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From: badgolferman <REMOVETHISbadgolferman@gmail.com>
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)
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sms <scharf.steven@geemail.com> wrote:
> On 2/22/2025 3:38 AM, -hh wrote:
> 
> <snip>
> 
>> 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.