The iPhone SE was the best phone Apple ever made, and now it’s dead

Re:The iPhone SE was the best phone Apple ever made, and now... by AlexandrB on Friday September 14, 2018 @09:44PM (#17992482)

> They have way more data than either of us do, and the market has spoken: there is not enough demand for small phones to justify a separate SKU.

Let's not pretend this is some natural result of "the market". The UX of most iOS apps, including Apple's, has been steadily getting bloated with bigger buttons, bigger labels, more padding in text fields, and reams of whitespace. This is personally annoying, but manageable on the bigger, newer phones. On iPhone SE it means that many apps can be maddening to use - with only a little bit of content visible on screen in some situations.

iOS 7 on the iPhone 5 form factor was great. iOS 12, not so much. Apple clearly sees no future for the smaller phones and their UI designers consider them an afterthought. It's little wonder that only diehards are willing to put up with this kind of UX compromise.

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Re:The iPhone SE was the best phone Apple ever made, and now... by erikpukinskis on Saturday September 15, 2018 @12:35AM (#17993006)

I moatly use mobile web, and maybe 2 screens of common apps. The SE works great for me. Every now and then something is a bit off, but I’ll just ditch the rare site/app that doesn’t work right. There’s plenty to do in this life.

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Re:The iPhone SE was the best phone Apple ever made, and now... by AlexandrB on Saturday September 15, 2018 @04:03PM (#17995809)

I'm specifically thinking of the Music and Messages apps which show very little content while typing a search or message. It's hard to reply to a set of text messages when it feels like you're reading them through a keyhole and typing anything scrolls you back down to the bottom. Music is just as bad and shows ~1 result while the keyboard is up during search.

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