Apple’s lack of follow-up to the iPhone SE means the SE is still the best iPhone with a headphone jack.<p>I honestly can’t believe Apple did an iPhone event without introducing a new model in that size. I know at least a dozen people (especially women) who had been saying for at least a year that until the SE had a replacement, they’d be using one, or swapping to Android.<p>With the weakest offerings for iPhones yet, in terms of reason to upgrade - and <i>intense</i> consumer demand for such a product, I’m just starting to get sick of Apple not listening to what it’s userbase is asking for.<p>Shoving a limited number of options in our faces only works if the consumers actually want any of those options.<p>For a time, the ‘MacBook’ was lighter than the ‘MacBook Air’. For years, Apple’s flagship iOS phones wouldn’t even connect to their flagship MacBooks and MacBook pros without an additional cable or adapter.<p>They’ve killed the non Touch Bar MacBook Pro, while the industry laments the Touch Bar’s existence.<p>It’s one thing not to listen to your customers. Apple has always been a certain level of compromise (price, features) as compared to other options. It’s another thing to completely ignore industry and user base response. Reasons to make that compromise have run out for me, and are running out for others.<p>I have been an Apple-exclusive computer (especially laptop) user for 15 years. My next laptop will be a hackintoshed Lenovo.