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I hope so. I'm old enough to remember the time when smaller meant better, and miniaturization was a sign of progress (Hell, to me the first iPhone, for all its
by gone35 12y ago
I hope so. I'm old enough to remember the time when smaller meant better, and miniaturization was a sign of progress (Hell, to me the first iPhone, for all its wonders, seemed at the time way too big).
Maybe one day people will re-discover the appeal of the candybar and slim-flip form factors, who knows.
- freehunter 12y agoSmaller means better when the thing is big for no conceivable reason. It's not a universal truth. Smaller was better with phones for a long time because the phone was much larger than a the screen, and it didn't need to be. Now, the phone is the screen. And with screens, bigger has always been better. TVs keep getting larger, as well as desktop monitors. Whether it's for functionality or for status, bigger is better for a lot of things. Phones were the odd duck because the screens were tiny back then.
- gone35 12y agoGood point about screen sizes in general, but perhaps you miss the main appeal of small portable devices (aside from aesthetics alone): portability! And it matters too for portable screens: otherwise 5" palm pilots, extra-large tablets, or 19" laptops would have been the norm, don't you think?