The "no headphone jack" group is like the "smaller phone" group - very loud but evidently small in actual numbers.
There are dozens of us. Dozens!
The thing is, Apple lied about why they got rid of the headphone jack, and the market lapped it up and subsequently coughed up the dough for their overpriced earbuds.
My LG V35 was thinner, lighter, and faster than the equivalent iPhone, but it still had an IP68 rating while keeping both a headphone jack and an SD card slot.
...but I /do/ think the rest of y'all maniacs deserve a choice, too, even if it's utterly unhinged, so ceteris paribus I'd rather you be able to have a 3.5 than not :P
The iPad I gave my grandmother is the best specced, fastest (other tablets with similar specs are not even nearly that smooth) and cheapest thing at the same time I could get her. She can use it perfectly well (but had big problems with inconsistencies on Android). I don't have to worry about her doing something to it (whereas the Android phone, which I locked down, still had to have factory resets every year or so - and support non-existent, updates gone).
The MacBook Air M1 I got for myself is running laps performance-wise around my other computer with i9 - and it doesn't even need a fan, and I can work 2 full days (16 hours) on a single charge - doing Node.js and React Native development so nothing lightweight. The display has no competition, period - and that alone would be a reason to prefer Apple. The keyboard is the best from modern laptops too (yeah they used to have problems there, not anymore), and the sound is godlike. This computer also has much better price-performance ratio than any other option on the market, and there's not a single comparable product for that price ($1200).
The iPhone is the same story, don't want to repeat myself.
That said, Apple sells tens of millions (hundreds of millions) of phones, and the amount of data they get on customer preference must be amazing.
They clearly don't feel like the "mini" market is worth spending that much time on. I'm glad to see they offer it, but it's clearly not their key product.
Most people I see making this argument assume that people not buying Apple’s mini offering in crazy numbers was a sign that there was no attraction to small phones. But there’s too many other variables to make that kind of assumption.
If we allow this kind of logical shortcut, smaller Google Pixels all vastly out-sold their bigger version, so smaller sizes have more attraction, right ?