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Kinda sad the mini form factor didn’t pan out. I wished Apple would have done a iPhone Pro mini; would have purchased one in a heartbeat.
Eh, I think the problem is customers just prefer bigger phones. I mean, personally I prefer the mini, but I think it's clear I'm in the minority.
Using a rebrand to try and downplay the compactness may work for sight-unseen buyers, but in the end if they're shown the bigger phone in-store, past sales would suggest they're likely going to pick the bigger phone. (Phones ended up so big in the first place because people preferred them, too.)
Very well said. I will also be stuck with my 13 mini for as long as it works, mainly because - as you said - I want a portable tool with the full Apple ecosystem access.
Eh, I think the problem is the customers just take what apple gives them
My girlfriend loves her iPhone 13 mini. Yet when she needs a new phone, she will get the iPhone large whatever.
They know this and don't care to please the small portion of their fan base that want a smaller phone.
Having a mini line is just an extra cost to them and apple cuts all the costs they can to maximize profit. Not to please their consumers.
I think this is true to an extent, but my argument against it would be to point to the period where Apple resisted making large phones, while Android phones were getting bigger and bigger. (This would be approximately the era of the 5/5S) In the more wild-west product lineup of Android, it became clear that bigger screens equaled more sales, for better or for worse.
Did apple make their own screens during that time?
Heard apple doesn't make them and just read that Samsung is going to supply 2/3 of the OLED screens for the iPhone 14.
Maybe apple wanted to make their phones bigger, but they had limitations.
If you have contracts and stuff getting 3rd party screens, you can't just switch so quickly.
Apple is better to play it off that they don't want to rather than can't. You don't want to be a company that can't.
I don’t think Apple has ever made their own phone screens. They are a not a manufacturing company.
The limitation was the size of the human hand. Jobs wanted it designed to be single hand navigable. This was widely broadcast and know since the introduction of the first iPhone, and criticized once android phones got larger.
The last form factor Jobs oversaw was the 5. The screen did change so a preexisting contract wasn’t constraining the size. The screen got slightly taller but was kept the same width. It had the smallest screen of major phones released that same year, and was still smaller than the flagship android phones of the previous year.
The first form factor that jobs did not oversee was the larger 6 and even larger 6plus.
Three phone iPhone XS, iPhone and iPhone XL. It's the higher spec options that keep people from the minis to at least some extent.
doesn’t even have to be an iphone, any recent pro mini type phone would be appreciated
@Bobicus @tst123 same here. I type this message, like all messages, with my thumb only. I really like having one hand free. Sooo much more efficient and relaxed. And yes, my hands are big, but not that big.
There’s that solution of not using the upper 1/3 of your screen, I know. But it’s difficult to access that option. I’m open to suggestions how to do that quickly.
And I have an iPhone 13 mini and indeed…keeping it as long as possible.
Agreed. Give me the long lens/3 lenses on the mini form factor and that’s the sweet spot for me.