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Improvement for whom? It's obviously not designed to be taken apart. They are packing a ton of stuff in a very small space, which is why the layers of screws an

by dmix 3y ago

Improvement for whom? It's obviously not designed to be taken apart. They are packing a ton of stuff in a very small space, which is why the layers of screws and seals are also packed in tight. And it's not designed to take a beating because it's really just something you use in your house, not an rugged outdoor phone case type thing. I'm sure if the lenses get simpler and the chips get smaller they'll be able to simplify construction, but they were probably under immense pressure to keep it as thin as possible.

LarsDu88 3y ago
Its pretty obvious from all the ribbon cables, there's quite a bit of orgitecture in addition to architecture going on here. I imagine each cable represents a different team at Apple working on a different chunk of the device. The whole is greater than the sum its parts for sure, but it definitely could've been reduced to fewer PCBs. I'm sure Steve Jobs would've thrown V1 into a fish tank and yelled at a few managers until the thing was 200 grams lighter.