<story><title>The Popularity of the 4.7″ iPhone</title><url>https://david-smith.org/blog/2019/06/24/the-popularity-of-the-4-dot-7-inch-iphone/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>robohoe</author><text>Prices is a big deal these days. Most iPhones X derivitives are hitting $1000 real fast. For those of us that don’t want to pay $29.99&amp;#x2F;mo just to rent a phone for 2 years and would prefer to buy outright that’s cost prohibitive.&lt;p&gt;Also all the big phones barely fit in pants pockets. For males, maybe, but for females, forget about it - 50% of the phone sticks out of the back pocket.&lt;p&gt;5.5” and more phones are too big to be a phone, and too small to be a useable tablet.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dijit</author><text>I mean. It’s not cost that makes me choose my SE; I would pay $1000 for a good 4&amp;quot; phone.&lt;p&gt;Apple seems to believe its cost that keeps the SE relevant, and tried to tap the market with the XR... but very few budged it seems.</text></comment>
<story><title>The Popularity of the 4.7″ iPhone</title><url>https://david-smith.org/blog/2019/06/24/the-popularity-of-the-4-dot-7-inch-iphone/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>robohoe</author><text>Prices is a big deal these days. Most iPhones X derivitives are hitting $1000 real fast. For those of us that don’t want to pay $29.99&amp;#x2F;mo just to rent a phone for 2 years and would prefer to buy outright that’s cost prohibitive.&lt;p&gt;Also all the big phones barely fit in pants pockets. For males, maybe, but for females, forget about it - 50% of the phone sticks out of the back pocket.&lt;p&gt;5.5” and more phones are too big to be a phone, and too small to be a useable tablet.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bagacrap</author><text>Women more often have hand bags to carry the phones in. If I carried a purse I&amp;#x27;d probably like a bigger phone too.</text></comment>