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▲ r0fl 3 days ago

Phones are used to consume content. Bigger screens make consuming content better. Therefore smaller screens do not sell well.

The sales back up my statements.

Yes I romanticize about an iPhone 17 mini pro but in the end I like being able to watch some downloaded content on a plane without having to bring an iPad from time to time and I'm not going to do that on a tiny screen.

▲dijit 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

I feel like the sales data would back you up, if it wasn’t for the fact that the 12 and 13 mini were larger than the iPhone 6 and 6S which for many people was too large.

It’s a bit like selling increasingly carbonated water and then selling slightly less carbonated water and pretending that it was still water that you were selling- and using the data (of nobody buying it) to tell everyone that “nobody likes the still water; so we will continue only selling carbonated and carbonated+.”

▲Jtsummers 3 days ago | parent [-]

> if it wasn’t for the fact that the 12 and 13 mini were larger than the iPhone 6 and 6S which for many people was too large.

I don't get why people make statements like this.

6: 2.64 (W) x 5.44 (H) x .27 (D)

6s: 2.64 (W) x 5.44 (H) x .28 (D)

13 mini: 2.53 (W) x 5.14 (H) x 0.30 (D)

The only dimension in which the mini was larger than the 6 or 6s was in depth, and that was just barely. It was smaller otherwise.

It did have a larger display, but it fit it into a smaller device.

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All iPhones before the iPhone 6 were smaller than the 12 and 13 minis. The 1st gen SE was smaller. Everything from 6 on, including the 2nd and 3rd gen SEs, have been larger, though barely for the SEs. The downside to the SEs compared to the minis was that they have smaller displays than the minis.

▲dijit 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

I literally laid them on top of each other and the 6 was marginally larger.

Betrays the point anyway: the ideal size was the 5 and it was nowhere near that, even by your official numbers (which I would guess are excluding the rounded edges maybe? - regardless, not the point)

▲Jtsummers 3 days ago | parent [-]

> I literally laid them on top of each other and the 6 was marginally larger.

So you did that and still wrote that the minis were larger? Or you did that after I pointed out that the minis were smaller?

▲dijit 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

Apologies, what I meant was "larger than an iPhone 5/5s";

I provided pictures in a sibling comment thread to show what I mean, there's about 20% of a difference between the iPhone 5 and 6, and that size difference is very similar for the mini.

If people wanted to buy a phone that was the size of the 6, they would have purchased the SE from 2020, which was that roughly that size.

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▲mrheosuper 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

no way the 6/6s smaller than 12mini/13mini. The 13mini is like 5s, but with notch-screen and no home button

▲dijit 3 days ago | parent [-]

No, its not.

https://imgur.com/a/iphone-mini-vs-iphone-5-vs-iphone-6-case...

▲mrheosuper 3 days ago | parent [-]

Thanks, has been a while since i last hold the 5s, so forgive my mistake.

▲AstroBen 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

hear me out: a low powered, larger screened iphone!