There is literally nothing about my Mini that catches the same attention my 13”M4 had before trade-in, literally had a dumbass who held it and had some damn scheme to keep it at my now old job based on the dumbass’s actions. Can’t fucking steal an Apple Product so it shouldn’t have been tucked away like I wasn’t coming back for it. I digress.
The Mini fucking sucks across the board no matter how in love I am with the form factor in comparison. I could watch shit if the speakers didn’t suck despite having 4, battery life is TERRIBLE and I frequently feel it getting hot and warm, I can live with a mid front camera if the bezels weren’t the width of my pinky finger nail, the rear sensor for document scanning should be a fucking standard, and the screen just sucks. It doesn’t need 120hz yet for more sales, it needs to finally not SUCK IN QUALITY, with it being a tiny tablet, I’d rather fucking not have my battery health go to shit unnecessarily because “wahhh PROMOTION” when I know Apple’s product research team probably sees that shit everywhere and thinks “now why are you not buying the Pro device for those niche cases, complaining about something most people genuinely didn’t care about when it came to iPhones..?”
I swear the root of this conversation is MKBHD and Linus Tech Tips years ago when they’re just YouTubers with a lot of views, and had a hard time even admitting being wrong about something that also made them pretty unpopular on Reddit over time, but still have their bullshit takes being treated like gospel. I still laugh about MKBHD going “this is it, finally! With iPhones getting promotion the average consumer will care about 120hz and it’d take off!” When instead they went “where’s more OLED? My phone looks better than my TV now”
Don’t even get me started when the high refresh rate crowd jumped into screaming about movie and animation frame rates afterwards, using tools to make videos look like shit, basically ruining the idea to most people of going beyond 24fps. The more you complain, the more it becomes a calling card more than an innovation to push. People can’t even get consistent performance out of their consoles right now while paying more, you gotta read the room when Apple gotta focus on AI or legally suffer right now from false advertising during a chip and memory shortage.
iPadOS28 is definitely going to be focused on fixing multitasking, leading to that OLED 120hz Mini 9/10 because even the base iPad has some catching up to do, it still isn’t a laminated display ffs, plus, I’ve been having people come to me complaining about the Apple Pencil support on it because it’s confusing to them and they get frustrated learning Apple basically gave them the finger just because they got the cheap one to start with.
Also there’s the upcoming fold that’s going to bring back that 2000-2010s fragile iPhone memes and roasts more than likely, I don’t see that lasting long as a product, but it’d be the perfect time to push a Mini as a companion to a base iPhone to regain interest while upselling a whole powerful iPad, Apple Watch, AirPods, and iPhone to someone new to the ecosystem. Patience my dudes, there’s literally nothing to scream about right now unless you had better success than me or Apple at convincing most people. The industry is full of shareholders sucking their own dicks right now to a point Apple can’t even be Apple.