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Still holding onto my 13 mini. Dreaming of another small form factor release one of these announcements.. :'}
It took me a second to even process why someone might say such a thing about my case-less generic 12 mini. Most of my close friends have 13 mini’s so I often feel my wife’s “regular” size iPhone is the odd one out.
No mention of the amount of onboard RAM. (In this press release or in https://www.apple.com/iphone-17e/specs/ .)
Occasionally there’s a feature that requires a minimum amount of RAM like Apple Intelligence but that’s the exception.
Still holding onto my 13 mini. Dreaming of another small form factor release one of these announcements.. :'}
Just upgraded from a 12 mini to a 13 mini with more storage. I intend for it to last another 5 years.
I refuse to have a phone I have to constantly carry, hold, or move from back pocket when I sit. This damn thing is in my hands enough, I don’t need to increase the surface area for potential distractions.
> and double the starting storage at 256GB Is massive storage on a mobile device really still a thing that's important? I'm saying this as someone with 512GB, but I just checked and I'm using 85GB at the moment, including the OS. Photos and videos are the likely reason why the phones have so much storage, but these days both apple and google offer decent cloud backup solutions which negates the need for massive on-de…
Also, cloud service typically move your older stuff to colder/slower storage which are painfully slow to retrieve whenever you decides to do it. I realized this when browsing some old pictures before closing a google account I had not been using for years except emptying the gmail inbox every few months.
I personally prefer having a local copy of my files and syncthing them to my NAS at home (which is itself backuped in a storage in the cloud).
Apple seems to be pushing for accessibility and volume. Cheaper phones, mac minis, and entry point mac that will be introduced on Wednesday.
Still holding onto my 13 mini. Dreaming of another small form factor release one of these announcements.. :'}
It always surprises me that the mini was ~1% of sales and yet the pro mini comments get so many upvotes
Spring 2020, they released the iPhone SE 2020, 4 years after the previous iPhone SE. This satiated a lot of the demand for people holding out for a smaller phone. Then came the surprise with 12 mini in September of 2020, except the battery life and performance sucked, garnering bad reviews.
Then, finally in September 2021, they released the 13 mini, an objectively good, smaller phone. But over the previous 18 months, a lot of the buyers for the 13 mini had already bought the 2020 SE or were burned by the 12 mini.
Waiting for the first pro line phone with both the Apple modem and Apple wifi/BT stack in it. Battery life is always a struggle when the phone gets older.