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Nobody cares about how hard it is to hold, otherwise we'd have 4-5" screens rather than the phablets that are the norm and basically the only option.
by ta1243 1y ago
Nobody cares about how hard it is to hold, otherwise we'd have 4-5" screens rather than the phablets that are the norm and basically the only option.
- cubefox 1y agoExactly. Remember when people, for years, complained that phones, for years, kept getting larger and larger? It's the difference between stated and revealed preference. Phones kept getting larger and larger because larger phones sold better. Though apparently we have hit the sweet spot a while ago, as phone size is stable now.
- torstenvl 1y agoThere is no point in history at which larger phones have sold better.
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- cubefox 1y agoMust have been a conspiracy then.
- torstenvl 1y agoCompare for any version. iPhone/Pro always sell better than iPhone Plus/Pro Max. There is no year in which the larger size sold better than the mainstream size. Ever. You are literally just making shit up.
- cubefox 1y agoYou are comparing cheaper phones with substantially more expensive ones. For a meaningful comparison we have to compare phones with a similar price but different size.
- torstenvl 1y agoFalse and irrelevant. The claim was "Phones kept getting larger and larger because larger phones sold better." That claim is demonstrably false. Whether attendant facts like adjusting for price point lead to a subtler inference does not change the absolute fact that the proposition is not consistent with reality.
- cubefox 1y agoPrice can decrease sales even if size increases sales and price and size are correlated. Causation doesn't always imply correlation.
- ta1243 1y agoSadly the iphone minis did not do well commercially, at least as we're told.