John Siracusa

Even though if nobody uses it or whatever, just to say that the new baseline... I mean, they put thread radios in everything now, even though no one's using it for anything, right? Just to say every Apple product has a thread radio, and that will become important later, but you won't have to worry about it.

Even though if nobody uses it or whatever, just to say that the new baseline... I mean, they put thread radios in everything now, even though no one's using it for anything, right? Just to say every Apple product has a thread radio, and that will become important later, but you won't have to worry about it.

Ultra-wideband has been so foundational to every phone that they've sold, except for the lagging behind SEs. This year, when they're finally bringing it across most of the lines... To not have it have ultra-wideband seems like just family disunity that is... It's like Pennywise and Pound Foolish, right?

Ultra-wideband has been so foundational to every phone that they've sold, except for the lagging behind SEs. This year, when they're finally bringing it across most of the lines... To not have it have ultra-wideband seems like just family disunity that is... It's like Pennywise and Pound Foolish, right?

Whatever you saved, whatever power and space you saved leaving ultra-wideband is not worth the family disunity that it causes. And I guess we could jump to the big one here, which is the perfect example. This is... MagSafe. The 16e does not have MagSafe. Does that mean you can't wirelessly charge it?

Whatever you saved, whatever power and space you saved leaving ultra-wideband is not worth the family disunity that it causes. And I guess we could jump to the big one here, which is the perfect example. This is... MagSafe. The 16e does not have MagSafe. Does that mean you can't wirelessly charge it?

Oh, no, you can wirelessly charge it with Qi charging, but there are no magnets in the phone, so there's no MagSafe. It Qi charges, but no MagSafe. And you can put a MagSafe case on it, I suppose, if you buy a third-party one, although Apple's ones don't have it. But, boy, talk about a family, like, sacrificing family unity.

Oh, no, you can wirelessly charge it with Qi charging, but there are no magnets in the phone, so there's no MagSafe. It Qi charges, but no MagSafe. And you can put a MagSafe case on it, I suppose, if you buy a third-party one, although Apple's ones don't have it. But, boy, talk about a family, like, sacrificing family unity.

Now, I kind of get this because the magnets are probably surprisingly expensive and they do have thickness. But like an iPhone with the numbers 1-6 in the name that does not have MagSafe, part of the iPhone 16 family. I'm sorry, MagSafe was like the iPhone 12, right? Like this is not a new feature. but they put wireless charging up, but no Mac. MagSafe is one of the best features of the iPhone.

Now, I kind of get this because the magnets are probably surprisingly expensive and they do have thickness. But like an iPhone with the numbers 1-6 in the name that does not have MagSafe, part of the iPhone 16 family. I'm sorry, MagSafe was like the iPhone 12, right? Like this is not a new feature. but they put wireless charging up, but no Mac. MagSafe is one of the best features of the iPhone.

It's one of the best recent features they added to the phone to not put MagSafe on this phone. Again, I would sacrifice the screen for MagSafe. I would say, give me a worse screen. Give me an LCD screen just so I can get MagSafe because what matters more to people, the beautiful blacks of OLED on their phones or MagSafe?

It's one of the best recent features they added to the phone to not put MagSafe on this phone. Again, I would sacrifice the screen for MagSafe. I would say, give me a worse screen. Give me an LCD screen just so I can get MagSafe because what matters more to people, the beautiful blacks of OLED on their phones or MagSafe?

I feel like MagSafe will have a larger impact on people's lives just from making charging easier to be able to stick it to the phone mounts and cars and stuff. I just... This is a baffling feature set to me. And on top of all of this... Okay, so they did all these things that I think they shouldn't have done for Family Unity. But at least this phone's real cheap, right?

I feel like MagSafe will have a larger impact on people's lives just from making charging easier to be able to stick it to the phone mounts and cars and stuff. I just... This is a baffling feature set to me. And on top of all of this... Okay, so they did all these things that I think they shouldn't have done for Family Unity. But at least this phone's real cheap, right?

it's so much more expensive than the se that replaced now granted the se that it replaces was from 2022 had an a15 like i i get it wasn't it 400 bucks time marches on this is better technology it's going to be more expensive inflation yada yada like i i do see the price increase and as you noted marco like the marching up of the hundred dollars nice and uniform and make sense or whatever

it's so much more expensive than the se that replaced now granted the se that it replaces was from 2022 had an a15 like i i get it wasn't it 400 bucks time marches on this is better technology it's going to be more expensive inflation yada yada like i i do see the price increase and as you noted marco like the marching up of the hundred dollars nice and uniform and make sense or whatever

But my point is they didn't strip out these features and it's like, well, we had to do this to hit this really, really low price point. It's not really, really low. It's kind of what you would expect for this phone given the specs. But no MagSafe, no Ultra Wideband. is just really, I think it's the wrong call. I think it is sacrificing family.

But my point is they didn't strip out these features and it's like, well, we had to do this to hit this really, really low price point. It's not really, really low. It's kind of what you would expect for this phone given the specs. But no MagSafe, no Ultra Wideband. is just really, I think it's the wrong call. I think it is sacrificing family.

Unity is sacrificing sort of the standard feature set that we expect to be in phones. I think ultra wide band and especially mag safe are part of that base feature set. Wifi seven is not part of the base feature set, right? Millimeter wave, not part of that base feature set, but mag safe and ultra wide band. I feel like they are part of the base feature set and they're just not on this phone.

Unity is sacrificing sort of the standard feature set that we expect to be in phones. I think ultra wide band and especially mag safe are part of that base feature set. Wifi seven is not part of the base feature set, right? Millimeter wave, not part of that base feature set, but mag safe and ultra wide band. I feel like they are part of the base feature set and they're just not on this phone.