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Failed to connect to MySQL: (1203) User howardkn already has more than 'max_user_connections' active connectionsPath: ...!news.roellig-ltd.de!open-news-network.org!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!reader5.news.weretis.net!news.solani.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: badgolferman Newsgroups: misc.phone.mobile.iphone,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.advocacy Subject: Re: Apple tacitly admits their CPUs and new Modem are merely a marketing gimmick Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2025 21:00:04 -0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <76c59e31ac44677e6484fba540ef2ad7a65fb9ec@i2pn2.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2025 21:00:04 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: solani.org; logging-data="1218422"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@news.solani.org" User-Agent: NewsTap/5.5 (iPhone/iPod Touch) Cancel-Lock: sha1:KTxNT5lQN32u08bPlhROgyU7C4c= sha1:xvZOwtyPV3Wj4nyi5ADX9q3wuHk= X-User-ID: eJwNwgkRwEAIBDBLMCwcyOH1L6GdRMXY+sHUoPfL5STf14AQlqLpsotjB0YoDL/2pnWZ0QyxSLmRapu4+gBfuxZK Bytes: 2497 Lines: 26 sms wrote: > On 2/22/2025 3:38 AM, -hh wrote: > > > >> In any event, there's more things than just geekery to criticize the new >> iPhone 16E about.  Since the Apple modem is to not pay Qualcomm's high >> chip licensing costs, then why did the price jump up by so much?  For >> the $170 increase from $429 to $599 is a whopping +40%.  Tariffs? > > It's a certainty that the pricing reflected careful research of what the > believed would generate optimal profit. If they are wrong, they can > lower the price to $499 or $459, or whatever. > > The 16e is going to be purchased by a lot of corporations that provide > iPhones to their employees, and that see the $599 price as a good deal > because previously they were not forcing employees to take the SE, with > the smaller screen, and were paying more than $599 (or whatever > corporate price they negotiated). At my wife's company, a lot of her > colleagues took the SE despite being allowed to take a larger screen model. > I got a new corporate phone about four months ago and had the choice between SE, 14, 15 models and all their variants. I chose the regular 14 to match my personal phone because I didn’t want two different chargers (lightning, usb-c) at home, work, car.