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This race to the thinnest in mobile computing is going way too far for some years now, which sacrifices many things with no real gain: useful ports getting repl
by catdog 10y ago
This race to the thinnest in mobile computing is going way too far for some years now, which sacrifices many things with no real gain: useful ports getting replaced by clunky adapters, modular components are replaced with glue, heat dissipation getting more challenging and finally loosing space for putting in batteries. You even regularly see oddities such as camera lenses sticking out of the back of a phone, leaving them unprotected, people putting their phone into cases because this thin things terribly fit your hand during usage and finally people carrying around external batteries all the time because the device obviously carries too little of them.
Additionally, pushing the device to the thinnest possible by not protecting the battery well enough was AFAIK the root cause of the problem at hand.