For a while, I was optimistic that Apple would at least continue to release the SE every 3-ish years. I'm guessing they wanted to finally kill the fingerprint reader and other SE-specific features[1]. And maybe even the SE with its reduced price didn't sell that well.
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1. Yes, I understand that these features were present in other phones, but the SE was the last phone actively sold by Apple that had them
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1. Yes, I understand that these features were present in other phones, but the SE was the last phone actively sold by Apple that had them