With Apple Intelligence. Might be ready for Beta by then.
Regardless, expect AppleCare+ to cost almost as much as the phone, unless there’s been some revolution in the screen tech.
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With Apple Intelligence. Might be ready for Beta by then.
Regardless, expect AppleCare+ to cost almost as much as the phone, unless there’s been some revolution in the screen tech.
I was trying to figure out where you heard this?
Apple's Decision To Cancel The iPhone Mini Vindicated By New Report - SlashGear
Apple's compact variation of its iPhone lineup was cancelled in 2022, but a new report indicates that decision may have been justified based on sales.
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So because it’s 2025 we don’t need Apple to be making revolutionary products but rather milk the freaking thing? Sure thing pal…
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Define “normal”. The average phone being sold is larger than the regular iPhone. If the regular iPhone is already smaller than the competition, it sounds like consumers want, in average, larger devices, and the regular iPhone is already “smaller than normal”
You would think that people with small hands would want smaller phones, but most women i know have the larger sized iPhones
They had a small phone available for all 5 of you who wanted it. Guess what, only one of you actually bought it.
I’ve found Face ID far more reliable than a fingerprint reader but I use my hands for a living.
No they don’t. Apple tried for 3 years with the iPhone 12 and 13 mini and they were outsold by all other iPhone models for sale.
The best selling phones every year are iPhones. In fact nearly the entire top 10 are usually iPhones. Other OEMs are selling millions of folding phones already—Apple will outsell all of them, regardless of the price.
This is simply not true. There are statistics all over the internet (here’s one) that corroborate the mini was the worst selling of the 4 models released each year the mini was sold and it was also outsold by previous year models as well.
An excessively vocal minority screaming about their desire for a small iPhone doesn’t mean it’s actually a popular device.
I look at that render, and I see the most useless idea in the history of technology.
There is a reason why phones are all around a certain size, and tablets are all around a certain size. Foldables simply create a product that is too big to be a phone and too small to be a tablet. Worthless, is the word.
There is a reason why phones are all around a certain size, and tablets are all around a certain size. Foldables simply create a product that is too big to be a phone and too small to be a tablet. Worthless, is the word.
This iPhone is NOT happening!!, Gurman is looking at an old report from 2023!!
LMAO. 25 million devices worldwide from all OEMs for all of 2024 is a rounding error. That's less than half of what just iPhone does in one quarter.
There are enough tech heads around the world to buy anything and everything that comes on to the market, for a time. Eventually they languish and move on to other things. Only the best products actually have staying power. Or, they're propped up by other revenue streams by a company that wants the image of selling a certain product. Hence why the Pixel still exists.
Foldable is a trend that is already peaking. Apple can maybe grab a few last desperate sales from that market, but it will likely be a 1 generation product like Vision Pro, assuming they are dumb enough to actually release it.
Oh. Imagine they attach some similar huge camera island as the current phones, but when shipped to the first adopters it turns out, no one tested using it on a table while only 3/4 unfolded, kind of a notebook, for lets say watching a video, and suprise: it always skips back over because of the weight of the damn camera bulk, and - of course - it makes no sense to place it on the flipside, uneven because the protruding lenses. „you are folding it wrong“. Just joking. Or predicting? 😂
They sold well over 5mil of the 12 mini over 2021/2022 and even more of the 13 mini. It's not a lot compared to sales of other models, yes, it's a minority, but it's not that it didn't sell. There's demand for a smaller phone, now more than ever. You would be surprised to see how fast the trends change and how tired people are of big phones, more and more people are turning their backs on media consumption and lean more towards digital minimalism. A folding Apple phone will be too expensive and too impractical, and won't sell as much as let's say iPhone 4 did (2mil sold in three days if I remember correctly).
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Is this your first day? My 14 pro max was $1800. We have phones over $3k in the wild today.
Still stupidly expensive. There was the gold ones and diamonds ones that were insane.
I’ll wait until we are on iFold 2 or 3 before we upgrade. I’m not willing to spend $2k+ per phone to only have screen issues within 12 months.
I'm not sure I'll ever want one but I agree not their first. I strongly suspect Apple doesn't expect big sales for this. Just enough to cover costs and get good feedback for future phones. It's just getting their feet wet.
Despite the naysayers, it'll be a commercial success.
It won't be their biggest selling model; but i think it'll capture a significant portion of the pro max market.
It won't be their biggest selling model; but i think it'll capture a significant portion of the pro max market.