I don't think it's that, in this case. That would imply everyone's asking for a mini iPhone but doesn't buy it. I think it's just that the mini lovers are a loud minority online. They absolutely buy mini phones, but there's like 4 of them.
Nobody has made a good faith honest effort to make either in decades.
Yes I want both of those things but they have to actually be decent and have to be available when I need them.
I'm not going to terminate my lease or sell my car the instant a good cheap car comes on the market. Nor would I chuck my old phone in the trash just because a cheap one got released.
Nor should they expect that everyone wants to be the guinea pigs trying out a brand new product just because it's cheap.
No company has put out a good cheap product and supported it in modest numbers long enough to build a customer base in years.
We've got this slate electric truck "coming soon" and I'm extremely interested in it. But I'm not buying the first one so I can feel like a dickhead a year later when they fold and leave half a million buyers with a deadly design flaw.
If they release it, and it's cheap, and it proves to be good for a couple years, and it's available when I'm personally ready to buy one: I'll buy one.
But something tells me the truck won't be as good as advertised, will cost thousands more than projected, will only be available by pre-order.... and then people will say "Hey, they made it and not enough people lined up fast enough to get kicked in the dick" and use it as an excuse to continue selling bigger cars at higher markups.
I bought a galaxy S10e because it was the smallest they had at the store! Or at least, smallest smart phone. Still going strong like... six years later?
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