Apple’s iPhone SE 2 is just an iPhone 8
Rumors are circulating now about Apple’s upcoming new iPhone SE 2. I’ve been looking forward to this phone for a long time, but there’s just one problem:
There is no iPhone SE 2.
The phone in the rumors appears to be a tweaked version of the iPhone 8. I have nothing against the iPhone 8; it is undoubtedly an excellent phone. But it’s not an iPhone SE 2.
The design of the iPhone SE comes from the iPhone 5, not the iPhone 8. The rumored “SE 2” has a 4.7-inch screen and the same kind of body as an iPhone 8.
One thing that particularly irritates me about all of this is how all the usual Apple news sites are mindlessly going along with Apple’s marketing department (assuming that’s where the name came from) and are branding this phone as the iPhone SE 2.
Talk about the big lie theory in action. If you say the lie enough, over and over again, people might accept it as the truth. Sorry, but I’m not going to buy it. A modified iPhone 8 is just a modified iPhone 8, it’s not an iPhone SE, and it neve…
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