alt Hacker NewsI understand the confusion, but isn't this kind of similar to asking does the iPhone 14 Max beat the iPhone 16 Mini? At least with phones there are hard specs we can use to compare, but in a lot of cases the answer will be "it depends"
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> does the iPhone 14 Max beat the iPhone 16 Mini?
Sure, in a hypothetical world where the latest Max phone is two generations older than the latest Mini phone. In which case now you have to evaluate not only screen size but ALSO specs and component age and software support etc. How badly do you need the bigger screen? Etc
If you are comparing the iPhone 16 Max to the iPhone 16 Mini, everything is a lot easier.
> iPhone 16 Mini
I wish
Yeah, but shouldn't then all 4 tiers be released at once? So we get 6.1 for all Luna/Terra/Sol/Astra?
It's more like if Apple called the iPhone 16 the "iPhone 14 16 edition"
I mean yes, phone manufacturers have the same problem.
No. It’s not similar at all.
At least there is a simple system - the words 'Mini' and 'Max' are intended to refer to the size of the item (that one is miniature, and the other is their maximum size).
If they were called iPhone 14 Luna and iPhone 16 Sol then this is less clear.
Or on the flipside, if the models were called GPT 6.1 Mini and GPT 6.1 Max, nobody would be arguing about the names being hard to grok. The words 'mini' or 'small' are more descriptive than 'Luna' or 'Terra'.