Apple announced the new iPhone that gave many Apple-owners deja vu. The new iPhone titled iPhone SE is much smaller than the last iPhones released which were the iPhone 6 and the iPhone 6 Plus. The announcement about the new iPhone was given on March 21 in Cupertino, and it left a lot of apple customers very confused because the new phone is nearly identical to the iPhone that was released in 2013.
The iPhone SE will hit stores March 31 along with a new iPad called iPad Pro that Apple with also be releasing on that date. This is the first phone put out by Apple that have gotten smaller rather than enlarged. Tim Cook started the new technology unveiling the announcement with a tribute to the forty years of Apple. A video played showing all of the progress of the company since is started in 1976. April 1 will be Apple’s 40th birthday. The speech started on a good note, but many people in the audience weren’t as happy when the new products were revealed.
The criticism of the new phone has outweighed the support so far. Many are angered over the downgrade from the iPhone 6 Plus with a screen of 5.5 inches to the iPhone SE with only 4 inches of screen. The iPhone SE criticism has gone as far as people making parodies of the announcement. B-Teezy and the Apple Byte crew spoofed the announcement by using the Drake Hotline Bling music video.
Even Jimmy Kimmel got in on the trend of mocking Apple’s announcement. Kimmel sent his camera crew out on the streets and had an interviewer give people two Apple phones. The interviewer told the people that one phone was the iPhone 5 and the other was the iPhone SE, but they were actually two of the exact same iPhone 5s and people made up differences.
The new phone is very popular in China currently. Apple has received more than 3.4 million pre-orders for the iPhone SE through retailers in China. 1.3 million of those pre-orders were for the gold iPhone SE making gold the most favored color for the new phone.
The new Apple gadget is the iPhone 5s combined with the iPhone 6 Plus. Most of the features of the iPhone 6 Plus will be found in the iPhone SE, which is modeled nearly exactly like the iPhone 5s. The latest phone is said to be faster than the recent phones Apple has put out. Battery life for this neoteric device will be better than the iPhone 6 Plus and the iPhone 5s. The iPhone has FaceTime HD, live photos, and an improved camera. Regardless of all the online criticism they have received, Apple says the iPhone SE has been very popular according to all the pre-orders, and they can’t wait for the customers to receive their phones.