The iPhone SE is dead, and with it, the compact smartphone as a mainstream product. What happened?
  • atomicbocks@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    13 days ago

    I don’t understand why so many people here keep saying that it’s too hard to make a small phone when all these companies literally make watches with 5G connections…

    • acosmichippo@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      13 days ago

      i don’t think it’s “too hard” to make small phones. but i bet it’s easier to sell bigger phones with more profit margin.

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.socialEnglish
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    13 days ago

    Why can’t we have both? I want a bigger phone. Bigger than what I have now, and many people would consider this to be a fairly large phone.

    But I don’t want to stop people who want smaller phones from having those, too.

    • scarabic@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      13 days ago

      I’d like to see more options out there. But there are reasons it could be difficult. I’ve been a software dev for 25 years and we’ve had take our software from local installs to web services, then mobile web services or responsive interfaces for all screen sizes. Then mobile APPs came along… and we do have to decide which devices and screen sizes we’re going to support. It’s hard to justify spending 20% more time so that you can support 2% more people. And for my app anyway that’s how many tablet users we have. 2%. So we’ve never done tablets, period. If we had to support some phones that were 3x the size of others, that would be kinda hard too, and we’ll always choose to spend the bulk of our time where the bulk of our users are.

      Just a real answer. Supporting different screen sizes isn’t free.