Comment on Apple loses top phonemaker spot to Samsung as iPhone shipments drop, research company says
moon@lemmy.cafe 4 weeks agoThe 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
kirklennon@kbin.social 4 weeks ago
No, that's precisely my point: they don't because no major phone manufacturer has simultaneously sold both a large and compact flagship. And when there are legitimately comparable models in different sizes, the smaller size fairly reliably sells better.
dustyData@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
That’s not true. Apple sold a mini version for several generations and consistently the mini was always the worst performing version.
kirklennon@kbin.social 4 weeks ago
The "mini" lineup was never truly comparable to the flagship product. The specific deficiencies varied with the year but they were all missing an entire camera, and cameras are one of the single most important features of an iPhone.
The mini phones were significantly and arbitrarily gimped to mark them as a distinctly (and quite visibly) lower tier phone.