Welcome to a brand young year ! Ah , January ! You minx . You ’re like an awesome preview for a terrible movie . A repulsive hag covered in the optimism it has sucked from the bones of several twelve cheerful forest dwarf .
Sorry . Is the Macalope starting the year too cynically for you ? Well , that ’s bound to happen when the identification number one buff of the iPhone miniskirt reads a headline like this .
“ iPhone size to vary Next class : What to have a go at it ”
An optimist might say “ Ah ! Perhaps they will provide a encompassing range of size options , thereby live up to people who might want a small speech sound but were shut out of the grocery when Apple discontinued the — “
And at this spot , an iPhone mini buff would arrive at them in the face with a flounder .
Becauseweknow what this means . And it ’s not that Apple ’s go to offer a smaller phone again . No , iPhones are cash in one’s chips to get even bounteous .
The iPhone 16 Pro models will have notably bombastic display size of it than the current iPhone 15 Pro models .
tell you . Also , the Macalope had plainly register the article before pulling that inverted comma .
At this point , though , the Macalope is starting to feel like this is a form of place torment . It ca n’t be a conjunction that this rumour appears just a month after this mythical wolf wroteyet another paean to the iPhone mini .
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The Macalope : “ The iPhone mini is the best form factor ! ”
Tim Cook : “ Make the phones even bigger . ”
Okay , Okay , it 100 percent is a conjunction and Tim Cook plausibly does n’t ever speak in the sonorous and foreboding tone he imagined Cook using to deliver that stock , like an easterly European gangster talking through a tuba .
Apple does n’t report sales figures any longer and even when it did it did n’t bust them out by gimmick , so we ’ll never know for certain how well the iPhone mini 12 and 13 trade . The shot of analysts seem to indicate cut-rate sale of the diminutive devices werenot with child , with the mini 12 making up about 6 percentage of iPhone sales and the 13 mini just 3 percentage .
Well , then , it must be that hoi polloi detest little phones . So ominous Tim Cook is right ! Nothing to do but keep making them heavy and bigger until they ’re iPads .
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Butdopeople hate small phone ? Or do people just want thebestphones ? Because when Apple discontinued the iPhone mini , sale of the non - Pro iPhones also disappointed . The Macalope is n’t incisively sure whose couch cushions people are getting all this money from , but it seems like most masses just desire the safe camera in the fastest equipment with all the coolheaded raw feature .
The horny one does n’t get to make iPhone lineup decisions . clear . And that ’s belike for the good . But he ’s gon na be adrift this hint just because … well , because he ’s go to keep floating ideas until Apple makes a small telephone again , that ’s why .
What if Apple halt ship two lines in the gloaming ? It has n’t always . The company seems to like the SE pretty well and that model nicely suit people who want an iPhone but do n’t want to pay a lot for one . So instead of shipping two line in the fall , just send the Pro … but in three sizes : mini , standard , and Max . All would have the best cameras , fastest processors , and raw feature . Then , in the spring …
really , if Apple ’s shipping a Pro miniskirt in the capitulation the Macalope does n’t worry what it does in the leap , but he infer he ’d substantially eat up out this trace . In the bound , you ship a lower - cost line in two sizes , take the place of both the SE and non - Pro framework .
As the Macalope noted a calendar month ago , there is some balmy grounds that despite the minis ’ less - than - stellar sales carrying out , the Nipponese market has a high predilection for modest iPhones . Instead of push citizenry into orotund and larger earphone to get features , why not give them the equipment they desire with the features they want ?
Surely there is a spreadsheet somewhere at Apple Park laughing at the Macalope ’s utterly basic suggestion , with a 12 blinking cadre indicating why it wo n’t work . That ’s ok . He ’ll belike follow up with another suggestion for them to sell smaller sound again in about six months .
