<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tablespoon</author><text>&amp;gt;&amp;gt; I don&amp;#x27;t understand when did the ability to choose a product fitting your preferences become a bad thing on HackerNews&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Because so many on HN have been indoctrinated into the &amp;quot;scale at all costs&amp;quot; mentality.&lt;p&gt;HN also has many fanboys that slavishly celebrate the decisions of certain prestigious companies as the best possible ones, because that prestigious company made it.  Other decisions can be assumed to be inferior because, if they had merit, the company would have picked that instead.&lt;p&gt;IMHO, a lot of technology has plateaued, to the point where the hip new thing is objectively a regression that just looks different.</text><parent_chain><item><author>reaperducer</author><text>&lt;i&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t understand when did the ability to choose a product fitting your preferences become a bad thing on HackerNews&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Because so many on HN have been indoctrinated into the &amp;quot;scale at all costs&amp;quot; mentality.&lt;p&gt;It demonstrates the difference between HN and the real world.&lt;p&gt;On HN, if you can&amp;#x27;t serve a billion people, your product is niche.  In the real world, billions of people earn a very nice living making niche products.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s why so many people on HN don&amp;#x27;t understand Panic, or its PlayDate.  They don&amp;#x27;t understand artisan anything.  They&amp;#x27;ve forgotten the whole hipster movement, which still exists in pockets of the world.  They can&amp;#x27;t grok that there are companies that have been in business for hundreds of years making products one at a time — by hand.&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;X doesn&amp;#x27;t scale&amp;quot; is HN for &amp;quot;I know nothing about how the world works.&amp;quot;</text></item><item><author>izacus</author><text>These &amp;quot;slow iPhone 13 mini&amp;quot; sales are more than all Google Pixel phones sold in a year. Think about that.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t understand when did the ability to choose a product fitting your preferences become a bad thing on HackerNews and modern American perception. Why is being able to buy niche products somehow not a worthy thing to be desired?</text></item><item><author>perardi</author><text>&lt;i&gt;“matching size and design of iPhone 13 Mini”&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;So, by all accounts, the iPhone mini has been an extremely slow seller.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.macrumors.com&amp;#x2F;2022&amp;#x2F;04&amp;#x2F;21&amp;#x2F;iphone-13-mini-unpopular-march-quarter&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.macrumors.com&amp;#x2F;2022&amp;#x2F;04&amp;#x2F;21&amp;#x2F;iphone-13-mini-unpopula...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Why would that form factor succeed in the Android space?&lt;p&gt;---&lt;p&gt;I see these meme on tech sites all the time: “oh phones are too big I just want something simple”. That is a valid sentiment that I think is shared by basically no average consumer. For a &lt;i&gt;lot&lt;/i&gt; of people, phones are their primary computing devices, so a big screen is nice there. Bigger phones allow for more battery capacity. Aging populations like them because you can use screen zoom features to really blow up that text size without making the effective viewport too small.&lt;p&gt;And…people just like big stuff. I know that’s simplistic and a little condescending, but then look at SUV and truck sales.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>I want an iPhone Mini-sized Android phone</title><url>https://smallandroidphone.com/</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>disharko</author><text>Also consider he&amp;#x27;s specifically appealing to makers of premium phones - you can bet Google and Samsung care a lot about scale. And to the parent&amp;#x27;s point about the iPhone 13 mini&amp;#x27;s sales still being more than all Pixels: ok, so then consider the already much smaller Pixel market share and how many people are left at the % of iPhone sales that the mini made up.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;d love for this to happen, signed the petition, and will hope for the best, but I think even if there would be a decent market for this the big players don&amp;#x27;t care to make that bet.</text><parent_chain><item><author>reaperducer</author><text>&lt;i&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t understand when did the ability to choose a product fitting your preferences become a bad thing on HackerNews&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Because so many on HN have been indoctrinated into the &amp;quot;scale at all costs&amp;quot; mentality.&lt;p&gt;It demonstrates the difference between HN and the real world.&lt;p&gt;On HN, if you can&amp;#x27;t serve a billion people, your product is niche.  In the real world, billions of people earn a very nice living making niche products.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s why so many people on HN don&amp;#x27;t understand Panic, or its PlayDate.  They don&amp;#x27;t understand artisan anything.  They&amp;#x27;ve forgotten the whole hipster movement, which still exists in pockets of the world.  They can&amp;#x27;t grok that there are companies that have been in business for hundreds of years making products one at a time — by hand.&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;X doesn&amp;#x27;t scale&amp;quot; is HN for &amp;quot;I know nothing about how the world works.&amp;quot;</text></item><item><author>izacus</author><text>These &amp;quot;slow iPhone 13 mini&amp;quot; sales are more than all Google Pixel phones sold in a year. Think about that.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t understand when did the ability to choose a product fitting your preferences become a bad thing on HackerNews and modern American perception. Why is being able to buy niche products somehow not a worthy thing to be desired?</text></item><item><author>perardi</author><text>&lt;i&gt;“matching size and design of iPhone 13 Mini”&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;So, by all accounts, the iPhone mini has been an extremely slow seller.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.macrumors.com&amp;#x2F;2022&amp;#x2F;04&amp;#x2F;21&amp;#x2F;iphone-13-mini-unpopular-march-quarter&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.macrumors.com&amp;#x2F;2022&amp;#x2F;04&amp;#x2F;21&amp;#x2F;iphone-13-mini-unpopula...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Why would that form factor succeed in the Android space?&lt;p&gt;---&lt;p&gt;I see these meme on tech sites all the time: “oh phones are too big I just want something simple”. That is a valid sentiment that I think is shared by basically no average consumer. For a &lt;i&gt;lot&lt;/i&gt; of people, phones are their primary computing devices, so a big screen is nice there. Bigger phones allow for more battery capacity. Aging populations like them because you can use screen zoom features to really blow up that text size without making the effective viewport too small.&lt;p&gt;And…people just like big stuff. I know that’s simplistic and a little condescending, but then look at SUV and truck sales.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>I want an iPhone Mini-sized Android phone</title><url>https://smallandroidphone.com/</url></story>