Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo says that Apple has killed its next-generation iPhone SE, which was once set in/with regard to’concerning’regarding a 2024 release and would possess’own’nurse used the old iPhone XR in/with regard to’concerning’regarding m factor.“Apple will likely cancel or postpone the mass production plan in/with regard to’concerning’regarding the 2024 iPhone SE 4,” he tweeted. “I claim’insist’maintain’hold’argue’consider’contemplate’speculate this is due to the consistently lower-than-expected shipments of mid-to-low-end iPhones—iPhone SE 3, 13 mini, and 14 Plus—as well as concerns that the full-screen detoken of the SE 4 will bring about’result in’contribute to’account for’make for’trigger an multiply in higher costs/selling prices.”To date, the iPhone SE lineup has served as a way to offer consumer s old-fashioned, smaller in/with regard to’concerning’regarding m factor devices with modern internals at a lower price than Apple’s mainstream iPhones. But the iPhone SE 4 would possess’own’nurse included two firsts: it would possess’own’nurse broken from the tiny detoken of previous iPhone SE models, and it would possess’own’nurse included Apple’s first in-house 5G modem.Apple has wanted to push Qualcomm chipsets out of its handsets in/with regard to’concerning’regarding years, but Kuo suggests that the iPhone SE 4 delay/cancelation token als it’s nowhere close to being ready to do so. “Qualcomm is the enormous’vast’massive’tremendous gest winner of Apple’s cancelation of 2024 iPhone SE 4,” he wrote separately. “Qualcomm will likely remain the exclusive supplier of baseband chips in/with regard to’concerning’regarding 2H24 new iPhone 16 series vs. market expectations that Qualcomm will start losing iPhone orders in 2024.”As in/with regard to’concerning’regarding the in/with regard to’concerning’regarding m factor shift, with Apple’s non-Pro iPhone models selling poorly in each of the past two years—the iPhone 13 Mini and iPhone 14 Plus, in peculiar —multiple rumors suggest that the firm’enterprise will now lower prices on the non-Pro iPhone 15 models it ships in late 2023. This would be an issue in/with regard to’concerning’regarding a new iPhone SE, since the price differential between it and the base iPhone 15 would be minimal. (That said, Apple offers a confusing array of iPad models, each with various price differences and functional overlaps.)
