Apple explains why the iPhone 16e does not have MagSafe

The just lately unveiled iPhone 16e does not have MagSafe, and Apple has already defined that this has nothing to do with using its first in-house developed modem. So why did it occur?

Effectively, Apple says it determined to not equip the iPhone 16e with MagSafe as a result of “most individuals within the 16e’s audience solely cost their telephones by plugging them right into a charging cable”. This assertion allegedly comes from unnamed “Apple representatives” chatting with Daring Fireball’s John Gruber.

These representatives go on to assert that these individuals, those who’re going to purchase the iPhone 16e, “are inclined to not use inductive charging in any respect”. How Apple got here to this conclusion is unclear. Who Apple thinks these individuals are – additionally unclear.

What is fairly clear is that this was a cost-cutting measure, utilized to a telephone that is not even low cost, so it was clearly supposed to pad the corporate’s backside line above all else. And now Apple is making an attempt to decorate this up as one thing alongside the traces of “don’t be concerned, you do not want it anyway, since you were not going to make use of it”. That sounds extremely presumptuous and Huge Brother-y to us, in an “Apple is aware of what’s finest for you” kind of method.

Apple iPhone 16e

Supply