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I only wanted one thing in 2018: a new iPhone SE. By failing to provide him with Apple seems to have quietly put the model to pasture – and for that I curse them eternally. Because it was the best phone the company has ever made.
If you were one of the many who left the SE in 2015, when it started, that's understandable. The iPhone 6S was the last and the most powerful, and of course corrected some of the problems that Apple had wanted to present with the new design of the 6. But for me, the SE was perfectly adapted .
See, I've always loved the design of the iPhone that started with the 4. This memorable phone is perhaps better memorized to be left in a bar before the exit and leak by Gizmodo – this is shame, for once the product worthy of The sumptuous unveiling of Apple now confers to all devices it comes out.
The 4 has established a brand new aesthetic industrial design, immediately recognizable and very practical. The smooth, rounded edges and back of the original stainless steel iPhone (probably the second best Apple phone) and the jellybean-esques 3G and 3GS are gone.
In place of these soft curves, there were hard lines and uncompromising geometry: a metal belt ran along the edge, standing out from the glass sides by the slightest step. It has highlighted and highlighted the black glass of the screen and the bezel, producing a specular outline in any angle.
The camera was recessed and the sub-rinse of the home button (RIP), fully contained in the body, making the device perfectly flat in front and at the front. back. Meanwhile, the side buttons came out boldly. Volume in bold, engraved circles; the mute switch is easy to find but impossible to inadvertently activate; the power button perfectly placed for an index that reaches. Note that all these features are directly related to the ease of use: make things easier, better, more accessible, while being attractive and consistent as parts of the same object.
Compared to the iPhone 4, every other phone, including the new Samsung Galaxy S's "iPhone killer," was an inexpensive plastic bag, with inconsistent design or, at best, professional quality. And do not think I speak as a fan of Apple; I was not an iPhone user at the time. In fact, I probably still used my beloved G1 – talk about beauty and the beast!
The design was solid enough to survive the initially delicate transition to a longer screen in the 5, and with this generation, it also gained the improved rear side that mitigated the phone's annoying tendency to … break down well.
The iPhone 5S gray two-color does not leave room for improvement. And after 4 years, maybe it was time to refresh things a bit. Unfortunately, what Apple finally did is subtract any personality from the device while adding only screen space.
The 6 was just ugly for me. This recalled the plethora of boring Android phones at the time – simply a quality superior to that of others, no different. The 6S was just as ugly, and the 7 to 8 somehow banished any design that stood out, while reversing some practical measures by allowing for a bigger and bigger camera hump and losing the headphone jack . The X, at least, seemed a little different.
But to get back to the subject, it's after the 6S that Apple had introduced the SE. Although it means by name "Special Edition", the name was also a nod to the Macintosh SE. Ironically, given the original meaning of "System Expansion", the new SE was the opposite: essentially an iPhone 6S in the body of a 5S, with an improved camera, a sensor Touch ID and a processor. The move was probably designed as a kind of lifeboat for users who still could not bring themselves to adopt the radically redesigned and significantly larger new model.
It would take time, it seems, to convert these people, who rarely buy first-generation Apple products and prefer novelty to ease of use. So why not put them to sleep a bit during this difficult transition?
The SE has appealed not only to the nostalgic and neophobic, but simply to those who prefer a smaller phone. I do not have big hands or small hands, but I preferred this highly packable and proven design to the new one for several reasons.
Rinse the camera so you do not scratch it? Check. Normal and squeeze home button? Check. Flat and symmetrical design? Check. The actual edges to hold? Check. Thousands of cases are already available? Check – although I have not used it for a long time. The SE is the best without one.
At the time, the iPhone SE was more compact and beautiful than anything that Apple offered, while making virtually no compromise in terms of functionality. The only possible objection was his size, and it was (and is) a matter of taste.
It was the best object that Apple ever designed, with the best technologies ever developed. It was the best phone ever made.
And the best phone that was made since so also if you ask me. Since the 6th, it seems to me that Apple has only drifted, attracting something to captivate its users in the way of the design of the iPhone 4 and its new graphics capabilities since 2010. It has refined this design at the forefront of progress. and then, when everyone was waiting for the company to leap forward, she rather rocked, perhaps fearing to scare the gold goose.
For me, the SE was Apple who allowed himself a final victory lap on the back of a design that would never exceed. It is understandable that he does not want to admit, many years ago, that anyone who might prefer something he created almost ten years ago to his flagship product of $ 1,000, a device that I would thinks I need to add that it's design (I'll never have a notched phone if I can help it) but backpedals on handy features used by millions of people, like Touch ID and a 3.5mm headphone jack . This is in agreement with the irremovable choices of the same user made elsewhere in his range.
So, even though I'm disappointed with Apple, I'm not surprised. After all, it has been disappointing for years. But I still have my SE and I plan to keep it as long as possible. It's the best thing the company has ever done, and it's still a hell of a phone.
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