What, no Mini? Apple’s large occasion leaves small-phone followers empty handed

I bear unhealthy information if you happen to’d fairly not stroll round feeling like you could have a brick in your pocket: Apple appears to be bailing on its smallest smartphone over again.

That’s proper. The $2.5 trillion firm’s large fall occasion got here and went in the present day with no point out of a brand new Mini. Instead, Apple is “going big with the iPhone 14 and even bigger with the iPhone 14 plus,” CEO Tim Cook declared in the course of the agency’s splashy keynote.

Cook wasn’t being literal; The newest iPhones aren’t noticeably larger than they had been final 12 months (although over the past few iterations, the Max has gained .45 mm in depth.) But iPhone consumers have one much less possibility this time round if they need one thing small with all the most recent options. There is not any iPhone 14 Mini, and competing smartphone traces (e.g.: Google’s Pixel and Samsung’s Galaxy telephones) provide no appropriate options. It’s sufficient to make small-hand-havers weep.

No, no, I’m not crying — I’ve one thing in my eye!

Actually, I’ve giant palms and I nonetheless favor units just like the Mini. They’re simpler to function single handedly, extra pocketable and usually cheaper than their phabletized counterparts. Plus, I discover smaller telephones a smidge much less hypnotizing, so that they’re simpler to place down after I understand I’ve spent the final hour misplaced in Instagram.

Hypothetically, Apple may have one thing sudden within the works. It may shock us with a small telephone within the spring, prefer it did in 2016 with the resurrection of the iPhone 5 kind issue. But I wouldn’t wager on that, given the Mini’s apparently weak sales and Apple’s propensity for bulkier, laptop-priced hand computer systems like the brand new iPhone 14 Pro Max.

For numerous people, an enormous gadget is completely wonderful — and if you happen to do favor such a telephone, please know that you’ve my help. A bigger display makes it simpler to observe movies and verify emails on the go. Plus, hefty units have extra room for beefier batteries and digital camera methods.

Or perhaps, simply perhaps, you need a colossal telephone to interrupt within the king-sized pockets in your new fashion cargos.

I’m not right here to evaluate anybody, other than the decision-makers at Apple. They deserted the smaller iPhone SE again in 2018, and now they appear to be repeating historical past by bailing on the Mini. I’m inconsolable.

As the Mini fades, you may nonetheless choose up last year’s model. But if you need slightly telephone from Apple with all the most recent specs, you’re contemporary out of luck.