Oh well -- you can still buy the smaller, discontinued iPhone SE on eBay for around $250, Brett Arends writes.
Apple’s new iPhone SE2 is stunning. The slim, elegant successor to the defunct SE clocks in at less than 5 inches long and 2½ inches wide. It’s 40% smaller and lighter than a flagship iPhone such as the XR and XS Max. But, thanks to the new edge-to-edge design, this pocketable little phone still boasts a screen size of around 5 inches.
There are plenty of Apple fans who would like to see a return to a form factor like that of the SE2. The original SE, which was itself modeled on the older iPhone 4 and 5, was one of the more gorgeous phones ever made, in the view of its ardent fans. They credited it with an elegance and convenience very dissimilar to the big new phones.
Some calculations show that a new SE using the same edge-to-edge screen technology as the latest iPhones could fit a screen of about 5 inches in diameter into the same body size as the old SE. If 15% of the population say they want a small phone, probably only about 10% would actually buy one, he suggests. “Apple really built itself on scale,” he says. “They don’t like 10%.” As people now typically replace their phones every three years, the actual size of the potential market probably just isn’t big enough for Apple, he adds.
And why should Apple make an SE2 anyway? The company hardly wants its higher-end customers trading down to a smaller, presumably cheaper phone. And the bigger your phone, the more likely you are to pay for more media subscriptions.
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