Live data from Hacker News

iPhone 17e

apple.com

41–50 of 517 posts

Re: iPhone 17e

#46

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.

I'm also a touchID / iphone 8 size fan, but the nice cameras/zoom in flagship models are hard to give up. At least Face ID has improved significantly from the early days of iphone 10 -- it's faster and more reliable than it was on the older models if you tried it back then.

Re: iPhone 17e

#47

$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?

Last time I complained about the pricing of the iPhone, people pointed out that inflation included the prices wasn't to far of from the original iPhone. Still, I don't care that the phones are faster, have larger screens, better camera, FaceID, AI, are thinner light and what have you. The iPhone design peaked in 2015, from there they could just have release the same phone year after year, making it cheaper and cheape…

No, they couldn’t, because then the company would stop existing due to lack of sales.

Re: iPhone 17e

#48

Sad it doesn't have the dynamic island, was going to pick up one of these for testing for iOS app development. Everything else looks fine however, as expected.

I would recommend the base 17 for that.

Or one of the older models? 15/16 have it too.

Re: iPhone 17e

#49

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.

Same. Home button is sooo much better than swiping gestures

Re: iPhone 17e

#50

$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?

Global crazy tariffs, supply chain issues, and RAM and storage shortages due to AI hype betting. Also greed.
Post reply on HN