It always surprises me that the mini was ~1% of sales and yet the pro mini comments get so many upvotes

MagicMoonlight a few seconds ago | parent | next [-]

Crazy people fixate. It’s why you get people talking about how 4o was the best AI model ever and crying for it to be brought back. (It had no internal thinking process and would believe you are the messiah without question)

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layer8 24 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It was 3-5%, if I remember the numbers correctly. There are rumors that the Air didn’t sell better.

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roughly 32 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

1% of iPhone sales is more people than live in most countries.

	▲	r0fl 14 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Yes but 99% of non mini users upvote other things

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lotsofpulp an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

The release schedule was crap, as well as the 12 mini being an objectively bad phone.

Spring 2020, they released the iPhone SE 2020, 4 years after the previous iPhone SE. This satiated a lot of the demand for people holding out for a smaller phone. Then came the surprise with 12 mini in September of 2020, except the battery life and performance sucked, garnering bad reviews.

Then, finally in September 2021, they released the 13 mini, an objectively good, smaller phone. But over the previous 18 months, a lot of the buyers for the 13 mini had already bought the 2020 SE or were burned by the 12 mini.