
On Monday March 21st Apple unveiled its 4 inch iPhone SE and its new, smaller 9.7 inch iPad Pro. The cost of the iPhone SE will start at $399 for the 16 gigabyte version. The iPad Pro will start at $599 for the 32 gigabyte version. The iPhone SE is a lot cheaper than the iPhone 6s which costs $649 and the 6s Plus which costs $749. The iPhone SE is considered almost identical to the iPhone 5s because it has most of the same features and has a very similar design. The iPhone SE still features the fingerprint scanner and what Apple likes to call "live photos" or "4k" in which a video is taken after you take a photo. I never even thought the feature existed or was possible until I saw commercials for it. Although the iPhone SE still has most of the same features the iPhone 5s and iPhone 6s had, is lacking a couple of features. Two of the features the iPhone 6s had that this new phone is lacking. Those two features made the iPhone 6s, especially the plus, more easy to use since it was very large. Those features are not needed for the iPhone SE because is not very large. Meanwhile, the new iPad Pro is exactly the same as the first iPad Pro except for its size. The new iPad Pro is meant to be more portable and it is. The first iPad Pro was 12.9 inches in length while the new iPad Pro is only 9.7 inches in length. The 12.9 inch iPad Pro will still be available. Apple claims it went back to making smaller products is because they have a new concept that less is more. However, the most likely reason for why they decided to go back to making smaller products is because there are a lot of people who prefer smaller, more portable devices rather than larger devices. I know some people who still have the iPhone 4. It could be some people are not very eager to invest in a new device, maybe because of the price or maybe because they like the device they currently have. My friend Jackson still uses his iPhone 4 quite a bit and I wonder what his next phone will be because he said he will be getting a new phone, I believe, this April. I honestly don't know why Apple released the iPad Pro and the iPhone SE at this time of year because they're supposed to be coming out with the iPhone 7 this fall. I believe Apple has been eager to release new products as soon as possible because they are trying to recover from the decreasing stocks they had last year which dropped by 15%. Also, they were probably ready to come out with the iPhone SE and the new iPad Pro while they probably need more time to make the iPhone 7. I think it is extremely easy to say that Apple is running out of ideas for products it can make.
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