If people are offered a 5.5 VS a 5.7, they’ll choose the 5.7. Between a 5.7 and a 5.9, they’ll choose the 5.9… That’s how we got here. Just sales numbers.
Not quite. The best selling phones every year - the regular iPhone - is pretty much the smallest phone on the market. The iPhone Plus sold even worse than the iPhone mini, but if your theory was correct it should have been the best selling phone. If you then go “yeah because it’s the cheapest iphone” then what you’re really saying is it’s not size that matters, it’s price.
People want features. Phone companies know this, so they artificially hold back the features that people really want for their bigger and more expensive phones, because they know if they make it bigger people will be ok paying more for it than if it was the same size but better spec’d. People see bigger and just assume it should be more expensive, so companies make phones bigger so people are ok with paying more for them.
Not quite. The best selling phones every year - the regular iPhone - is pretty much the smallest phone on the market. The iPhone Plus sold even worse than the iPhone mini, but if your theory was correct it should have been the best selling phone. If you then go “yeah because it’s the cheapest iphone” then what you’re really saying is it’s not size that matters, it’s price.
People want features. Phone companies know this, so they artificially hold back the features that people really want for their bigger and more expensive phones, because they know if they make it bigger people will be ok paying more for it than if it was the same size but better spec’d. People see bigger and just assume it should be more expensive, so companies make phones bigger so people are ok with paying more for them.