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Not disagreeing, but: Dear Apple, enough with the thinner! I don't need or want my iPhone to be any thinner, I'd rather it not bend and I'd rather have a head

Not disagreeing, but: Dear Apple, enough with the thinner! I don't need or want my iPhone to be any thinner, I'd rather it not bend and I'd rather have a headphone jack. I don't need or want my MacBook to be any thinner than ~2015 MBPs; I care about weight, about a decent keyboard, and about convenient ports. I don't care about it being 5mm thicker or thinner.

BenFrantzDale 8y ago
I’ve had a hypothesis that the real reason phones keep being unnecessarily thin with not-quite-adequate batteries is that a larger, heavier phone hits the ground harder and breaks. I wonder how true that could be. It matters less with laptops, but still.
- mey 8y ago
  If the device bends while in a pocket, is that any better?
- 05 8y ago
  iphone 3G had a plastic back and a metal border around the screen, I never managed to break the screen with all the falls onto the pavement. iPhones 8/X have glass(!) backs. Broken phones sell more phones, making a sturdier phone is therefore counterproductive.
- ASalazarMX 8y ago
  Thinner iPhones make even less sense when most of them will be stuck in a protective case because they're too slippery to use without one. My last Android was a Droid Turbo, and it was perfect without a case: Kevlar back, rounded frame with textured rubber around. I wish Apple would take some clues from other manufacturers.
IgorPartola 8y ago
I agree on phones. I'd love it if instead of making it 1mm thinner, they made the components in it 1mm thinner and added a bigger battery. For laptops, I think what Apple et al are trying to do is thin them down until they are tablet sized. So far, Microsoft managed to make a usable tablet/laptop hybrid in the form of the Surface family. Nobody else really has pulled it off: battery life sucks, ergonomics are terrible (those Lenovo monstrosities with the swivel screen!), OS is all wrong. My bet is that Apple is using it as an opportunity to develop next gen tech. Just like they did with touchpads that became phone touchscreens, etc.
Spartan-S63 8y ago
I don't really care about the headphone jack, but I wish they'd just make the phone thicker to accommodate the camera bump. In that extra volume, just fill it with a larger battery. With their laptops, I enjoy the form factor, but it's really Intel's fault for not delivering the low TDP, low wattage CPUs they promised years ago. The old MBP form factor feels too thick but the battery life of the new ones is disappointing. I actually don't mind the butterfly switch keyboard and like the lower travel distance. The old keyboards felt too mushy.
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intopieces 8y ago
>I don't need or want my iPhone to be any thinner Every iPhone since the iPhone 7 Plus has been thicker than the one before it. The X is the thickest phone since the 4S, which was released in 2011.

BenFrantzDale 8y ago

I’ve had a hypothesis that the real reason phones keep being unnecessarily thin with not-quite-adequate batteries is that a larger, heavier phone hits the ground harder and breaks. I wonder how true that could be. It matters less with laptops, but still.

mey 8y ago
If the device bends while in a pocket, is that any better?
05 8y ago
iphone 3G had a plastic back and a metal border around the screen, I never managed to break the screen with all the falls onto the pavement. iPhones 8/X have glass(!) backs. Broken phones sell more phones, making a sturdier phone is therefore counterproductive.
ASalazarMX 8y ago
Thinner iPhones make even less sense when most of them will be stuck in a protective case because they're too slippery to use without one. My last Android was a Droid Turbo, and it was perfect without a case: Kevlar back, rounded frame with textured rubber around. I wish Apple would take some clues from other manufacturers.

IgorPartola 8y ago

I agree on phones. I'd love it if instead of making it 1mm thinner, they made the components in it 1mm thinner and added a bigger battery. For laptops, I think what Apple et al are trying to do is thin them down until they are tablet sized. So far, Microsoft managed to make a usable tablet/laptop hybrid in the form of the Surface family. Nobody else really has pulled it off: battery life sucks, ergonomics are terrible (those Lenovo monstrosities with the swivel screen!), OS is all wrong. My bet is that Apple is using it as an opportunity to develop next gen tech. Just like they did with touchpads that became phone touchscreens, etc.

Spartan-S63 8y ago

I don't really care about the headphone jack, but I wish they'd just make the phone thicker to accommodate the camera bump. In that extra volume, just fill it with a larger battery. With their laptops, I enjoy the form factor, but it's really Intel's fault for not delivering the low TDP, low wattage CPUs they promised years ago. The old MBP form factor feels too thick but the battery life of the new ones is disappointing. I actually don't mind the butterfly switch keyboard and like the lower travel distance. The old keyboards felt too mushy.

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intopieces 8y ago

>I don't need or want my iPhone to be any thinner Every iPhone since the iPhone 7 Plus has been thicker than the one before it. The X is the thickest phone since the 4S, which was released in 2011.