<story><title>Apple resumes selling iPhone SE at lower $249 price on its clearance store</title><url>https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MP7X2LL/A/iphone-se-128gb-space-gray-unlocked</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>twblalock</author><text>Yes, the demand really is that low. People who want a smaller phone in 2019 are a very small yet very vocal minority.&lt;p&gt;If there was a large untapped market for smaller phones, then the limited number of small phones on the market would be selling a lot better than they actually are. Somebody would notice and start making more of them.&lt;p&gt;Like phones with physical keyboards, phones with small screens have become a niche product and they will probably disappear in the next few years.</text></item><item><author>dklsafhjskljfl</author><text>The upcoming sony xz4 compact may be the only small phone with premium components, and it&amp;#x27;s extremely frustrating. It&amp;#x27;s not even &amp;#x2F;that&amp;#x2F; small.&lt;p&gt;You can find small phones but they have terrible cameras, sub HD resolutions, and bargain basement SOCs.&lt;p&gt;Is the demand for a premium (or even mid range) small phone really that low?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>thedays</author><text>&amp;gt; Yes, the demand really is that low.&lt;p&gt;Do you have any evidence for that?&lt;p&gt;There are virtually no, modern, reasonably-specced and reasonably priced phones with smaller screens available currently, so it&amp;#x27;s no wonder they&amp;#x27;re not selling.&lt;p&gt;In the Android world, there&amp;#x27;s only a couple of low-end Nokia phones (Nokia 1 - 4.5&amp;quot; screen and Nokia 3 - 5.2&amp;quot; screen), low-end Samsungs like the Galaxy J3 and the high-end and expensive Sony XZ2 Compact available but these phones aren&amp;#x27;t available for sale in many shops or on many contracts. If the market doesn&amp;#x27;t produce modern smaller phones, then they can&amp;#x27;t be sold, so arguing that &amp;quot;the demand really is that low&amp;quot; is currently a circular argument.&lt;p&gt;I suspect that part of the reason why the resale value of older iPhones like the 6 and 6s are high is that a reasonable percentage of people, esp. women, want smaller phones like these iPhones which are still reasonably fast and quite usable. My girlfriend hates using large phones as she finds them too big to hold in one hand easily, and has kept using an old Android because of its 4.5&amp;quot; screen.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m a tall person - well over 6 foot - with largish hands and even I find it difficult to comfortably use a phone wider than 70mm. I also find the current trend of producing 18:9 ratio phones completely baffling, as it makes reaching the top of the screen impossible with one hand in situations like traveling on trains or buses. Widescreen videos are filmed in 16:9 ratio, so it would make much more sense to go back to 16:9 ratio phone screens.</text></comment>
<story><title>Apple resumes selling iPhone SE at lower $249 price on its clearance store</title><url>https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MP7X2LL/A/iphone-se-128gb-space-gray-unlocked</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>twblalock</author><text>Yes, the demand really is that low. People who want a smaller phone in 2019 are a very small yet very vocal minority.&lt;p&gt;If there was a large untapped market for smaller phones, then the limited number of small phones on the market would be selling a lot better than they actually are. Somebody would notice and start making more of them.&lt;p&gt;Like phones with physical keyboards, phones with small screens have become a niche product and they will probably disappear in the next few years.</text></item><item><author>dklsafhjskljfl</author><text>The upcoming sony xz4 compact may be the only small phone with premium components, and it&amp;#x27;s extremely frustrating. It&amp;#x27;s not even &amp;#x2F;that&amp;#x2F; small.&lt;p&gt;You can find small phones but they have terrible cameras, sub HD resolutions, and bargain basement SOCs.&lt;p&gt;Is the demand for a premium (or even mid range) small phone really that low?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kbrackbill</author><text>Do you have any insight as to why?&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m part of that minority and small phones seem better in so many ways. My hands are relatively big I think, but even with &amp;quot;small&amp;quot; phones now I can barely use them with one hand. The smaller screen uses less battery. Larger phones don&amp;#x27;t fit in pockets very well and result in a spot that wears through on my jeans where the corner of the phone pokes out from my pocket.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m really struggling to think of advantages to larger phones. I guess if you always carry around a purse&amp;#x2F;bag then the size doesn&amp;#x27;t matter as much, and if you had smaller hands then maybe one-handed use is just impossible regardless of the size. But what&amp;#x27;s the use case? It&amp;#x27;s not like a real computer where a larger screen means you can multitask better, since you can barely multitask anyway.</text></comment>