I'd bet 90% of the iPhone 12 users don't know what most of the features are on the phone. OIS? RAW? f-stop?
Exactly. They simply want the new shiny.
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iPhone 12 Mini Missing From Top 5 Best Selling Smartphone List of January 2021
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I'd bet 90% of the iPhone 12 users don't know what most of the features are on the phone. OIS? RAW? f-stop?
Exactly. They simply want the new shiny.
Of course it does. It means there is a chance they'll discontinue the mini line sooner rather than later. If had sold better, its future would be much more solid than it is now.
LiDAR on its own is basically a pointless gimmick right now. It shouldn't come as a surprise most people don't use it or even know about it.
And yeah, the mini is not attractive so people don't buy it. And no, people don't just default to the most expensive phone. The 12 outsells both the 12 Pro and 12 Pro Max. It should be noted that the Pro Max outsells the Pro though, because it's bigger, has a better battery, and has a better camera setup.
Make a new Mini every three years like you do the SE and be done with it.
T-Mobile has a sale that takes 50% off a mini for a 3GS trade-in or newer. A 3GS!
I would have purchased an iPhone 12 mini, but it's missing the telephoto lens. Because of that, I had to opt for the 12 Pro. I rarely if ever use the ultrawide, but use the telephoto a lot.
All that crappy 12 line what is missing is the touchid. Why buy iphone today if the Xiaomi has everything? The Iphone is officially oldschool tech.
Not my daily driver, but I’ve handled the Mini extensively and it is an excellent phone and form factor in-hand. My guess is that people see the regular iPhone 12, with larger screen and battery, and consider it a no-brainer upgrade for an extra $100. Also, more and more people use their phone as their sole communication device - no desktop, laptop, or tablet. When you live your entire life on a pocketable screen, the size of that screen matters a lot.
I don’t think the form factor is why the mini isn’t selling, it’s the price. Apple should have waited and made the mini the new $399 iPhone SE, they could have used an LCD and single camera to keep the cost low.
I haven't seen a Mini out in the wild where I live, but if I did, it won't make me angry. I'm not sure I can say the same for some of our members on here.
They bought the seventh best selling smartphone in January? (And to get it out of the way, I have the 11 Pro Max because I love big, but I feel for those who love small and up until now couldn't get what they want.)
I love my iphone 12 mini, I'm surprise the sales not that good. I always prefer smaller phone, the mini is the perfect size for me. I hope Apple don't give up the mini line, by the way, its still the top 7 best selling phone after all.
I think the "mini" name had an effect on sales too. They should have called it iphone 12. Called the 12 the plus, and so on. I think it would have been a much better sell. People equate mini with LESS than normal. Therefore why would I buy less of a phone when I can get a real iphone 12 for only 100 bucks more. More people would have said, I don't need to spend the extra 100 bucks on the larger size.
That might be the answer.
The Mini outsold the SE in January, and it almost surely has a higher unit margin on sales. What it doesn't have is the SE's extended product cycle which may (or may not) lead to a less favorable ROI than that model.
Just like the iPad Mini is updated on a slower cadence than other iPad models, so too might the iPhone Mini eventually be compared to other iPhone models.
And yet it's still selling better than the 2020 SE.
I can understand the price for the SE as they didn't need to re-tool or re-design whatsoever beyond the better processor.
$499 would have been fair for a slightly better than SE (but far Lower spec than 12) Mini.
It's still selling well to be up on the chart. Apple overestimating demand doesn't equate to it not selling.
MacRumors attempts to paint the 12 mini as a failure are both obvious and pathetic and I do not understand why. So it’s not the #1 most popular phone in the world. It’s primarily being beat by its siblings. It’s outselling all three Android models. 1% of ALL Smartphones sold in the world for January is still in the millions of phones. Drop the hate already it’s making you look bad.
It’s one of the top 10 selling models, beating all but 3 Android models, selling 1% in January means it sold millions. Millions of people in one month alone wanted it. Millions.
Half the users wanted a small budget phone, half of them wanted a high spec Mini phone.
It sold plenty
Yeah, and people simply just got used to the larger phones over time, and accepted the fact that a larger phone comes with a larger battery.
Most people who have upgraded to a larger phone, when they hold the smaller ones are like how did I use this before.
Myself included, I had several 4.7" Touch ID phones, never felt like I wanted the 5.5" Plus ones, but once I upgraded to a XS Max, I couldnt go back to something smaller.
Meanwhile 9to5Mac with the more rational coverage
“iPhones comprised 6 of the 10 best-selling smartphones in January “
“iPhones comprised 6 of the 10 best-selling smartphones in January “
Its funny how you imply I'm a phablet fan. I actually bought a mini last year.
That really doesn’t mean much since for everything ever created, good or bad there would be at least one who loves it. I think iPhone mini will be just a flop. Small phones made sense over a decade ago. People in general (majority) love large display phones and this has been proven by popularity based on the most sold devices.