In June of 2010 Apple was rolling out their iPhone 4. Samsung released the Galaxy S and Motorola had the Droid X. In the Q&A session at the Apple announcement they were talking about “antenna-gate” and the new iPhone. Someone asked the question “shouldn’t Apple be making a larger phone?”. To which Steve Jobs replied ” making a phone so big “you can’t get your hand around it” helps
, but that “no one’s going to buy that.” He was talking about the 4 inch Galaxy and the 4.3 in Droid. He took it farther by calling them “Hummers”
This month everyone is excited to hear about the iPhone 6. Will it be greater than 4.3 inches? How will you hold it? What Would Steve Jobs Say?
A few months later after all of Apple’s major competitors had announced or rolled out a 7 inch tablet Mr. Jobs was asked if there would be a 7 inch iPad;
“The reason we [won’t] make a 7-inch tablet isn’t because we don’t want to hit that price point
, it’s because we think the screen is too small to express the software,” Jobs said on Monday’s quarterly earnings conference call