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> Android is also quite a space waster compared to iOS. It's much less comfortable to use a small Android than a small iOS device.

Now in terms of reading I'm sure you're right, but on small iOS devices the bounding boxes around certain buttons are so unbelievably tight that I even see people who've been using an iPhone mini for years still have to press 4 times to get them to register. Never had that issue with small Androids.

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The minimum tap bounds for a button in the Apple Human Interface guidelines is 44x44 points. So the developer must of not followed those guidelines. The size of the screen shouldn’t have an impact on this.

must of?

Common spelling error of "must have" because in some accents "must've" and "must of" sound identical

Which "small Android" is the size of iPhone mini? The ones I have encountered were basically feature phones running Android that I can't remember a single model name. Android went big a lot earlier than iPhone did (iPhone 6/Plus). [Remember "phablet" was a word?]

Just the goddamn top bar in Android consumes (used to?) 30% of screen in landscape.

> Which "small Android" is the size of iPhone mini?

Unfortunately, only old ones. For Samsung, S8 is when the phones got really big. S7 (5.1 inch) and earlier were smaller than the iPhone 13 mini (5.4) My first Android was the original Galaxy S - comparitively tiny, but I definitely didn't struggle as much to tap buttons as on the 13 mini.

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