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Re:Ode to the M1 by paulmd on Sunday August 13, 2023 @02:46PM (#37112858)
Objectively he’s right and there’s a reason the iPhone mini was discontinued. The demand for mini phones is niche but very loud online. It isn’t economical to support a mainstream product for the handful of people who are actually willing to pay for that specific niche feature point.

Kinda like headphone ports and microSD slots on android phones. Are there models that do this? Yes! Is anyone willing to pay more for it? No! But they are very very loud online about it.

There do exist smaller android phones as well, just like a headphone port nothing is stopping you from buying one instead of complaining on the internet!

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Re:Ode to the M1 by LtWorf on Sunday August 13, 2023 @05:41PM (#37114825)
People want a small phone, but perhaps not if it costs like 6 phones? How is this hard to understand?

> Is anyone willing to pay more for it? No!

Is anyone willing to pick a phone over another (despite what paulmd's opinion might be)? YES.

> There do exist smaller android phones as well

No they don't. There is NOTHING on the market currently that is sized and priced like a samsung S5 mini today.

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Re:Ode to the M1 by paulmd on Sunday August 13, 2023 @05:58PM (#37114958)
> People want a small phone, but perhaps not if it costs like 6 phones? How is this hard to understand?

iphone mini wasn't priced like 6 phones, and it still didn't sell well. again, you can't seem to grapple with the reality here that what you want is a very niche thing and it doesn't sell well as a mass-market product regardless of price. that is, after all, why apple stopped making that size once again.

the iphone SE is about as small as the market wants. Below that is the domain of mini phones - which do exist, but mostly from smaller android vendors.

> No they don't. There is NOTHING on the market currently that is sized and priced like a samsung S5 mini today.

s5 mini: 131.1 x 64.8 x 9.1 mm

cubot pocket 3: 133.2 x 55 x 12.3mm

unihertz jelly pro: 92.4 × 43 × 13 mm

just with literally a few minutes of searching.

again: the whining is a lot more intense than the reality. you are being catered to, you just want a niche product to be as cheap or moreso than the mainstream products that sell a zillionty units.

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Re:Ode to the M1 by LtWorf on Sunday August 13, 2023 @07:23PM (#37115640)
> iphone mini wasn't priced like 6 phones

Still costs 4x than regular android phones.

> you can't seem to grapple with the reality

You can't seem to grapple with the reality that 839€ for a phone is completely insane, and not everybody is a rich spoiled person like you.

> unihertz jelly pro: 92.4 × 43 × 13 mm

Funny… I am returning a unihertz because of software issues (default google apps just crashing)… sure it's small… but I implied that stuff must work.

> just with literally a few minutes of searching.

Too bad that being rich and spoiled didn't enrich your brain uh?

I hope it's ok for you that unlike you, I knew what I was talking about.

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