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My mother still has an old iPhone because it fits her hand. They don't seem to get this anymore.
It sold very poorly. Despite all of the YouTubers and social media posts calling for smaller iPhones, the real demand for these is very small.
The older demographics generally prefer larger phones because they have larger screens, which are better for aging eyes.
A 60Hz display in 2026 is quite surprising.
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Taking inflation into account, a $599 iPhone in 2026 would have been $380 in 2007. Given that the actual launch price in 2007 was $499, that's a pretty hefty drop.
A technology doodad getting 25% cheaper in real terms over 15-20 years is about as far opposite as you can get from a hefty price drop.
No mention of the amount of onboard RAM. (In this press release or in https://www.apple.com/iphone-17e/specs/ .)
Going back to the 2007, Apple doesn’t reveal the amount of RAM for the iPhone in their marketing. Occasionally there’s a feature that requires a minimum amount of RAM like Apple Intelligence but that’s the exception.
A 60Hz display in 2026 is quite surprising.
I doubt the target market for the 17e would notice... or care.
I'd love to have a smaller/cheaper phone but I continue to hold onto my Pro from a couple years ago is for the high end camera, particularly the telephoto lens. No, I don't need it all the time. But when you do need it, it's invaluable.
What I would like is a really good single camera. If that's even possible. One thing I find sort of irritating about the multi-camera setup on my iPhone is that using it as a magnifier is often frustrating. Get too close to something and it decides to switch cameras, which then means now you're actually looking at something else entirely. Maybe I'm missing a setting somewhere, I can't be the only person to notice how…
$599 still feels like they're setting whatever price they can get away with. It's been 20 years, why don't we have sub $500 new iPhones yet?
The first SE in 2016, which wasn’t very far from flagship at the time, was only $399. It was a steal.
Still holding onto my 13 mini. Dreaming of another small form factor release one of these announcements.. :'}
Still holding onto my 13 mini. Dreaming of another small form factor release one of these announcements.. :'}
SE 3rd gen here as my daily driver. Small form factor and Touch ID. The perfect iPhone IMO. Not looking forward to having to settle for those comically large phones with Face ID for my next one.
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It always surprises me that the mini was ~1% of sales and yet the pro mini comments get so many upvotes
It was 3-5%, if I remember the numbers correctly. There are rumors that the Air didn’t sell better.
Camera quality is the second most important thing to me (after not needing finger enhancement surgery to hold the phone).
So, they designed it to fail, and it still was 3-5% of sales vs. ones that actually got good spec bumps every year. (If you’re upgrading the phone every 12 months, why buy the one with cameras a few years behind the curve?)
Anyway, I like my mini. I wish it had touch id instead.