So spend an extra $400 to avoid a $49 battery replacement? That makes sense. 🙄
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iPhone 12 Mini Faces Production Cut Due to 'Far Lower' Demand Than Expected
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Apple apparently agrees with your logic, but consumers apparently do not.
It’s a niche product no matter when it got released. We’re going on 7 years without iPhones in the 5/5s/5c size range being actively sold and/or marketed as flagships. The boat has sailed for the smaller sizes. If not, the Android crowd would be selling them as well because that market is going to try to fill every niche there is to keep sales momentum. The small ship has sailed. Apple gave its customers what they asked for and the larger overall market just is not going to bite. I suspect there will be a 12s/13 mini to help pay back the R&D, testing and CNC investment, but there will be no Pro version and I doubt a 13s/14 version.
I wish. Go on Walmart and check reviews of the Mini sometime... half of them are complaining it’s too small. Like what did these numpties expect exactly...?
You’d rather spend $500 more now to save $50 in 3 years? That’s not really rational.
The ones with human-sized hands.
True; they should have made it cheaper.
But again, size is the bigger selling point, not price. And the Mini is plenty high end; same internals as the 12.
Yes. I'm not sure how much cheaper Apple could have made it without eating into their margins. A little less battery, a little smaller body and that's about it. I bet the screen is the same or more expensive than the standard 12 given the higher PPI.
it would fit nicely in the $499 price range.
a $100 bump from SE2 seems fair for a generation new proc, dual cams, faceID + OLED
a $100 bump from SE2 seems fair for a generation new proc, dual cams, faceID + OLED
Just one opinion here but I think Apple should have kept the iPhone SE discontinued and made the 12 mini the new budget model. Price it starting at $499 with a max price of maybe $900 and it would've sold a lot better.
yeah I don’t think it’s a product people don’t want even in a big phone era but
the price is a lot and Se2 came out the same year, a whomping 4 years after se1
I would prefer buying iPhone mini if it had the same camera lens as the pro models. There is a demand for smaller iPhones but comparing the specs side-by-side with the Pro-models, one is tempted to go with the Pro at a higher price. This may be a marketing strategy by Apple for tempting customers to spend more but it also takes away any incentive for buying iPhone mini.
Better approach would be to have the same specs for all the iPhone models with the only differentiating factors being screen size and battery.
Better approach would be to have the same specs for all the iPhone models with the only differentiating factors being screen size and battery.
Nobody wants this form factor. Bring back the 5s/SE form factor if you want to sell a lot of units.
Not the same person, but I spent $1249 before tax and AppleCare on an iPhone X in 2017. I would've gladly spent $1249 on an iPhone 12 mini Pro with the telephoto lens and stainless steel frame.
Last year, I was quite torn between upgrading to the 12 Pro to keep the telephoto lens or to wait another couple weeks to get the size I really wanted in the 12 mini. I ended up waiting, but in hindsight I realize I definitely made the right choice. I do miss 10x zoom and the benefit of the telephoto lens quite often, but the mini is invaluable for all the other times when the phone is in my pocket or I'm using it one-handed. I used to quickly drop my iPhone 7 in my front shirt pocket when I was out and about all the time. That iPhone X was ever-so-slightly too large to fit. The mini fits again!
I'd never go back to a phone as large as, or larger, than the iPhone X. It's simply too unwieldy to use in hand, and it's too large to comfortably fit in many pockets. After all, these are supposed to be mobile phones.
Do you honestly even notice the difference unless holding them side my side?
It's practically the same size but you get a screen that works with the web and apps.
It seems like they didn't advertise for it at all. Apple's iPhone page doesn't even mention it upfront:
If you click "iPhone 12," it mentions the smaller size option but still doesn't say it's the "12 mini" anywhere noticeable. It's also weird that they sell the SE at the same time.
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And that'd reduce the number of different iPhone models in an already overcrowded lineup.
I am damn willing to pay for what I want. I wanted the top of the line in small package.
Before the 6, all iPhones were even smaller than the 12 mini. People got the choice between that and Android. Once you get a big screen, it doesn't really help with anything, but it feels weird for a few days if you go back to small. The big screens are worse, but Apple probably realized they'd start losing users who have become used to bigger screens if they didn't give in.
Anyway, glad they're selling small iPhones again.
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I’m an architect and being able to take a scan of a room / building when visiting site is really handy. Much better than a load of photos.
This is because Apple is still getting the wrong message from all those folks who haven't upgraded their iPhone 6s devices. They interpreted it as "We want cheap phones of that size," when the actual takeaway should have been, "You can have my headphone jack when you pry it out of my cold, dead hands."
12/12 Pro/Max are breaking records, not 12 Mini
Name of 12 Mini is misleading, this is not an iPhone Mini by any means, its perfect size in one hand unless you are over 6''3 with gigantic hands, far from what people usually call ''Mini''
iPhone 5S/SE (first gen), that's a mini
How can you name an iPhone ''Mini'' with 5'4 screen size?!
That's even bigger than screen size from iPhone 6/7/8 Plus
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