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Re:The Popularity of the 4.7″ iPhone by hombre_fatal on Thursday June 27, 2019 @01:49PM (#20296784)
> I don't get it! My hands are probably bigger than 95% of all humans, and I don't think a phone needs to be much bigger than the SE.

My reaction to this quote is to think of everyone without perfect eyesight, e.g. most people as they reach a certain age.

My parents love their plus-sized iPhones. Reading glasses + ticking some boxes in iPhones accessibility panel (like ++fontSize) let them participate in the digital world again.

Re:The Popularity of the 4.7″ iPhone by zoom6628 on Thursday June 27, 2019 @07:24PM (#20299949)
Maybe i missing something but that is what i remain disappointed about in iPhone UX. I cannot find any setting that reliably makes all system font larger to point i can at least read it. Im long sighted and do not wish to reach for my glasses everytime i need to check my phone. And this issue also present on iPads as well - iOS is not friendly to those who are neither blind nor 20/20. Makes me wonder what will happen to Apples share price when they wake one day and realise that all the teenies have gotten old and buying other phones because they cant read iPhones any more.

I loved my SE (would buy another one if i could read the thing) while i had it in 2016-2017 but the screen made my eyes go downhill noticeably and the nuisance of carrying multiple pairs of glasses everywhere made me replace it for a Android phone + BigFont app and problem solved.

How can such a brilliant company(Im a mac fanboi since late 70s) still be so useless on the mobile device UX?

Re:The Popularity of the 4.7″ iPhone by nextlevelwizard on Friday June 28, 2019 @02:45AM (#20302039)
There have always been specialized phones for the elderly. Literally no reason why rest of the people should suffer too large devices and I know the struggle. My mother started loosing her eye sight in past 5 years and is not legally blind. At this point even my previous iPhone6+ with max font is of little help only saving feature is speech recognition.
Re:The Popularity of the 4.7″ iPhone by owl57 on Thursday June 27, 2019 @04:17PM (#20298253)
Sure. But products targeted even at relatively small groups of mostly non-farsighted people (kids, teens, students) are not uncommon.