The founder of Apple, Steve Jobs believed that the smartphone should be small to fit in the hand. For this reason, the giant "apple" of long time leave only the 3.5 inches of iPhone models. IDC analysts, who think it's a big mistake of the legendary entrepreneur.
Analysts drew attention to the growing trend of фаблетов's popularity and the rapid decline in sales of small smartphones. IDC expects that, in 2019, global smartphone supplies with those programmed on 4-inch diagonals and less will fall to 5.4 million units, with 18.8 million units in 2016 and 86.1 million in 2015-m By the year 2020, Smartphones less than 4 inches or disappear, or that their participation will be very small.
Most people often prefer larger ones on smartphones as they are convenient for games and watching videos. According to IDC, in the year 2017 the segment volume of smartphones with screens size 5 to 5.5 inches will increase to 593 million devices with 447 million units in 2015-m In 2021 year of issuance of this electronics Will be measured 731 million units of smartphones with 5.5- to 6-inch displays were even further published - 749 million copies.
Steve Jobs at the time scoffed at expanding phones. In 2010, when the "antenna" scandal broke out with the iPhone 4, the founder of Apple has raised in the laughter of a journalist, спросившего on the possibility of increasing the size of a smartphone for better reception of the signal. Jobs, then did not stop pinching Samsung produced by Galaxy S phones, called "hammers." "You can not take it in your hand," he said. "No one wants to buy such."
The first iPhone model, released in 2007, the screen size was 3.5 inches. They were the same screens of iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4 and iPhone 4s. At the end of 2012 (a year after the death of jobs) has followed the iPhone 5. The size of its screen, against the founder of Apple, has increased by 0.5 inches. In 2014, Apple has not diagonally iPhone 6 before 4.7 inches. In addition, tim cook, introduced "apple" планшетофон with a 5.5-inch screen. Although for jobs the size of a smartphone was absolutely unacceptable.
The popularity of фаблетов experts link to the possibility of using them to replace the phone and tablet, and with the fact that in these devices it is convenient to watch the video.
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