That would be me. I've been on an every two year upgrade cycle since the original iPhone, so this would be my year, but without a 4" screen model, I'll stick with my 5S and skip this year. And a warmed over last year's model labeled 6C won't do either. Top-of-the-line with a 4" (or even better a 3.5") screen or no sale.
I want to go back to a top of the line 4" iPhone myself. I don't want one purposely underspecced for marketing reasons.
Unfortunately it seems we are now at the mercy of whatever the growing Asian markets, particularly the Chinese buyers want. Which, even as an Asian myself, I find disconcerting because it's not how Apple, well, Steve Jobs, operated in the past. Size, color, design, ergonomics weren't predicated on chasing markets, but on what would work the best and look the best and represent the Apple image the best when made from the technology currently available.
It's kind of a mixed blessing that we now have more than one sized iPhone that comes in more than one or two colors. On the one hand customers have more options. On the other hand...customers have more options. And that's a bad thing in that you can't please everyone. But by looking like you're trying to please some people but not everyone equally, you're going to tick people off. People are now going to have in their minds what the ideal size is and be upset Apple won't make it.
It just seems like bargaining from a position from weakness to let it be known everything you're doing is to chase a market. Steve always sold us on Apple products based on the idea they were designed to offer the optimal user experience. If a phone was a certain size, you assumed it was that way for a good reason and was the best Apple can give at the current state of technology. And colors were based on what fit the Apple identity.
Apple can still offer gold bling and three or even four different sizes of iPhones or Apple Watches, but make it look like part of a plan to be the best and offer the best to a diverse consumer market. Not like you're pandering.
I personally was put off to discover we only got gold devices because the Asian market wanted them. If that's the way Apple thinking operates now, thank goodness the Asian markets aren't clamoring for asparagus green phones one inch thick is all I can say.
. Just hoping the battery won't be smaller as was rumoured.
