Flagship iPhones are premium products. Many "regular users" don't see value in getting a $/€1k phone every couple of years - this is the entire point of this thread.

I don't disagree, but the market placement of the iphone has nothing to do with the continued poor sales of the mini series every time it's been tried.

And the mini ran for multiple generations and none of them sold well.

Much like the 3.5mm jack, people just cannot admit that it's not a very popular idea. Extremely popular among a very small niche, incredibly unpopular if not actively dispreferred outside of it.

Did you know iPhones used to have 3.5" screens? They sold fine. Did you know the SE still has a 4.7" screen? It sells fine.

OK? Well, the iphone mini series did not sell fine, objectively so. It was a bad seller even with the bump from the novelty of apple releasing a mini, and it declined even further the next generation. Probably at minimum it's not worth doing more than one every couple generations.

idk why you guys are continuing to rage at the messenger here, I'm not the one who canceled it and the reason it was canceled is widely acknowledged. Your refusal to accept reality does not constitute a problem on my part.