Apple iPhone SE Available on Apple Store Again

Re:Apple iPhone SE Available on Apple Store Again by geofft on Sunday March 24, 2019 @11:37PM (#19480159)

The iPhone SE is the smallest smartphone that gets security updates, of any platform. (And in 2010 or so it would have been bigger than any smartphone not being called a "phablet," so it's not so much that it's small as that it's the only reasonable-sized phone left in many people's opinions.)

If Apple's historical support practice keeps up, it'll remain in support until late 2020 or 2021.

Sent from my iPhone SE

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Re:Apple iPhone SE Available on Apple Store Again by captn3m0 on Monday March 25, 2019 @10:05AM (#19482451)

I really hope Apple supports it beyond that, especially if they don’t launch a alternative in the interim.

It certainly has a lot of compute to support future iOS releases.

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Re:Apple iPhone SE Available on Apple Store Again by damontal on Monday March 25, 2019 @08:44AM (#19481977)

5S doesn't get security updates any more?

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Re:Apple iPhone SE Available on Apple Store Again by geofft on Monday March 25, 2019 @12:04PM (#19483725)

Oh, it appears that it does, it's just worse hardware than the SE in the same form factor, and is actually discontinued.

I'm actually pretty surprised - that now means that the iPhone 5S has now gotten software updates for 5.5 years, which I think is a record.

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