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Keeping support for small devices isn't free. I expect the 4S sized screen to be completely deprecated in a few years. It's fine if you want your phone to be ju
by forrestthewoods 12y ago
Keeping support for small devices isn't free. I expect the 4S sized screen to be completely deprecated in a few years. It's fine if you want your phone to be just a phone and poor web browser. It's less fine if you want it to be a pocket computer that performs a wider variety of tasks.
Not saying it can't be done, just that it has a not insignificant cost.
- crazygringo 12y agoBut that's exactly it -- I want my phone to be a phone and use phone-appropriate apps, like Evernote or Spotify or Shazam or Hipchat or Yelp or Moves or FitnessFast or the camera app or the weather app and so on... And be a web browser of last resort, when I need to look something up quick while on the street. I've got, you know, a laptop at work and a laptop at home that work a lot better for web browsing.
- forrestthewoods 12y agoSorry, that's not the future for most people. Even apps like Evernote and Spotify and what not are really, really hard to cram into a teeny tiny screen. It's not a great experience. Then if you consider internationally how many people use their phone as their primary, if not exclusive, computer and yeah. That's just how it adds up. App developers no longer have to worry about 320x480 resolutions. They effectively don't worry about small from 3:2 aspect ratio displays. Soon they won't have to deal with it at all. For the vast majority of users this is a good thing. For a slim minority it's a bad thing. =[