No Pressure

Thursday, May 3, 2012

Analyst Brian Marshall, to SFGate’s Jun Yang:

As the markets get more saturated, the pressure will be much stronger to add more screen sizes.

"Today, the answer is no," he said. "Down the road, the answer is yes," he said.

No way.

The only source of pressure on Apple to do anything is the company’s own design language and direction. If they ever made iPhones with larger screens, it would be for their own reasons, like maybe the retina display deserves a slightly larger screen on which to show off its awesomeness.

But there’s already the iPad for that.

It won’t ever be to reach “lower-cost segments” like another analyst told Yang, because Apple’s strategy for that is to slice the price of older iPhone models to the bone whenever a new one comes out. There’s your lower-cost segment. They’ve been doing it for some time now, with narry a > 3.5 inch screen in sight.

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