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They made the mini phones and it turns out nobody bought them because the people who cry out for them are very loud but very few.
by argsnd 1y ago
They made the mini phones and it turns out nobody bought them because the people who cry out for them are very loud but very few.
- madeofpalk 1y agoI would guess that Apple sold more mini phones than other android manufacturers sold of their phones. Apple's problem is it's own success. Unless each product brings in sales rivalling the GDP of countries, it gets cut.
- fergie 1y agoI had one. Loved it. So did many tech people who I know and respect. I believe that this is firmly within the design ethos of Jobs/Ive-era apple, and so it surprises me that they don't continue to offer this in order to keep their brand strong even if the grasping masses don't actually want it.
- philipwhiuk 1y agoThe actual problem is that the sort of people who buy them aren't the sort of people who upgrade every year.
- rkomorn 1y agoMost people don't upgrade their non-Mini iPhones every year either. The average seems to be between 2 and 3 years.
- bigstrat2003 1y agoMillions of people bought them. That isn't "nobody".
- argsnd 1y agoIt was a low single digit percentage of iPhone sales, clearly doesn’t warrant continuing the product line.