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The irony of course is that after the Apple engineering team spends months trimming off that extra millimeter of thickness, most of their users still go out and
by hirsin 11y ago
The irony of course is that after the Apple engineering team spends months trimming off that extra millimeter of thickness, most of their users still go out and get an otterbox that triples the thickness.
Of course, even if they designed an iPhone only twice as thick with triple the battery life and no need for a case, it would still be panned.
- baddox 11y agoThat's not really irony, is it? A thinner phone in an Otterbox is still thinner than a thicker phone in an Otterbox. Also, there are plenty of people (myself included) who do not use cases, and instead prevent their phones from being damaged by not dropping them. I suspect that "most users" do not use a case anywhere near the thickness of an Otterbox.
- jakobegger 11y agoAlso, the lower weight makes the phone more resilient to drops. Anecdotal evidence: I've never seen a cracked iPhone 5, but cracked iPhone 4's were common. Less volume means less mass, which means less kinetic energy that must be absorbed by the frame when dropped on the floor. Thin and light phones don't need a protective case like thick and heavy phones do.
- Spooky23 11y agoiPhone 6 models in my workplace (sample size 2000/12000) are about 4x more likely to break than 5/5s models.
- jakobegger 11y agoInteresting. I remember people complaining that the iPhone 6 was slippery, and of course it is heavier than the 5/5s. Do you also have numbers for 4/4s and 6 vs. 6 plus?
- Spooky23 11y agoWe don't have a lot of 6+. We may deploy more later as iPad Minis age out. FWIW, I dropped mine from a belt clip to the pavement and it shattered -- my first dead iPhone ever, and I've dropped my phones dozens of times from the 3gs up. 5/5s was better than 4/4s, but not dramatically so.
- hellbanner 11y agoThe irony is that the iPhones are designed to be broken from falls so that consumers are motivated to buy new cases. Anecdotal (as an iOS dev), yes, but how hard would it be to add back a fraction of a mm in casing above the screen to protect from falls?