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>>jhoho+(OP)
47% percent of voters wanted a ~6" phone, and 12% of voters a ~7" phone.

I guess me and the remaining 41% of voters are still left wishing for 5" phones to make a comeback.

>>mhitza+lc
Supply chain has left us.

Since there's no new development happening with small phones, we'd have to settle for "older spec" screens (IE, new stock iPhone 5 screens, with none of the colour accuracy, frame-rate etc improvements from the last 10 years).

People don't like "old spec", so they'd probably not buy those devices.

If you're a small player, then you're downstream of the supply chain, you don't make the rules.

Chicken and Egg problem.

Ironically people think there's no market for small phones due to apple making a "small phone" which had a larger screen size than an iPhone 6.. which was when phones started getting too big for me, and many people I spoke to.

So, you make a small phone that isn't actually small, it sells like poop so you presume that people don't want small phones..

>>dijit+Oo
You know what, that is exactly what Lenovo executives were telling their customers right up until the moment that Apple released Retina devices. Lenovo swore in a blog post that because of the overall panel market it was quite impossible to put an IPS display in a laptop, then a few days later Apple released a 221 DPI 15" IPS MacBook Pro.

>>jeffbe+pq
Apple definitely has the grunt I'm talking about to push the supply chain to change.

>>dijit+zq
And Lenovo doesn’t?

>>MBCook+W22
If all thinkpads did the same thing, then maybe they would.

If it was the flagship laptop (t14s or x1 carbon) then, yeah.

Otherwise, no.

Lenovo is a smaller player by far than HP or Dell, and less focused than Microsoft or Apple (commanding lower prices on average also).

The most popular thinkpad is actually the E14, which is a budget notebook. Most finance departments can’t tell the difference and its usually developers getting the good hardware, so we have a warped perspective.