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Folks need to understand Apple. They do not follow trends just to follow trends. They do not put out products in every niche. Never have. Never will.
They did go from 3.5 to 4, a rare move. Not just to be larger, but to go to 16:9 the ration for HD content. They didn't change the width at all. Even at that, it caused developers to have to support two sizes which is something Apple has tried to minimize.
When Apple went Retina on both iPhone and then iPad, the pixels were exactly twice the resolution in each dimension. Thus apps created for one scale to the other seamlessly. Apple apps are designed pixel by pixel. Android designed for objects to scale and automatically move around to accommodate the wild wild west of screen sizes, ratios, and resolutions.
The iPad mini came out at the resolution of the original iPad...such that iPad apps still look and work great on it.
Apple also prioritizes single handedness.
They may eventually come out with a larger phone. They will do it when they have either perfected some scaling algorithms such that 1.x times scaling will still perform and look good. Or when they can double the resolution again.
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