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“Poured out for the last time: $146M in beans, no profit, all heart.”
“Small body, huge heart — the phone that proved good things come in small packages”
Announced March 21, 2016, the first-generation iPhone SE — 'Special Edition' — was Apple's beloved pocket-sized exception. It wore the familiar iPhone 5s body but packed the iPhone 6s internals inside: the A9 chip, a bigger battery, and a 12-megapixel camera shooting 4K video. Fans adored it for proving you could have flagship power without a flagship-sized slab, plus niceties like Live Photos and Hey Siri working un
On September 12, 2018, Apple removed it from the official website, a quiet end after two and a half years. But the SE went out on top: it was among the first iPhones supported through seven major versions of iOS, from iOS 9 all the way to iOS 15. Few phones get such a long, well-earned goodbye.
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“Poured out for the last time: $146M in beans, no profit, all heart.”
“Checkmated at last — folded gracefully into a bigger board, never into oblivion.”
“The little dongle that made every dumb TV feel like a smart one.”