The lower-than-expected iPhone sales Apple reported last quarter predictably led to a series of panicky demands from analysts that Apple release an iPhone with a bigger screen to stave off the grave threat of Samsung and its Galaxy Note phablets. InfoWorld’s Galen Gruman, however, doesn’t think that releasing a phablet will guarantee a major iPhone sales boost and he’s got some data to back it up. Despite all the hype surrounding phablets, Gruman finds that they’re essentially a niche market, even for phablet pioneer Samsung. “Even in the Android world, the big-screen smartphone is not the red-hot seller you might think,” he writes. “Neither Samsung nor Apple reveals the breakdown for each model, but by triangulating various market researchers reports
No, Apple doesn’t ‘need’ to make a phablet
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