Re: Apple tacitly admits their CPUs and new Modem are merely a marketing gimmick

sms <scharf.steven@geemail.com> wrote:

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.
 

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.