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Because the number 1 things users say when asked what they'd change about their phone: "I wish it was thinner"
by JohnTHaller 11y ago
Because the number 1 things users say when asked what they'd change about their phone: "I wish it was thinner"
- pilsetnieks 11y agoI have a suspicion that they couldn't change it for now even if they wanted to. There are articles claiming that the 5th and 6th (current) generation were already under development under Jobs. If it is so, then the 7th and 8th generations have also been in the pipeline for years now. Assuming Jobs presided over the trend for thinness, and the ID team continued that direction after his death, if they even listen to people become more vocal about thinness vs. battery life since 2014, they could have it influence the design of maybe the 8th or 9th generation. Remember that at those scales you don't have to just redesign a phone, you have to redesign supply chains, processes, fabrication methods and machines.
- donretag 11y agoI wish my phone was smaller. I hate big phones, and it was a challenge to find my current 4.7" Android. Never once was I worried about thinness.
- huxley 11y agoYeah, I mean, what the heck has miniaturization ever done for computing? I am struggling to think of a single thing in the entire history of computers that was made better by being designed or fabricated in a smaller or thinner form.