Doubt it’s popular. Most countries people don’t have iPods, laptops, iPhone. They just have one so they go for the biggest screen or semi big screen for best bang for your buck.
Phones are just super important these days. It’s your link to finding jobs let along studying and connecting with people so people spend and can justify spending money on a big screen phone over a laptop. It’s just more versatile. Plus gaming, social, pics, etc... oh and you can take it with you in your pocket.
I used to think exactly that and I do have MacBooks, iPads and iPhone for different purposes but you’ll be surprised how many people do, not only casual stuff like checking social networks but serious stuff like searching jobs and even completing online exams / courses, on iPhone. I have several people in my immediate circle who use their phones like that.
And these are people living in the 1st world countries. In some other 3rd world countries phones are more serious all purpose computers as
@1rottenapple mentioned. I’ve seen this first hand.
Exactly this. At some point people decided to turn their "smart" phone into pocket PCs and this is what is probably driving larger screen cellphones. The phone OS's are not designed to be so. To me it feels like chopping vegetables with disposable razors instead of a proper knife, but whatever floats their boat.
I can forgive them though as having a $800 cellphone + $1000 PC seem a lot when you can do it all on one device especially in the lower income countries. There is also the convenience of having it always ON and in your pocket ready at any time anywhere, and operating 1 device surely beats operating 2.
I got used to my 6S (4.7" screen) and it's probably as small as a useable phone screen can be these days, but I still think the narrow forms of the of 4 and 5 were the best to hold and use with one hand.
Why you call it usable? the past 4 and 3.5 inch screens ran the same apps and were just as usable. The bigger screen 4.7 sure gives more breath room to see browse desktop sites and cram more icons in but people were using near same apps on iphone 5 and prior and were very happy. Actually they used Blackberry messenger and Twitter on 2.5inch BlackBerry curve and were happy paying money for that experience.
The whole device is like 4.3 inch tall so that makes it smaller than the iphone 6/7/8 screen size.
Apple isn't going to go smaller with the phone. It would be nice to have the 4s size gain for just phone usage. As such, the 5.4 mii fits my needs very well.
Well, they are still keeping the SE around since 2016 so it seems to be selling with the smaller screen. With the iPod they went so mini that they even went screen-less. Its not the same logic, but a place for a smaller phone probably exists. Even if it was 5%, that 5% can be 5 million in yearly sales. Is that low?
That’s very true. Those of us outside of the US have to pay VAT and sales tax, making Apple products ridiculously expensive.
Why do you pay more? Doesn't the USA treat the iphone as a Chinese import? Does Mexico treat is as Chinese or USA import? Or is it because you have higher tax rate?
You can easily take an iPad or MacBook with you anywhere too. If I was doing important, web related stuff like job searching, I’d much rather have a Macbook than an iPhone for many reasons. Even studying and artistic stuff, give me an iPad and Apple Penci. Why would I want a phone for that?. Apple doesn’t make proper use of the larger display of the Max, it’s just a bigger iPhone. No pencil support, no true multitasking etc...A MacBook or iPad are far more versatile than an iPhone
The iPad is just a large screen iPhone, it has no extra abilities other than the stylus use. You will get things done on it the same way you would on an iPhone or iPod touch if they still exist.
On the other hand, a laptop, you can have a physical keyboard, run VMs, full fledges browsers with plugins, file systems, a mouse, run multiple OS, full Office Suite, let it crunch numbers for hours...the possibilities are endless.
Is a standard iPhone 12 and 12 Pro now defined as a tablet does anybody know? They seem to be the popular devices and to me they are smaller than the plus iPhones of old and the 12 Pro which I associate as being phablets.
I think they are definitely phablets. I think what was considered a phablet in 2011 was smaller than the current 6inch.
. Priorities I think.
. Priorities I think.
