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The marketing shows what sells. People want to be 25, hot, in cool places with cool looking friends, with great lighting.

Also, satisfied people don't have any need to comment.

Yes; the mini phones never sold very well, yet there are always commenters that ask for it. There are no small phones on the market, even the asus zenphone - which used to be the best compact android - is just a big phone now.

I searched the gsmarena and it only lists 3 modern phones:

- Sony Xperia 10 VI

- Sharp Aquos sense8

- Ulefone Armor Mini

With the last one being the only one that is actually small, the former are just "not that big".

I'm not sure that this will sell well.

$0.25 fentanyl sells good. Doesn't mean it's what people need.

Fentanyl is a fascinating market case study because nobody actually wants fentanyl, they want oxycodone or heroin.

It's the "market data reveals that consumers actually want the cheapest shittiest airplane tickets" of drugs. And you can read that in a couple different ways.

"No wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame."