• BlueBaggy
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    8 hours ago

    “Why can’t we go back to small phones”

    Company releases small phone

    “No one” buys it

    Company stops making small phones

    People complaining why there are no small phones

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      2 hours ago

      Don’t forget that company does fuck all in advertising the small phone at a similar level as the “regular sized” phone

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      6 hours ago

      no one bought it because it was shit. companies do this all the time so they can make more expensive things more cheaply, and force people into buying the most expensive.

      I want an easily removable battery. As in, I want to be able to have two batteries, one in my phone and another in a charger and I just swap them once a day. I used to be able to do that, and it was normal. Now, the only phones that have that are either extremely garbage or also feature a barcode scanner and cost as much as a “flagship” device.

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        5 hours ago

        “because it was shit” if you look at the iPhone 13 and iPhone 13 mini they were essentially the same phone just in different sizes, while the sales of the mini stayed in the low 1 diget % the iPhone 13 was around 35-40% of all iPhone sales in it’s first year.

        I agree with some of the things in your 2nd part it has nothing to do with small phones.

        And not to say you said it but it came up in the article a couple times, comparing screen inch sizes to determine if a phone is big or not is flawed > the screen to body ratio increased a lot over the last year’s which means that a phone could have the same physical size with a bigger screen.

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          3 hours ago

          I think I may have just done a bad job of explaining my first point:

          I’m saying that manufacturers are putting these features on phones that people weren’t going to buy anyway on purpose, in order to support the narrative that nobody wants those features.

          There’s counter examples of course, but for the most part I think what I said is applicable.