Today Apple is going to announce three new iPhones.
One of them should be a small form factor like the old SE.
Apple discontinued the iPhone SE at the tail end of 2018 and has stated that the next iOS update will not run on the old SE hardware.
I have a number of friends and family members who have the old SE, love the small form factor, and do not want a larger phone in their pockets, purses, and hands.
As a result, these people have been holding onto phones that have gotten a bit old and badly in need of an upgrade.
But more importantly in my view, if Apple wants to tightly control the hardware that iOS can run on (which obviously they do), then they should put a wide enough variety of hardware into the market to support their user base.
It is unlikely that any of my friends and family members are going to move to Android, where there is a wide variety of hardware form factors to choose from. The iOS lockin is very powerful.
So Apple doesn’t need to do this so much for business reasons. But I do think they should do this for other reasons.
