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Turns out, the small phone form factor is a vocal minority, whose market size isn't sufficient to sustain Apple's scaling economics, which is why they only cate
by AceJohnny2 3y ago
Turns out, the small phone form factor is a vocal minority, whose market size isn't sufficient to sustain Apple's scaling economics, which is why they only cater to it every few years because that's enough to saturate that market.
- dijit 3y agoWell, maybe. I think you're assuming that missed sales for the Mini means there's no market for small phones. I would take a different assumption: the 12 Mini (I owned one btw) was as large as an iPhone 6 which for many was the point where phones had gotten to be too large. If your answer to: "Small phone" is to go back to the first unacceptable phone size for many people, maybe they don't really think of it as "small phone". Why buy it? There was some minor issues with the phone too, laughable battery life for example and the fact that the 5-sized SE was still generally available and receiving support until even after the 13 mini was discontinued. People discuss the "SE" moniker as if it's an answer to small phones when ironically the first SE was the only actually small phone and everything since then just gets larger and larger. I bought a mini because I intentionally wanted to support Apples small phone endeavour. It was too big and going from a 12 Mini to a 15 pro doesn't feel like such a leap anymore because I can use neither of these phones one-handed anyway.
- cassianoleal 3y agoPrecisely. I want a small phone. I went from a X to a 15 Pro. Some time in between those 2 phones I considered a Mini. That is, until I actually held one in my hands and tried to use it. It was too big. The Mini was the worst of both worlds: small screen and still unusable with a single hand. There was just no point in getting one.