SE. I want a smaller phone, not a bigger one, but I want updated specs and possibly an OLED screen.
Not only is this something I’d love, it’s also a comment that gets a lot of upvotes on Hackers News every time it’s made.
Do HN readers have an unusual like for ‘small’ phones or is it just an unserved market?
Re: Apple resumes selling iPhone SE at lower $249 price on its clearance store
#78Aaand... they're gone.
Re: Apple resumes selling iPhone SE at lower $249 price on its clearance store
#79I wonder if they're going to discontinue production of them once they sell them all out? It seems to already be sold out for some of the models (depending on color chosen).
Re: Apple resumes selling iPhone SE at lower $249 price on its clearance store
#80My iPhone 4S is perfectly sized for me and seems indestructible but the battery has been gradually getting worse and worse. I'd hoped that the SE form factor would get an update with the last set of model refreshes and was sadly disappointed when it was discontinued.
When I saw this post, I immediately ordered one.