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Sorry, iPhone Mini Fans: Apple Isn't Planning Another Small Phone
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It did.
Even Big Peoples' perceptual-evolutions' achieve higher orbits, over time....
I get why people want other people to believe what they believe; but, I fail to understand why they insist that other people believe what they want to believe.
Because small phone is thing in past, insisting Apple bring small phone is not getting anywhere. Desiring a pipe dream is wasting other people’s time.
Get use to the tree. Small phones are dead and Apple is not gonna do mini iPhone. Instead of complaining, just figure out what works best for you with existing product line.
Kids gets hand down phones from parents. Kids doesn’t need the shining new phone.
Pro-level mini won’t exist. The price point won’t sell. The only way small phone sell is price it significantly cheaper than pro iPhone. The Pro phone buyer won’t consider mini iPhone at all.
What works best with the existing product line, hmmm… lets see -
the Plus/Max versions are out of the question because they’re useless big and heavy bricks to carry around on a daily basis. The other 3 existing options that are all the same size, they are okish to use with some compromises, but not so convenient to carry around on a daily basis, special when you do sports activities… so there is no really good option to choose from. 🤷♂️
I am sure he will love the Ipad mini as his phone.
So that we can get it in our pocket!
oh and it helps to be able to actually be able to reach across it.
I have very large hands and the current phones are too difficult to reach across. I don't know how people with small hands manage at all.
Totally disagree. Using that reasoning, Mac Mini shouldn't exist because the Mac Studio is more "pro", or the AirPod Max should render the AirPod Pro's as not needed. No, people buy small Pro devices exactly because they are smaller. My wife and I would happily buy an expensive new iPhone Mini Pro in a heartbeat.
They learned how to juggle it in their hands... unless they always use two hands.
This post should've held a LOT more LOVES! As a reaction.
Indeed we don't NEED Gurman's obvious foolery.
Why do you enjoy the misfortune of others? What do you really gain from that beyond senseless fleeting humor that doesn't last beyond a few moments only to be forgotten?
Your satiated goal of humor aims too low, your appetite should be bigger
INDEED! But unfortunately that pisses off more macOS users than it should at all.
Only weirdo's and ppl with too much money than common sense bought into the current iteration of the Apple Vision Pro. Really there is NOTHING PRO about it without even a base iteration released.
Should've just dropped the "SE" entirely.
Your suggestion of the SE price point never made sense due to the FaceID and higher storage options and chip available at the time of the Apple 13 mini.
Yeah I can see that.
Keep the mini for when you travel as a cheap deterrent of theft when on vacation. Afterall beyond the camera which is sufficient you should be using the iPhone less and enjoying vacations much more.
Last weeks rumors suggested the Apple foldable would have an outer display at 5.3" - .1" less than the 13 mini.
Goto GSMArena.com site and look up the Oppo Find N1 and N2 for an idea of the current iPhone foldable rumor size.
You two are REAL troopers! Love that. If it wasn't for mind stolen, Apple Advanced Encryption initial launch screw-ups, and my need to connect to cloud computers for school - I'd not have left the ecosystem back on iOS 15.3.1 . My attempt last month was even worse since no help from Apple to get something sentimental and crucial out of iMessage with my old iCloud account couldn't or wouldn't (likely) be done.
Right now the Mac Mini M4 Pro is appealing but Apple soured me for a while. Recovery is on-going.
rumored 5.3" thus far.
I put no faith into that outer screen-size as a LOT of iPhone Pro/Max users are looking for a foldable would never even enjoy that.
Every foldable made and shipped - the majority of users STILL use the outer screen a LOT more than the inner screen.
Just like you missed featuring the 12/13 mini in the comparison screenshot above you completely missed the point of either devices. ONLY the iPhone SE OG aligned with the 2 mini's purpose for being.
Those charts don't even seem to include the mini models and they don't add up to 100% so there's data missing.
There's no reality where small phones match features and specs of larger phones. People want battery life. A dead phone is a useless phone. People want good features. And there's people who want a small phone but end up prioritizing those other things.
Sales umbers are often skewed by the early adopter crowd. The people who want "the best" end up buying "the biggest" because it has the best specs. And those people also tend to be the ones buying a new phone year over year. The people who bought mini kind of end up fine using their phone for 3+ years.
My point, if any, is really that I think there's a big enough small phone market that if Apple didn't try to shoehorn the iPhone mini product strategy into the release-a-numbered-phone every year strategy they could have just made an small phone that gets updated every 2-3 years that makes enough revenue to be worth that. They just keep messing up with iPhone strategy. Its clear they don't really have a winning formula because even the plus phones are going away.
I love my 13 mini but have no idea how you'd possibly get 2-3 days of battery life out of it. I am at home and on wifi for most of my day and by the end of me going out with friends it's basically dead unless I bring along an external battery to recharge.
I guess if you just don't use your phone and keep it on Low power mode 100% of the time you might be able to do that. But I don't have a mini because I "want to reduce screen time." I just like smaller phones.
Yea... it sucks. There's no small androids either.
But honestly I had an iPhone SE (the first gen that was based on the 5s design) and I just held onto that until apple released the iPhone mini. If people really don't buy larger phones. If the just hold onto their small phone and submit feedback saying they want things smaller. Apple will have to cave.
Honestly I never cared about foldable phones before–especially not the vertical flip because all of them are huge. But if Apple legit makes an iPhone mini sized trifold phone that turns into an iPad mini... That could be something really great.
👍 I use my AW as a backup to my iPhone (I am old with medical problems so it is safer to be connected at all times), but I think for hikes, runs, nights out, etc. an Apple Watch with cellular on its own pretty much does everything the iPhone would given the context. I was sceptical in the extreme about the AW, but got it to reassure my family. It has been a good purchase.
I find it strange that on the Android side there are really no small phones either. At least in the mid to high end ranges
There is a clearly price gap between Mac mini and Mac Studio. And how often does AirPor Max gets updated?
The mini iPhone Pro makes zero sense from price perspective, there is just no market for such thing. The only thing mini iPhone can exist is on the ultra low budget phone.
Sure. Two of you. How many Pro mini buyer out there for Apple to justify the cost of producing mini iPhone.
There is nothing stop you from negotiating with Apple to pay for all the R&D, production cost and profit margin, for your two mini iPhone. If you really want iPhone mini Pro, nothing can’t be solved with enough money. I am sure 10 iPhone mini Pro buyers out there will appreciate your dedication.
Clearly vast majority of people handle large phone perfectly.
I might have small sample, out of 100 people in my office, there is ZERO mini iPhone
Me too -- if for no reason beyond there being a zillion producers and you'd think someone would pump out "something" of a smaller size (quality, fit and finish concerns aside)
Because it hasn't been available for YEARS!
Not sure I understand your logic.
What happens to phones no longer sold by Apple? Do they just disappear from owners' hands the moment Apple stops selling them? If lots of people bought them, they would still be using them.