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by LordKeren 656 days ago
As someone who likes the smaller phone form factor, it was a real bummer that they’re discontinuing this size. But on the other hand, as someone who needs to accommodate mobile UI, the mini was a bit of a thorn in my side. Conflicted
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Such is life of the mobile developer though, or really any other developer. You have to accomodate multiple view port sizes or just write your code in a way that scales correctly. For example it used to be common for mobile apps to use the off the shelf ui tooling from the os vendor and use stuff like html for their pages within the app of whatever else. That stuff has always scaled perfectly. Its the new sexy stuff that has trouble but its not necessary to write code like that.
The mini has the same logical resolution as the 11 Pro, and the current SE3 has a significantly smaller screen. Not sure I see your point.