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ShepherdPie@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

Maybe because people aren’t given a choice as everything is dictated by the manufacturers.

Slapping 10 year old hardware into a phone with a small screen is a guaranteed way to make people not buy your phone but that doesn’t mean people don’t want small screens, headphone jacks, replaceable batteries, etc. They just don’t want the garbage manufacturers lump in with these great features so that these phones don’t cut into their high-margin device sales.

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Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
You forget that all phones used to be small.

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- DJDarren@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  I had a 13 mini until a month ago. It’s one hell of a phone, and honestly, I’d still be using it if iPhones didn’t keep their value so well and weren’t such a shit company.
  
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  - Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    Cool.
    
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- paraphrand@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  “Dud” is really strong language. These companies have distorted metrics for what is a successful product.
  
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  - Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    Is it “strong language” when they made up 3% of iphone sales?
    
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    paraphrand@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    Well, Um. There are 3% of us!
    
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- ShepherdPie@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  
  You forget that all phones used to be small.
  
  I haven’t forgotten that. You may have forgotten that all phones came with swappable batteries, small screens, and headphone jacks and they sold millions of them for decades. That proves these are important features because they sold well, right?
  
  Also all those examples you gave apply to all phones, not just small one
  
  What does that even mean? All phones come with old hardware and are poorly built outside of a couple key features?
  
  Apple sold a 13 Mini, which was nearly identical to the 13, as much as is physically possible, and it was a dud.
  
  So identical that they were nearly the same price which could put a lot of buyers off if they feel like they’re getting less value for their money. Consumers also think that 1/4lb burgers are better than 1/3lb burgers because they’re bigger as A&W found out in the 1980s when trying to compete against McDonalds. “The market deciding” doesn’t mean anything rational happened or that it reflects reality. You’re simply cherrypicking the result you want and shaping it to fit your argument.
  
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  - Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    
    You may have forgotten that all phones came with swappable batteries, small screens, and headphone jacks and they sold millions of them for decades. That proves these are important features because they sold well, right?
    
    Important to consumers, yes. Important to OEMs? No, quite the opposite. I don’t think that applies to screen size.
    
    What does that even mean?
    
    What did you even mean if not to imply that people weren’t buying specifically large phones because they didn’t include these anti-features?
    
    So identical that they were nearly the same price which could put a lot of buyers off if they feel like they’re getting less value for their money
    
    Why would they feel like they were getting lass value when it was the size they wanted, and had everything else also?
    
    Consumers also think that 1/4lb burgers are better than 1/3lb burgers because they’re bigger
    
    So then you agree consumers want bigger phones?
    
    You’re simply cherrypicking the result you want and shaping it to fit your argument.
    
    Pot meet kettle.
    
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    ShepherdPie@midwest.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    
    Important to consumers, yes. Important to OEMs? No, quite the opposite. I don’t think that applies to screen size.
    
    If you believe this then why even argue against us with this “the market decided” BS argument in the first place? You’re arguing out of both sides of your mouth and contradicting your previous comments.
    
    What did you even mean if not to imply that people weren’t buying specifically large phones because they didn’t include these anti-features?
    
    I wasn’t implying anything. I stated that manufacturers put things like a headphone jack into a phone that seems like it was built by Fisher Price and then point to it’s lack of sales and claim “people don’t want headphone jacks”
    
    So then you agree consumers want bigger phones?
    
    Uh, no, I’m saying that consumers don’t always act rationally and make the best decisions which is why “market trends” can’t just be taken at face value. 1/4lb is actually smaller than 1/3lb if you weren’t aware, but consumers saw the bigger number and thought the smaller burger was the better value even though reality says otherwise.
    
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