Comment by bigstrat2003
1 day ago
> No one is going to walk away from money that can be made even if the market is smaller.
Unfortunately the tech industry has shown us that isn't true. For example, look at the iPhone mini - I forget the exact sales numbers others have cited, but it sold very well. There is clearly a solid market there, even if it is smaller. But Apple isn't willing to chase it, and nor are the various Android OEMs. The same may well prove true for open hardware.
Sold very well for your home business is very different than sold very well for Apple. At the time the first Mini was released, when the previous regulat iPhone (5s) was available for cheap and the new Mini had few compromises not dictated by size, it was may be 1/6 of Apple’s sales in the first year and dropped precipitously after that. It never sold well.
> Apple isn't willing to chase it
They are, it returns next year as iPhone Fold for $2K.