No one wants your smaller devices. Why do you assume people want what you want? Most don’t, they’ve tried it and no one buys them, that’s why they don’t make them. The market has spoken.
Well, Apple is still trying to hang on to the iPhone Air, and according to various reports it has sold only about half the total units that the mini sold. And Air sales have cratered to virtually zero.
Folding phones will likely be an even smaller market.
I don't think the problem is that there isn't a dedicated percentage of people who would buy smaller phones like the mini, or that the sales couldn't be profitable. The problem is that the screen size to battery volume ratio is or least was particularly bad for the mini. (The Air has this problem too.) I'd love to see them try again with modern hardware. I wouldn't use one personally, but know many people who would in a flash.
I think the Mini line was doomed by the second iteration of the SE.
I know multiple people who held onto their original SE because of the form factor, but bought the second SE when it came time to upgrade because that seemed to be as small as the iPhone would go anymore.
The subreddit is filled with posts of people's devices breaking even on the first day of purchase. It's hard to know what the actual breakage rate is but it's certainly suggestive of problems. It would be crazy if Apple with all their typical polish managed to miss some major flaw.
I feel this is worse than Nintendo’s “solution” to Switch joycon drift - giving us in the USA (for now) free refurb/fixes which must be cheaper than admitting there’s an issue, but still a cost/brand trust problem.
> When I stopped in an Apple Store yesterday and checked one of these out at the display table, I noted that the Apple Store employee who was showing the phone to people in a sort-of ad-hoc demo session told people that to close it, they had to press on the bottom-center bit of the hinge that's in-line with the bottom of the frame. Saw someone else online suggest that this could be because people pressed down on the middle of the screen to initiate closing it, and that that exposed some part of the screen to some moving parts in the hinge that were never meant to interact.
Comment from the article. Uh-oh, are we headed for another "You're (h)folding it wrong"?
hollow-moe 15 hours ago
gattilorenz 14 hours ago
Yeah, there's TENS of us :')
thatonehack 10 hours ago
hattar 9 hours ago
jazzyjackson 12 hours ago
A square I can actually reach all the corners of
Dylan16807 13 hours ago
And smaller meaning what? Z flip not small enough?
dyauspitr 11 hours ago
jzl 11 hours ago
Folding phones will likely be an even smaller market.
I don't think the problem is that there isn't a dedicated percentage of people who would buy smaller phones like the mini, or that the sales couldn't be profitable. The problem is that the screen size to battery volume ratio is or least was particularly bad for the mini. (The Air has this problem too.) I'd love to see them try again with modern hardware. I wouldn't use one personally, but know many people who would in a flash.
yesfitz 6 hours ago
I know multiple people who held onto their original SE because of the form factor, but bought the second SE when it came time to upgrade because that seemed to be as small as the iPhone would go anymore.
jbs789 15 hours ago
chis 15 hours ago
nradov 14 hours ago
rationalist 13 hours ago
classified 14 hours ago
HelloUsername 15 hours ago
dyauspitr 11 hours ago
runjake 14 hours ago
Has anyone caught wind of any hardware revisions?
semiquaver 15 hours ago
classified 14 hours ago
stevenwoo 13 hours ago
FireBeyond 7 hours ago
Comment from the article. Uh-oh, are we headed for another "You're (h)folding it wrong"?