[crossroadsguy]

I also don’t understand who would have wanted a 4 inch then a 5 inch then 6 then 7 and maybe 8 inches phones while their palms remained exactly of the same size. Sometimes I feel people just want weird shit. And yeah new things. Just “new” things - otherwise Apple’s non-upgrade upgrade phones will go unsold.

[16bitvoid]

I feel the trend to bigger phones is probably indicative of phones being the sole computing device for more and more people. Anecdotal, but one example is my parents. I've watched them go from having desktops to laptops to iPads while they kept getting the biggest iPhone available. Now, their phones are pretty much all they use (outside of a smart TV and an Amazon Echo).

[walthamstow]

My parents and all their peers (born early 60s or before) have the biggest phone they can buy because they have the font size set to the largest setting.

[Levitz]

Simple, Marketing creates demand.

The vast majority of the population doesn't need the kind of computing beast they are using, but it is what gets sold to them. Everybody in society gets a phone and the vast majority of them are technologically illiterate, it's absurd to think that organic demand directs direction in the phone market.

[wiseowise]

Because palm size is what dictated size of original phones, not technological advancements allowing for bigger, affordable, higher quality phones?