Apple unveils iPhone 16e, new Studio Display rumors, Siri delays
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🗓️ 20 February 2025
⏱️ 88 minutes
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Benjamin and Chance discuss the newly announced iPhone 16e, some peculiarities in feature omissions, and exactly what market a lower-cost iPhone actually serves. There’s also exciting new rumors about a second-generation Studio Display, and more doubts about whether Apple will be able to deliver Siri intelligence features in the short-term.
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Links
- Apple debuts iPhone 16e: A powerful new member of the iPhone 16 family
- iPhone 16e vs iPhone 14
- Apple launches new iPhone 16e: Here's everything you need to know
- iPhone 16e has a binned A18 chip – but what does that mean?
- iPhone 16e camera lacks latest-generation Photographic Styles
- Apple reportedly launching refreshed Studio Display 'by 2026'
- Apple may finally be updating the Mac display that it finally released in 2022
- Rumor: Apple developing 90Hz display tech for iPad Air, Studio Display, and iMac
- Gurman: Apple 'exploring' search advertising in Apple Maps
- Siri with promised Apple Intelligence upgrades may not be fully ready until iOS 18.5
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | So literally, may I have like five minutes after we stopped recording last week, |
| 0:04.4 | Tim Cook took to Twitter to say that Apple would have a special launch on Wednesday, February 19th, |
| 0:09.9 | to introduce the newest member of the Apple family. |
| 0:13.2 | Did you think there was ever a chance that that newest member of the Apple family meant anything other than a new iPhone SE slash iPhone 16E? |
| 0:21.2 | No. |
| 0:22.4 | People read into that wording to forecast that it might be the rumored smart home hub |
| 0:28.1 | or a smart camera or something in that category, but I never bought into that. |
| 0:32.4 | I think Apple primed the pump with the Mac event at the end of last year, right? |
| 0:38.7 | And that was also announced via a tweet from Greg Josriac, |
| 0:43.7 | where it was MacTacular, whatever, you know, |
| 0:46.2 | whatever stupid word he said at the time. |
| 0:48.6 | And I think on that one, they hashtag the Apple event, right? |
| 0:52.2 | Yeah. |
| 0:53.5 | And then you had the three days of, we had the Mac Mini and the IMac update and then the |
| 0:58.6 | MacBrett Pros with M4. |
| 1:02.0 | And that was one day you said it was three products total. |
| 1:05.2 | This time around, if you only looked at it from a distance, it kind of looked at the same |
| 1:09.5 | thing where Timpuk tweeted, |
| 1:11.1 | oh, you know, tune in or, you know, we're going to introduce a new member of the family. |
| 1:15.7 | But I think they were very particular in hashtagging it Apple launch, which heavily implied to me |
| 1:22.8 | that this was a smaller scale affair. And I guess you could read into the welcome to the family, |
| 1:29.6 | a new product category, like the Home Hub thing. |
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