Comment by Dylan16807
1 hour ago
> Bro the Mini was a flop for Apple, it could barely surpass 5% of all iPhone sales during its run.
They were making the SE at the exact same time as the mini, two years in a row, and the mini still got billions in sales. If they want a bigger percent, then do it less often and don't split the demand. It's been four and a half years since they did either mini or SE. People would buy plenty.
> leave money on the table
> opportunity cost
If it cost them that much to have extra models, they wouldn't have five iphone 16 variants that are all just different enough to need five internal layouts. And four 17 variants plus the air.
Don’t know what else to say here I guess you and the others here know more than Tim Cook does.
That's a weird statement. Do you think knowing the most about something inevitably leads you to a specific decision? It doesn't.
And this isn't something that would affect their revenue particularly much. So while it's possible I've missed an important factor, even if I'm 100% right it could make sense for most people to say "do the option that leads to more happy customers, while still making boatloads of money", while a CEO says "we have enough happy customers, go for the extra sliver of money". Or an extra payment from Meta or whatever, I wasn't really talking about that idea, I was just arguing against their abandonment of small phones. The point is, don't use CEOs to guide your intuition of what decisions are best.