OK. Here's a question for you Jpack, the 12 and 13 mini were considered failures, however fast forward a few years to now, and brand new sealed Minis are practically impossible to find indicating all worldwide stocks have been sold out. So from Apples perspective this means they have got their ROI and Profits, and thus the Minis have achieved their financial objective. Is this a fair assessment?
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Agreed. With decent efficiency through a Pro Motion display and other little tweaks I think it is more likely to be a good phone than the 13 mini was. Even a regular mini phone would work I think just sacrificing the multiple cameras for a couple to free up internal space.
The Air’s camera plateau is pretty bad (plus how much the camera lens is sticking out of it). I’d rather have an “e” mini.
No. Apple pulled them from sale. There was no period where you could only get them at certain Apple stores or only in certain colors. They were not hard to find. It was gone all at once in September 2023 when new model phones came out and the 13 mini was no longer part of the lineup. We do not know how many unsold units Apple had. Likely they put them aside for warranty replacements or disassembled them for components. Some third-party retailers and carrier stores might have kept selling their SOH if they were not allowed to return it for a refund to Apple. If you are stuck with inventory, you sell it until its gone or call a liquidator. That's why it seemed it had a longer tail than it really did, but Apple had already gotten that money from the retailers back in 2022. As far as ROI goes, we also have no idea what kind of R&D or marketing expenses there were involved in the lineup, if the warranty support costs were the same as a regular phone, etc. Even if they sold every one they made, Apple could still consider it a loss.
Here is the most likely future lineup.
The Apple Watch already does that, so no need to modify it. I think most people would use AirPods if they were going to have a phone conversation with an Apple Watch, but you can just do it via the little speaker and mic if you really want 🙂
For someone who is advocating to always look at both sides, weigh all the advantages and disadvantages and come to your own conclusions, you are astonishingly bold in proclaiming your own opinion as universal truth.
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I don't have the opinion that a Mini phone is needed. It seems the market for such a device is rather small, which is a likely factor for why they discontinued it.For someone who is advocating to always look at both sides, weigh all the advantages and disadvantages and come to your own conclusions, you are astonishingly bold in proclaiming your own opinion as universal truth.
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Perhaps for your use case it is not necessary to have a mini phone and why you made this comment. Unless you have owned and used the 13 mini for any length of time you're basing your comments how you look at the 13 mini rather than having actual experience using one long term.
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Antagonizing people is not my intention. I am simply stating my opinion on the subject matter.
