Speculation, estimation, educated guess, for many years now Apple seems to like rounded rectangles & making their electronics thinner, or yeah, & giving Qualcomm the cold shoulder, Intel too, Apple Silicon with their TSMC ASML partnership exclusive 1st tier supply agreement, that means peak power efficiency needed to make the iPhone Air a reality.
$599 for 16e not cheap with its lesser camera, lack of MagSafe replace with first gen Qi careful to align it just right or it will not charge & warm up (bad for it) or chare painfully slowly, actually just use the USB-C, that is way better, cables are always better than wireless, study electrical engineering if you really want a deep dive about why, or do like me & become a HAM radio technician & it will probably make sense; think signal integrity, current flow, noise ratio, electromagnetic coil coupling in magnetic transformers.
iPhone SE from 3 years ago $429 was an easy recommendation for people who are not tech nerds like me. This withstanding that standard iPhone 14 my daily, & Meg still rocking that 12 mini with Dexcom G7 connected, though since even grannies use Dexcom CGM such works with even iPhone 6 or later, though speaking of slow steady driving elderly people who don't care about flagship high end smartphones, the SE was a slam dunk apple ecosystem FaceTime call easy to recommend for anyone phone, but at $599 + sales tax, that is almost $700 for the base model iPhone in 2025, that is not affordable by anyone's standard when some $399 android phones beat 16e in almost every measurable way, though we are fully into iOS Apple silicon hardware now, though I am typing this on my windows gaming laptop because I am 41 years old & play Counter Strike 2 sometimes via Steam App :)
My gaming desktop was turned into a crypto mining rig, but a malfunction in a water heater pipe leaking killed that $3000 computer & its graphics cards, all water damaged, the mainboard so corroded its almost like art worth framing for the wall with green copper patina galore. M2 MacBook Pro my other laptop & Meg rocks the M2 Air. We each have The Last Intel 6 core iMac from 2019 Costco sale price, though Meg's disused in storage, I use mine sparingly as the head unit for our F1 laser engraver & laser printer. Did I mention that I love lasers as a technology, directed energy weapons, fiber optic high-speed internet & much more with optical photonics, such as fiber lasers, diode pumped solid state lasers, gas ionized lasers, masers shooting microwaves like a laser to knock out drone cluster weapons deployed by CCP at America in WWIII.
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