I can’t flood all the sales channels with my products with only a few products though – That would require me to make a quality product people really liked and kept coming back for like an Iphone or pixel
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Zorque@kbin.social 7 months agoAre they all kind of the same, or do they serve different purposes?
I know people often complain about how there aren't any small phones anymore... that's often because, if a company only releases a phone once a year (or less) they're going to have a hell of a lot less variety. Because most companies are going to go for the general market, not the niche market.
lanolinoil@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Sadly I don’t think even with all these they have released a decent high performance small phone. At least not to US market.
dustyData@lemmy.world 7 months ago
No one big releases a small phone because no one buys them. Not even the people who whine and complaints about no small phone offering buys the small phones when they’re offered. It’s way too niche a market to break even.
kirklennon@kbin.social 7 months ago
No one big releases a small phone because no one buys them.
Except we don't have any good data to say why. Do people buy a bigger flagship over a smaller model that has older technology? Yes, but the only thing we can say with confidence from that is that people want the latest technology. The closest comparison we can make is Apple's Max/Plus and non-Max/Plus versions, which offer essentially the same model in two sizes. The smaller size consistently sells better. It's also cheaper. Does it sell better because it's smaller or because it's cheaper? Probably both, actually. But as long as nobody offers a small flagship (since Apple stopped making them entirely and switched to larger flagships), nobody can say for sure how well they'd sell.
moon@lemmy.cafe 7 months ago
The phone makers can say for sure because they have years of market and sales data on them, and a huge amount of r&d lol
dustyData@lemmy.world 7 months ago
We do. The smallest iPhones, back when the iPhone had three sizes versions were consistently the less sold, by a wide margin. They still had old new stock years after the production halted. Even the modern small phones specifically made to address that niche market, underperform and end up with unsold stock on hand, despite having small production runs to begin with. This is publicly available info you can find googling for a few seconds. There are extensive essays made by journalist that always start hopefully looking for the perfect small phone, and end up discovering that none are made because they don’t sell at all. There’s not enough people who want a small phone (and I’m one of those people) to even call it a niche market.
VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Different performance tiers and feature sets. You could spend anywhere from $100 to $1500.
The A series has a headphone jack, but doesn’t support wireless charging. Current tiers are 0, 1, 2, and 5. There used to be a tier 7, but that only lasted a generation or two. Tier 5 is close to S series performance, but much cheaper and with worse cameras.
The S series has a wireless charging, but no headphone jack. Comes in standard, plus, and ultra sizes. Better performance than the A series. All the same processor, but bigger sizes can mean more RAM, storage, and better cameras. These ones are billed as premium phones and have a premium price point.
The Fold and Flip are neat, but not generally worth the price. The Fold is better overall, but both have issues with creases. I’d generally recommend skipping the Flip. The Fold can be neat if you really want the larger screen, but an A or S series is generally a better choice.