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Apple's Shock iPhone Cancellation Makes Sense

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Gordon Kelly at Forbes is such a clown. Just go read his history of Forbes coverage of Apple. It's probably the worst coverage by anyone, of anything, in the entire tech industry.

"Shock iPhone Cancellation"? What a clown.

Perhaps, but the rumor is from Ming-Chi Kuo who has a pretty great track record with this kind of stuff.

I quickly searched but couldn’t find any records of Kuo speaking of a “spiritual successor to SE” or “cancellation of X” in Chinese. The closest I could find is a piece from January in which he speculated about Xs getting smaller and a new line between Xs and Xs Max with cheaper LCD (than OLED).

The author is blowing Kuo’s predictions way out of proportion.

Just some fool who paid like $1500 to post articles on Forbes.com. Another contributor article masquerading as news.

It's legitimately hard to understand what is actually happening through the bombastic writing in the article. That alone makes me question its legitimacy.

Agreed, once I saw the name, I knew the article was going to be of poor quality

That said, I am excited about the prospect of a new iPhone SE (with A12, preferably).

I just switched from an iPad Mini 2 to the current (5th) generation and the performance difference is staggering.

Holy shit forbes is bad: autoplay videos that sticks with you as you scroll through the page, which blocks a third of the text content. And the close button doesn't appear until a few seconds later.

You got off easy. I had, in addition to all the crap you mentioned, an ad that took up 3/4 the height of my browser, a pop-up for a newsletter signup, and another pop-up for push notifications.

If Forbes doesn't have the most user-hostile website on the Internet, they're runner-up.

Gross... You need to block those.

I'm really happy about the return of the SE sized phone. I had been planning buy used SE's if I needed a replacement of my current one. I've got an iPad Mini that I can take with me if I want a bigger screen. When I don't, it's really nice to have a compact and capable phone that you don't need two hands to use.

Still made, watch for specials: https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MP7W2LL/A/iphone-se-32gb-...

Hell yes give me a new small iPhone

I'm just not sure if 5.4 is small enough. I'd have to hold it alongside my SE, but I'm not really interested in anything larger than the SE, whose battery I had replaced late last year, and hopefully will last me until late 2021 at least.

If they increased the height of it to 5.0" from 4.87" it works out. I think that would be almost imperceptible. And a great phone size. It will probably be a decent amount thinner too more than likely. Probably 6.5 mm

Bigger iPhone let them put in a much bigger battery to increase battery life. Not sure the smaller form factor can keep up anymore. Hopefully they drop the resolution significantly to reduce energy consumption?

The SE is thicker so there’s plenty of space for a big battery.

My first iPhone is a 5. Then SE. Definitely the best iPhone in terms of quality and spec per inch

If they make another same size I'm there

So this is just wild unfounded speculation, right? Have there actually been any validated leaks?

A 5.4 inch premium phone will capture a lot of market, but I think Apple is missing out by not pushing even smaller. Apple should aim for smaller than the SE.

What non sense he is talking about? Can someone point to the actual quote from Kuo, and by cancelling iPhone XS do they simply mean the next iPhone XS will have new name (as it does every year) and maybe a little smaller like the SE? Certainly doesn't sound as exciting when you put it that. Author seems very desperate for clicks on this one. Or maybe he's being sarcastic?

The SE was a great phone size, but I don’t think I want to go back down to it. I DEFINITELY don’t want to go up to the max.

I hope this rumor is wrong, but given who it comes from that’s not a big possibility.

Hell, after going from the iPhone 7+ to the iPhone XS (didn’t want to give up 3D Touch or the telephoto camera) I really don’t want to use anything smaller. I really miss the extra width of the 7+ that made typing in landscape mode usable instead of comically pointless.

I’m interested to see where the new 6.1” model lands in terms of features since Apple seems to be killing 3D Touch altogether, it may end up being my upgrade of choice in 2020.

I don’t have much context for this article, but I was put off from the moment I read the bizarre click bait title of the links in the first sentence...

Just bought a used 32GB SE on ebay for $80. Best deal on a phone in ages. I'd definately be down for a all-screen SE-sized device

I misread this for a minute and thought the 5.4” iPhone was coming out THIS year. Immediately started thinking sell vs trade-in, stand in line on launch day vs order it shipped, etc.

Nope, my mistake. Smaller iPhone coming in 2020. Ok, I’ll wait. My SE will be fine until then.

iPhone 8s, please. I’m dead serious.

Clickbait article, why is it here?

Flagged. This article and his past writings are so poor without any nuances. They sound like rants.

apple cancelled an iphone? some context please

but will it have a headphone jack?

I'll predict probably no, and also it will be the usb-c jack vs lightning.

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