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With the removal of the SE form the lineup, none of the phones that Apple currently sells fit in the average women's jeans pocket. https://pudding.cool/2018/08/
by aczerepinski 8y ago
With the removal of the SE form the lineup, none of the phones that Apple currently sells fit in the average women's jeans pocket. https://pudding.cool/2018/08/pockets/ https://pudding.cool/2018/08/pockets/
That's straight up crazy. I can't believe the market decided "ability to easily place in pocket" is no longer an important feature of cell phones. Especially with Apple's multi-decade history of telling us that thinner and smaller are objectively better when it comes to computing devices.
- zwily 8y agoI never see women with phones in their front pockets. It’s always in the back pocket, or purse. </anecdata>
- jsjohnst 8y agoThat’s because they can’t. Women’s front pockets are either non-functional or entirely too small to be useful.
- aczerepinski 8y agoBut most women’s jeans pockets could still comfortably fit the original iPhone. They got the ergonomics right initially with Jobs in charge.
- dehue 8y agoI am a woman and I don't think the ability to fit a phone in a jean pocket determines best phone dimensions. Most of my pants don't even have front pockets and even large phones fit perfectly well in my purse. I much prefer having a large phone screen to a small phone that can uncomfortably fit into only few items of clothing I regularly wear.
- betaby 8y agoThat's why I'm not switching to the newer IPhone from the older SE. If can't easily carry phone in the pocket I would better use IPad with LTE module since I carry a briefcase anyway.
- vinceguidry 8y agoIf the margin on bigger-screen phones is a multiple of the margin on small-screen phones, then that gives Apple a strong incentive to pretend that people want big-screen phones even when they don't. Also, being a company that relies so heavily on hype and branding, maintaining more than three or so offerings in a market segment is totally against their DNA. We're being dragged kicking and screaming into Apple's vision of it's future cash pile. One more reason why I preordered a Librem 5.
- mgkimsal 8y agobut... just offer the same price then (or bump the price slightly to protect the margins). margin alone doesn't really explain enough. Having an SE and an 7 for the same price would still give people choice, and possibly even bigger margins on the SE.
- vinceguidry 8y agoI thought I had answered that in my second paragraph. Apple just isn't the kind of company that can offer real choice. Have you ever gone to a restaurant that had like a hundred different menu items? The chances of any one being really really good is practically zero. Apple has a lot of product lines already. Phones, laptops, desktops, watches. Too much diversification of one product line effectively makes it two product lines, each of which needs its own department and management structure. If Apple wanted to be Samsung, sure, I guess they could do that. But they don't.
- abraham_lincoln 8y agoCheesecake Factory?
- vinceguidry 8y agoNot an exception. They do everything somewhat well, not very well, and even that level of quality is subject to human vagaries like how well the cooks are trained or even how well they're feeling today. Whereas I can go to my local bar with like 3 main entrees and a rotating special and know that no matter what I order, it's going to be awesome. Seriously, I never knew how good sliders could be until I let them show me. The Cheesecake factory is Samsung, and my bar is Apple, at least back when Apple was still great at everything.