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

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.