Rob Fahrni

Apple Newsroom

Available in three elegant colors with a premium matte finish — black, white, and a beautiful new soft pink — iPhone 17e will be available for pre-order beginning Wednesday, March 4, with availability starting Wednesday, March 11. iPhone 17e will start at 256GB of storage for $599 — 2x the entry storage from the previous generation at the same starting price, and 4x more than iPhone 12 — giving users more space for high-resolution photos, 4K videos, apps, games, and more.

If you configure one with the maximum amount of storage at 512GB, no trade-in, select Buy, select Connect to any carrier, and get the Annual coverage the price is $799.

Not bad for $800. This looks to be a great entry level phone and is actually something I could fit into. I have a 512GB iPhone 16 and it’s a wonderful device that, I believe, cost over double that $800 price tag.

Sure the camera isn’t as good but I think I could live with that.

It comes in three colors; Soft Pink, White, and Black. That works. I hope this thing sells like hot cakes. 🥞

UPDATE: The price of my iPhone 16 was $1,407.84 when I was all said and done. That included shipping. So, definitely not over double the price. 😁

Hat tip: K Longoso on Mastodon. 🎩

Switched up the good old springboard again. I’m diggin’ the new neon theme in McClockface.

The new Lock Screen. Diggin’ it.

I’ve never purchased an Apple iPhone case because they’re just too darned expensive for what you get. I have a couple of custom cases from Syd Cases and a couple Unicorn Beetle cases.

They do the job I intended for them to do, they protect my $1,000+ investment.

If I decide to get an iPhone 15 I’m totally buying a FineWoven case just so I can enjoy all the ugly marks it gets. I don’t mind them and I miss the olden days of aluminum iPhone bodies that scratched and wore over time. My iPhone 7 is a perfect example and I love the way it looks.

Maybe we can convince Apple to abandon Xi charging on the low end models and go to 100% USB C charging with a change back to an aluminum body? 🤣

I’d welcome it.

NetNewsWire Blog: “Our mission is to make the best RSS reader that we like making. We value stability, high performance, clarity, and lots of figurative air and space rather than a mélange of features.”

I love how Brent and the NNW team hold true to what they believe – and what they want – a feed reader to be.

If you haven’t checked out NNW you really should, it’s a great product.

MacRumors: ‘because it “opens the door for ‘Pro’ applications to come to ‌iPad‌."’

I picked that bit of a sentence from the article because it’s complete B.S. If folks want to bring Pro apps to the iPad they have the means to do it today on their Mac. Having Xcode on an iPad won’t magically make that any better. The Mac is the perfect tool for building Professional Mac and iOS apps.

Xcode on iPad would be fine. I can’t personally see using an iPad as my primary development machine. Mainly because I like using a bigger display for development. My 15in MacBook Pro display is about as small as I’d like to use.

If I could set the iPad on a stand of some sort, hook it up to my full size keyboard, mouse, and 24in display? That is something that may work.

We’re getting closer to that day, we’re just not quite there.

Do all Apple related podcasters believe every nerd carries around the latest greatest iPhone?

I’m a professional iOS software developer. Have been since 2009. Prior to that I made my living writing Windows and Linux based video viewing workstations. Prior to that I worked on a an extremely popular Windows desktop drawing and diagramming software. I’m approaching 30-years as a pro.

I carry an iPhone 7.