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maybe it's an expectation problem you guys were expecting the new iPhone 16e

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the spiritual successor of the iPhone SE lineup to be killer value at an amazing

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low price I was expecting Apple to hold

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out on us and charge a lot of money so I

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got what I wanted this is the 16e it's

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kind of like an iPhone 16 but not quite you could say it's

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16e anywh who in terms of included accessor it comes with a USB ctoc cable

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only USB 2.0 speeds here though the phone only supports USB 2 so that's not

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really going to be an extra problem as well as a Sim removal tool that is as

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long as you're in a region where you still get a SIM tray and that is it you

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don't even get Apple stickers anymore but if I'm going to praise other

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manufacturers for having recyclable packaging I've got to do it here even

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this little slip right here appears to be made out of like a glassine paper so

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that's really nice to see thank you apple good job of course I'm not sure if

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I'm going to be able to say the same thing about the iPhone 16e itself unlike

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previous SE models it uses a very

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similar ID to Apple's current Flagship products so right here I've got my daily

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driver 16 plus and you can see boy is it

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ever similar on the bottom we get a speaker Grill and microphone Grill on

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this side we get our lock button ah yes

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missing however is the camera button though how much I use mine I can't say

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that I think that's going to be a problem for you because right over on the other side we've got our SIM tray

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maybe as well as our action button and

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volume rocker SL camera button that's

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right it doesn't have a half press but you can activate the camera with a

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button if you really want to which I never do anyway because it makes the

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device kind of shake at the top we get a whole lot of nothing and then at the

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back we get the first big difference the

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camera and by camera I really do mean camera camera just one Apple's using

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what they're calling their Fusion camera system here which is supposed to serve

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the role of a dual camera system but with a single sensor and single lens and

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there's kind of a solid argument to be made for this it's got a 48 megapixel

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sensor which is a lot more than we've seen on previous budget oriented iPhones

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and for that matter a lot more than we've seen on regular iPhones going back

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to the iPhone 14 and before and when you

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factor in the much more powerful Hardware including a current gen

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state-of-the-art neural processor in this thing I'm expecting the results to

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be very compelling oh already oh man oh

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man I forgot I do use my camera button I

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exclusively use it to launch the camera because I come from Android where you

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can double press the power button on many phones in order to launch your

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camera oh I would miss that I have to wake my screen then I have to long press

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on this also that's not working right now for some reason they always manage

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to get so close for me don't they what was I talking about ah yes the camera

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let's do a couple quick test shots shall we oh wow oh what uh Apple you doing

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okay there bud that is not good see my understanding from the keynote was that

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this was like the same camera system but just a single lens is that not the case

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dude dude are other people talking about

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this is this a thing did I just did I hold it wrong hold on no no no hold on

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hold on maybe it's just smudgy okay here we go here we go quick camera test oh

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yeah oh buddy no no it's going to nail it that looks like crap look at how much

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better the skin tones are on the 16

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plus I wouldn't say that it's any worse in terms of clarity though so maybe

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maybe this is just I need to take a couple shots and it's a sampling issue

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that seems darn near identical other than that this one looks a little bit on

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the warmer side it is a smaller sensor okay well that would explain why it's a

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little bit noisier and it struggles with color under darker conditions but uh

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they also support the same spatial audio recording on this one compared to the

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regular 16 family that's pretty cool to

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see but it should be noted that because

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there is only a single camera element that acts as both your wide and your

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telephoto albeit at a lower resolution

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you're not going to be able to record any spatial video doesn't look

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meaningfully smoother here

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yeah it's still an iPhone buddy even with a bit of a smaller sensor okay

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how's that telephoto go away what is the point of having oh my

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God see this is the kind of thing I'm talking about what does a bar along the

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bottom mean Apple Andy you're a lifelong Apple user what does the bar along the

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bottom mean in the interface return to home it means return to

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home that is what that means don't put

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the bar there if the bar doesn't do the

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thing so funny watching people argue

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with me on Wow when I was saying that iOS 18 is buggy and they're like no

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within like two days I had like videos

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of bizarre bugs to show them here's another one it happens all the time just

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like I segue to our sponsor all the time

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say to pull out my old note 9 because

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this is a similar generation device to what many folks are going to be

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upgrading from if they have like an old iPhone SE or something like that I mean

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yeah that's that's markedly better okay I think it might have just been shotto

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shot variance the differences in like skin tone capture and exposure like it's

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noisier on the 16e it's more natural this time than this time for some reason

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so whatever in conclusion it's no iPhone 16 but it's

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better than what you had already and it's not that far off if all you do is

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take the occasional picture what about the screen though this is another area

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where it falls short of the regular iPhone 16 family instead of being able

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to reach lofty Heights like up to 2,000

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nits in HDR it is limited to about 1,200

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nits in practice though I'm not expecting this to make a huge difference

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in content consumption since most HDR content is mastered for around a

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thousand nits at least so far today oh

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yeah buddy here we go well it may only be 60 HZ just like the regular versions

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of the iPhone 16 which is going to turn off a number of buyers but in terms of

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the content enjoyment experience if I'm not running anything that goes higher

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than 60 frames per second it looks great

