? Not conflating, just we want a phone with both goals ...
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replyEvery time Fairphone release new device I check width size. Still waiting for small device.
replyI wonder if Meta pays phone manufacturers under the table to keep their size large
replyThe overwhelming majority of consumers just prefer larger screens (myself included). People seem to forget that Apple releasing the Mini was them listening to the minority and the sales numbers if it were poor versus the rest of the lineup.
replyAnd why would Meta even do that?
- facilitate the infinite scroll
reply- remind you that the phone is in your pocket, to initiate the infinite scroll
Sorry but this is maximum level conspiratorial thinking. Meta probably has some created some incentive for OEMs to make larger screens by way of people liking content consumption but the idea that they’d be paying for that is ridiculous lol.
replyI forgive you I guess
replyI find reading ebooks and long texts like wikipedia a lot more enjoyable on my 6.8" AMOLED panel than on the smaller screens i've had before. You can also doomscroll on smaller screens.
replyOr maybe the majority of people buying a new damn phone every other week just prefer it'd be a tablet
replyJust today I giggled and reminisced over the old XDA Developers Nexus 7 posts about LTE and wifi calling hacks…the many few of us worked hard to only rely on a tablet! Ironically, there is now not a second of my day in which id find a folding phone useful or logistically feasible. Alas…13 years too late.
replyI think it's obvious that the target audience has a huge overlap...
replyHN readers aren't a huge demographic.
replyA huge overlap in two groups would obviously be at most 100% of the smaller group.
replyIs there a huge demographic for grapheneOS and/or fairphone? Let alone one that doesn't overlap with the archetypes that post here?
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