Comment by roughly
18 hours ago
The typical iPhone Mini product cycle:
Make iPhone Mini -> Mini only accounts for 10% of sales -> Cancel iPhone Mini -> Notice that 10% of iPhone customers haven't updated for 3 or 4 cycles -> Make iPhone Mini -> Suffer crippling corporate amnesia -> <...>
I'm expecting the brain worms to reach step 4 of the corporate consciousness cycle around the next generation or so.
only the 12 and 13 had mini sizes, so not really. unless you are counting the SE1 as mini
Dimensions:
SE1: 123.8 x 58.6 x 7.6
Mini 13: 131.5 x 64.2 x 7.65
Counting the original SE as a mini is perfectly reasonable.
It's also quite clearly what the grandparent comment was referring to.
In that case the first six years of iPhone models were also minis. None were cancelled due to low sales. The original SE was also not cancelled due to low sales, it continued to sell extremely well for years after its release. Apart from the 12/13 minis, the only model that had low sales was the 5C, which is actually a little larger than the 5S.
The rule for the SE is that it always has the design of second most recent hardware design, regardless of size.
If Apple re-introduces a mini, that will be the first such 'cycle.'
I wonder if that was their attempt to make the iPhone SE have a legitimate place with the other iPhones? Not sure, but it is interesting that no matter what, they always sell the SE.
One can hope.