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and in our testing managed to reach about the same levels of peak brightness

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that Apple advertised it did fall a little bit short but not in a way that

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would raise serious alarm bells for us since we're talking about the screen a

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lot of folks were disappointed to find out that Apple will not be bringing back

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a more mini form factor obviously it's

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smaller compared to a plus model but compared to the regular iPhone 16 it's

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not a huge difference it's 6.1 in and about the same body size as a regular 16

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or 16 Pro I'm holding the pro in my hand

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so you can see that uh yeah the bezels are a little bit on the thicker side but

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in my opinion that's not the kind of thing that is that important to

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day-to-day use like you still get ip68

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water resistance you still get Apple's really tough ceramic shield glass I

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don't think any of the 16e detractors are going to be too concerned about that

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no the big issues are the lack of their Ultra wideband chip which makes it a lot

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easier to find missing air tags and I believe it's also supported by the

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airpods Pro 2 USBC charging case right yeah yep but what it doesn't have is the

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alignment magnets built into it so that you can use mag safe accessories be they

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portable battery Banks or Car mounts or

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whatever the case may be I mean they're really useful in a production environment just being able to clip your

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phone onto a camera rig there are workarounds for this you can get a case

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for your phone that has the magnets in it that will allow you to put a 16e onto

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a MAG safe compatible device but it won't charge any faster and it is a bit

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of a downer that it's not included in the device by default but as someone who

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lives my life without magsafe I don't actually find that it is in complete

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without being able to stick my phone to things and I think some of the stuff we

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get in return is pretty compelling we get silicon and RAM that is on par with

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Apple's current Flagship and I posed this question during our podcast and no

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one was able to come up with an answer I asked hey look I know it's $600 and it's

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missing these features but at this price can you show me another phone that has a

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flagship Cutting Edge Flagship s so in it for

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$5.99 they were not able to this has a 3

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nmet processor in it yeah they cut off one GPU core but when you look at the

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performance numbers you're getting almost an iPhone 16 in everything but

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gaming where it still performs quite well at what is higher but still the

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lowest entry level price for a brand new iPhone what that means is that over the

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long term as Apple continues to provide software updates for this family the 16e

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is not going to be at a disadvantage it even has has the same amount of system

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memory which should allow it to run all the same Apple intelligence features

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that you get from the rest of its siblings that doesn't mean there's no

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compromises uh while the body is the same as the rest of the family the

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dynamic Island goes away and we get the ugly classic Notch I don't use it that

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much I do like to be able to access media that's playing in the background

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whether it's video or audio but is it that much more work to just open up the

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now playing app in the control center I mean I mean it's yeah it is more and

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that's kind of a Down I guess I also use it for timers set a

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10-minute timer and you can like your your little you know timer will go away

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and it'll kind of like be up there that's pretty cool um talking to the

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folks here some of them use it for travel as well as for sports updates and

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the like it was not life-changing for me though so make of that what you will I

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know not everyone's going to agree with me about this but what I think we can

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agree on is that the fact that the battery life of the budget iPhone is

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about on par with the regular one is an absolute plus now it should be noted

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that we had some issues with our battery life testing it seemed to be interrupted

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by UNT turnoff notifications and whatnot

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so we can't give you an exact number but what we can say is that the inconsistent

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numbers that we got were the same between the regular iPhone 16 and the

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iPhone 16e at least in the same range

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and part of this apple claims is due to the efficiency gains that they found

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with their new C1 modem this is the payoff for Apple spending $1 billion

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on most of Intel's modem development

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efforts back what was it like five or six years ago and the good news is that

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the consensus for now is that while it doesn't support millimeter wave so

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you're not going to get any of those like ridiculously Benchmark busting

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speeds in Den cities the regular

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reception is about as good or I think Dave 2D actually got better performance

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of the C1 than the traditional Qualcomm modem it doesn't support Wi-Fi 6E or

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Wi-Fi 7 which personally I find to be a pretty big deal not because I need to

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download a video faster to my phone but because that means no support for 6 GHz

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which is way way lower interference and is a much better experience somewhere

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like a crowded apartment building but it does support Bluetooth 5.4 just like the

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regular 16 family and has Apple's emergency SOS satellite functionality

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which is kind of a big deal so bottom line I understand why a lot of people

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are upset about the price $600 at the entry level that's a freaking ton of

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money but the one thing Apple does

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really well regardless of whether it's a flagship device or their entry-level

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device is support it via software and when you look at the six to seven years

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that you're going to get out of this thing if you buy it right out of the

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gate what are you paying for your phone eight bucks a month you know everything

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is a subscription world and how much you're going to use this thing it

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doesn't seem impossible to justify there are a lot worse values out there like

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man it was frustrating hearing from the Android Fanboys guys I you I love you

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and everything but like when you tell me yeah this Android is like $450 and it

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has like a 4 nmet chip that's like almost as good and it's like yeah but it

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isn't and that phone gets three years of

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Android updates when we look at total cost of

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ownership over the lifetime of the device if you're are a non- Enthusiast

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you got to remember who this is targeting you're a non- Enthusiast who's going to used this thing for years and

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years and years that software support is more important than saving a couple

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