“because it was shit” if you look at the iPhone 13 and iPhone 13 mini they were essentially the same phone just in different sizes, while the sales of the mini stayed in the low 1 diget % the iPhone 13 was around 35-40% of all iPhone sales in it’s first year.

I agree with some of the things in your 2nd part it has nothing to do with small phones.

And not to say you said it but it came up in the article a couple times, comparing screen inch sizes to determine if a phone is big or not is flawed > the screen to body ratio increased a lot over the last year’s which means that a phone could have the same physical size with a bigger screen.

“Why can’t we go back to small phones”

Company releases small phone

“No one” buys it

Company stops making small phones

People complaining why there are no small phones