Apple dares users to fix 'budget' iPhone 16e themselves Apple has launched a new budget iPhone. Rather than discussing specifications or the price hike, the real question is whether the company's latest and cheapest can be repaired. Terrors of the Torx screw iFixit tore Apple's iPhone 16e apart and found good news and bad. First, the bad news. Besides the price hike, which takes …
More fool you.
I've been using 2nd hand phones for well over a decade, as have my kids and parents. Throw in a couple of iPads and all my PC's for close on 15 years.
Never had any issues.
But feel free to keep buying new, im going need a replacement for this 6 year old Huawei at some point.
I only buy 2nd hand. Well, because the depreciation is ungodly severe! I still use the 64GB iPhone SE that I bought used for $100 in 2017.
(New phones still don’t have FLIR. My $100 iPhone has FLIR. New phones don’t do anything new or different, or even as good as my old phone. Sorry, just stating the facts of the matter!)
I would be be using mine still (purchased far more recently) for work. But it hasn't bee usable with company portal for six months. Since I need two instances of company portal, I need two work devices the second is an iPod touch 7. These provided a very good solution to the 2 device requirement, same size (in cases) same UI same peripherals, and fine in pockets. Two modern Apples to do the same job are too expensive and far too big. So currently I have a Jelly Star and the iPod is still able to use Teams for the second company.
Hopefully Microsoft will fix that limitation, before the iPod becomes unusable on Teams too.
>It's too difficult to verify the integrity of the software.
For demon rectangles, the software is totally compromised whether it's new or refurbished, as all of them run proprietary malware that spies on you and has backdoors.
(Not many people go looking for these proprietary backdoors, but they have been found; https://redmine.replicant.us/projects/replicant/wiki/SamsungGalaxyBackdoor).
If the devices ran free software, you could just format any storage mediums completely and install GnuPG verified free software onto it and know it's safe, but of course not.
...There's no MagSafe, a baffling omission that will irritate consumers using wireless charging...
So wait - no MagSafe, or no MagSafe and no wireless charging ?
One is fixable with a case which probably everybody and their brother will be releasing soon, the other is a no go on a $600 phone (unless it's a Sony but these guys are nuts anyway).
"Do the SE / mini and they'll sell a mountain of them"
It's a common opinion, but the actual fact is that both the SE and the Mini are poor sellers - the discounted previous year's iPhone usually sells much better than them.
You could argue that this has a lot to do with Apple's pricing model rather than the devices, but that's just how Apple is and they're not going to change.
Apple has traditionally kept the low end phone around for a couple years and dropped prices by $100 each year.
I expect when iPhone 17 comes out that ALL of the iPhone 16 line announced in September goes away (something which has never happened before) and the 16e fills the slot of "last year's phone" that the iPhone 15 currently does in their price list (and some years they've gone two years back and would have had the iPhone 14 also)
Then next spring when 17e comes out 16e goes to $499. Then when 18e comes out the 16e goes to $399 (which was where the SE line started) and they keep three 'e' phones for sale at the same time from then on.
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