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Exactly. There are tons of people (like myself) who wanted a small smartphone that gets the job done and gets out of the way. Apple blew every bit of that marke
by sneakernets 8y ago
Exactly. There are tons of people (like myself) who wanted a small smartphone that gets the job done and gets out of the way. Apple blew every bit of that market away for reasons I can't fathom.
And since everyone copies apple, get ready for massive slabs across the entire smartphone market.
- colejohnson66 8y agoYou forgot the important part: mock Apple for doing something (before copying it next year)
- haditab 8y agoSlightly off-topic but how are other manufacturers copying Apple by making large phones? Apple was the only one not making large phones for years.
- sneakernets 8y agoThe difference is that most phones were large due to limitations of miniaturization of the tech. Now it's mostly for aesthetic reasons, which is fine, as long as manufacturers make smaller form factors. Apple stopped doing that, so expect everyone else to follow suit and make phablets from now on.
- haditab 8y agoThis is definitely not true. I worked in the smartphone industry before and at the time Apple started making large phones. Rumor had it Apple stuck with small phones because Steve Jobs wanted them to stick with the same screen size to avoid apps looking different on different iphones. Regardless, everyone was making them large because it provided the best user experience and eventually Apple switched to it as well because it put them at a disadvantage in terms of user experience. Even the term 'phablet' was coined before Apple switched to large phones.