Originally Posted by VamosNicholas

Because the phones of yesteryear and the smartphones of today are both designed with the sole purpose of making phonecalls... Some people like the larger screens for browsing the net, watching videos, playing games, or viewing documents for work, whatever. Nobody is getting convinced to buy these phones with larger screens. If you want one, you buy one. But I guess that doesn't really apply to the Apple sheeple who just buy whatever Apple decides to put out.