Welcome to our weekly Apple Breakfast editorial , which includes all the Apple newsworthiness you miss last week in a handy insect bite - sized roundup . We call it Apple Breakfast because we think it goes great with a Monday dayspring cupful of coffee or teatime , but it ’s cool if you want to give it a read during tiffin or dinner party hours too .
Not so special
When take by friends and family for my advice on which iPhone to purchase , I used to talk up the SE . It was just a nice compromise : a flying chip in a authoritative chassis at an appealing price . They might have look jealously at whichever ludicrously overpriced flagship iPhone I was toting at the time ( for a review ! ) but for 90 percent of the populace , the SE made far more sense .
I contain pop the question this advice a while ago , however . Indeed , perceptive reader will have straight off been capable to date those conversations , or at least tie them to a specific era of iPhone SE : namely the 2nd - gen model from 2020 . The 2016 original was pretty nice too , but the3rd - gen SEfrom 2022 represented a steep nosedive in value and relevancy , and it ’s hard to see the line amend from here on out .
Theories on the 4th - gen SE vary wide , but one new report add up up the world-wide gumption that nobody , not even Apple itself , can see a clear roadmap for the formerly popular budget earpiece . Writing on X / Twitter , the prolific leaker Majin Bu goes against the popular consensus that the next SE will mimic the design of the iPhone 14 , and says or else that it will closely comply the design of the yet - to - launch iPhone 16 , including avertically alignedrear tv camera excrescence ( with a single camera ) and Dynamic Island . expect , what ?
Based on what has been reported to me , the iPhone SE could have a design very similar to that of the current iPhone 16 still in development . The newfangled iPhone SE will most probably have a undivided camera instead of the double one of the iPhone 16 models , otherwise it seems that the…pic.twitter.com/Z1Gio4nBRu
The SE was always based on the idea that budget customer would rather compromise on design than power , hence the decision to put an up - to - escort chipset in an old figure . Which makes the idea of ( presumptively ? ) next outpouring ’s SE getting a physical conception that ’s hardly six months old very intemperately to compass .
That ’s not to say there wo n’t be compromises : for one matter , the 4th - gen SE will reportedly still have a single rear - facing camera lens . Which is a nostalgic pick , to say the least . ( You bang the last non - SE iPhone to have a single rear camera ? The XR , from 2018 . ) And you ’re left to wonder who on land Apple think is looking for an iPhone with an incredibly novel conception and an incredibly old camera setup — that probably costs at least $ 499 .
Of naturally , this report may be inaccurate ; MacRumors , indeed , expire so far as to deploy the most direful of all rumor descriptors,“sketchy . ”But the specifics in this case matter less than the larger signified that nothing will shape , that none of the various rumors skirt the 4th - gen SE have made sense or presented an likeable case for anyone to grease one’s palms the thing . There simply is n’t the quad in Apple ’s card that there once was for a canny budget via media .
The problem , as I’vediscussed before , is that the moment pass . For a few year after Apple switch to an all - screen design on the iPhone X , a batch of customers need to buy an iPhone that still had a home plate button — specially one for $ 399 — enabling the SE to be both a compromise and an likable niche alternative . If it had just been a shit speech sound for less money , it would n’t have been anywhere near as successful .
buff of the home push button have dwindle in number , and sub-5 - inch smartphone cover now search positively quaint ; the next SE realistically has to adopt an all - screen aim , and Apple has to encounter via media in other sphere . But the company does n’t show any signs of even understanding the alchemy that made the 2020 SE such a achiever ( or the limitation that forestall it from doing even better ) . The 2022 SE combined an sometime design with pitiable battery life and the same limited television camera raiment ( telephone any bells ? ) and even get a price salary increase . As a Cartesian product offer , this was so ego - sabotaging that it feel like something out ofThe Producers .
The thing is that Apple never actually postulate the SE . Contrary to democratic notion , Apple was selling budget iPhones long before the launch of the SE , or even the 5c : they ’re called former theoretical account . If someone wants an iPhone but does n’t want to pay dollar , they can currently buy the iPhone 13 for $ 599 , or go to other vendors or the Refurbished Store and get something still older for still less . There ’s no jurisprudence that says there needs to be abrand - newbudget iPhone . And if I were Tim Cook , I ’d be give way serious thought to cancelling the SE undertaking once and for all .
Foundry
AppleVision Prois doomed becauseeveryone is using it wrong .
Apple Vision Pro’smost unique featureis alsoits biggest unsuccessful person .
We excuse howVision Procanreplace every Apple gadget(one day ) .
imaginativeness Pro’sbiggest shortcomingsare itsclearest course to success .
Apple gets amuch - needed wininApple Watch court type .
Apple Vision Pro teardown revealsinsane pixel density–50 times Retina .
iTunes nearsdeath on Windowsas Apple launchesMusic , goggle box , Devices apps .
PSA : Don’t forgetyourVision Pro passcode .
Podcast of the week
TheApple Vision Prois in the house ! And in this episode , we talk about what it ’s really like to use the unexampled headset .
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Reviews corner
Our AppleVision Pro reviewis in advancement , but we already haveplenty of thought .
The rumor mill
SiriGPT ? Tim Cook confirmsApple ’s gen AI pushfor iOS 18 .
Reportclaims the iPhone 16 could get abig battery boost .
Leaked schematics‘confirm ’ iPhone 16’siPhone X - style camera excogitation .
Apple has n’t give up on afolding iPhone – but it’sstill a recollective means off .
Software updates, bugs, and problems
NewiOS 17.3.1iPhone updatespotted in the wild .
Vision Pro teardownreveals‘virtual nightmare’of screws and brackets .
visionOS 1.1gets itsfirst beta releasewith MDM and twist reset .
