Apple delivered its latest budget handset, the $599 iPhone 16e, without pomp. There was no big event in person, nor was there one online. No journalists scrambled through hoards of colleagues to snap photos of the phone. Instead, CEO Tim Cook tweeted out that new hardware was on the way, days before Apple announced the handset via a press release. Accordingly, the 16e isn’t an exciting device. It’s a safe one. It’s an amalgam of earlier iPhones in a bid to create a product that’s reliable, while keeping costs down. The handset most closely resembles the iPhone 13 and 14,...