Comment by _carbyau_
9 months ago
The issue is "bigger numbers" marketing. The story for much of smartphone history was the flagship had a bigger screen.
But then it hit the practicable limits of what people can pocket/hold-comfortably.
If you make a phone with a smaller screen but want to call it "flagship" then you'd better have some good marketing to reverse the perception.
Please note that Samsung flagship S24 is smaller than non-flagship A55 (the same release year)
I think the other thing is pretty much everyone has a smartphone android/ios, and so the rev model has changed for android its youtube/movies, and for ios its apple tv.