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Subject: Re: Apple tacitly admits their CPUs and new Modem are merely a
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Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2025 12:30:53 -0800
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On 2/22/2025 3:38 AM, -hh wrote:

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> 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.