John Siracusa

Much to my personal consternation, we'll just keep selling the old technologies for as long as possible. Uh, but when you have this type of transition where it's like, we had a long time in this period where we had like a button on the front of it and LCD screens or whatever, and then the iPhone 10 came along and here's the new era.

Much to my personal consternation, we'll just keep selling the old technologies for as long as possible. Uh, but when you have this type of transition where it's like, we had a long time in this period where we had like a button on the front of it and LCD screens or whatever, and then the iPhone 10 came along and here's the new era.

It is somewhat nice and something that I think a lot of people were looking forward to with the quote unquote new iPhone SE to sort of get all of the iPhones across most of the important lines.

It is somewhat nice and something that I think a lot of people were looking forward to with the quote unquote new iPhone SE to sort of get all of the iPhones across most of the important lines.

they all don't have a home button they all have oled screens they all are like normal quote unquote normal iphone size right to try to make it so that like there's no there's not this bifurcation of like well here's the current modern iphones and then if you like the old stuff you can still buy one of those weird ones and this year they got pulled across the line now do they get pulled all the way across the line not really because this one has a notch and not the dynamic island because that's the line it hasn't dragged across the dynamic island line yet but

they all don't have a home button they all have oled screens they all are like normal quote unquote normal iphone size right to try to make it so that like there's no there's not this bifurcation of like well here's the current modern iphones and then if you like the old stuff you can still buy one of those weird ones and this year they got pulled across the line now do they get pulled all the way across the line not really because this one has a notch and not the dynamic island because that's the line it hasn't dragged across the dynamic island line yet but

But still, if you look at this phone, as you noted, 6.1 inch screen. It is almost exactly the same size as an iPhone 16. It's 0.1 millimeter narrower and 0.7 millimeter shorter than an iPhone 16. It's got an OLED screen, 1200 nits peak instead of 1600 or whatever. 60 hertz is not promotion or whatever.

But still, if you look at this phone, as you noted, 6.1 inch screen. It is almost exactly the same size as an iPhone 16. It's 0.1 millimeter narrower and 0.7 millimeter shorter than an iPhone 16. It's got an OLED screen, 1200 nits peak instead of 1600 or whatever. 60 hertz is not promotion or whatever.

But like what people, I think a lot of people were hoping for with this is like now finally the new SE, it's not like a different, weird, worse product. And finally there is a family cohesion and resemblance. And when designing a product line, I think it's short-sighted to ditch stuff like ultra-wideband because...

But like what people, I think a lot of people were hoping for with this is like now finally the new SE, it's not like a different, weird, worse product. And finally there is a family cohesion and resemblance. And when designing a product line, I think it's short-sighted to ditch stuff like ultra-wideband because...

and this is part of the Tim Cook philosophy, every year you keep selling one of your products that doesn't have a thing, it means that doesn't become like the baseline for your product. Oh, you have an iPhone? Well, I know you can use this cool Find My feature. It'll point an arrow to your Apple TV remote in your couch. Oh, you can't do that. But I just got a new iPhone this year.

and this is part of the Tim Cook philosophy, every year you keep selling one of your products that doesn't have a thing, it means that doesn't become like the baseline for your product. Oh, you have an iPhone? Well, I know you can use this cool Find My feature. It'll point an arrow to your Apple TV remote in your couch. Oh, you can't do that. But I just got a new iPhone this year.

Yeah, but you got the weird one that doesn't have this. So when I look at the omissions, I say, Does this unnecessarily prolong a lack of unity in the line for a feature that you could otherwise tout as, like, the baseline? Every iPhone has Wi-Fi. Every iPhone has cellular. Every iPhone has an OLED screen. Every iPhone has Face ID. Whatever, like, the baseline you want to be.

Yeah, but you got the weird one that doesn't have this. So when I look at the omissions, I say, Does this unnecessarily prolong a lack of unity in the line for a feature that you could otherwise tout as, like, the baseline? Every iPhone has Wi-Fi. Every iPhone has cellular. Every iPhone has an OLED screen. Every iPhone has Face ID. Whatever, like, the baseline you want to be.

The Tim Cook philosophy... makes that baseline constantly be dragged behind you by many years. And people who are interested in technology and are of my, you know, of the mindset that I have for wanting it to be a rising tide that lifts all boats.

The Tim Cook philosophy... makes that baseline constantly be dragged behind you by many years. And people who are interested in technology and are of my, you know, of the mindset that I have for wanting it to be a rising tide that lifts all boats.

I don't want to see older stuff being sold for a long time because every year they keep selling it is another year that we have to deal with it still being existence. And you can't just assume that everybody has this cool feature. It becomes a question of what exact model you have.

I don't want to see older stuff being sold for a long time because every year they keep selling it is another year that we have to deal with it still being existence. And you can't just assume that everybody has this cool feature. It becomes a question of what exact model you have.

And so for ultra wide band, I look at it and I say, how much money, space, and power did you save with that specific thing? I would understand if this phone had an LCD screen more than dropping ultra wide band because the screen is the most expensive component in the phone. Is the ultra-wideband chip saving you that much time and energy?

And so for ultra wide band, I look at it and I say, how much money, space, and power did you save with that specific thing? I would understand if this phone had an LCD screen more than dropping ultra wide band because the screen is the most expensive component in the phone. Is the ultra-wideband chip saving you that much time and energy?