Low sales numbers and a poorly performing 5G chip could be the reason why Apple has shelved plans for another iPhone SE.
It looks increasingly likely that we won’t get an iPhone SE 4 – and that has cast doubt on the entire future of the series, with apparent doubts over its popularity and its profitability causing Apple to reassess the status of the cheapest of the iPhones.
This comes from respected analyst Ming-Chi Kuo (opens in new tab) (via MacRumors (opens in new tab)), who is right more often than not when it comes to Apple predictions. Kuo says Apple has told its suppliers that the iPhone SE 4 won’t be launching in 2024 or indeed any year.
It’s not the most surprising development: there had already been rumors that the next version of the iPhone SE wasn’t guaranteed to appear, and it sounds as though the fate of the handset has now been sealed.
There’s a subplot here, which is that – according to Kuo – Apple was planning to use the iPhone SE 4 to debut its own 5G chip, developed in house.
