• disconnectikacio@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    another crappy apple invented useless fashion, that will be spread everywhere, as everyone wants to follow the trends. See: curved display, micro SIM then nano SIM, no headphone jack, etc.

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    11 days ago

    Why? Phones have been thin enough for a long time that you have to put them in a case just to get a good grip.

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      11 days ago

      I want an iPhone with a larger battery so it doesn’t have the stupid camera bulge.

      Longer life and doesn’t rock when I text on a surface.

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        11 days ago

        doesn’t rock when I text on a surface.

        I mean, I agree with you on the battery life being desirable, but purely in terms of addressing the rocking, does putting it in a rigid case resolve that?

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          11 days ago

          It makes the phone bigger without extra battery life so what’s the point?

          I’ve actually never ran a case on my phones just a screen protector.

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      11 days ago

      Actually, they’ve been getting thicker every year since the 6, believe it or not.

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        11 days ago

        Exactly. I’m still on my 11pro for this reason, already had to replace the battery. I got the 15 as a work phone, it feels very large in comparison, I’m not a fan.

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        10 days ago

        I’d be happier if they push for lighter devices personally. Glass feels nice, but their Pro models can be obnoxiously heavy.

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      11 days ago

      I had the bending iphone. Had it replaced twice under warranty. Never again.

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        11 days ago

        I had the bending iPhone. Used it for five years, never bent. At the time, I really wished it was slightly thinner lmao

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      11 days ago

      iPhones have been getting thicker year over year since the 11. The 15 is the largest jump in thickness over that period, too. It’s actually pretty reasonable that Apple would seek to return to at least the last prior model’s form factor.

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    11 days ago

    I feel like we’re just going backwards, we stopped caring about tech getting thin enough to act like a blade like a decade ago.

    Why are we doing this again?

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    11 days ago

    I want more functionality and better battery life. And guess what, thinner doesn’t help with any of those.

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      10 days ago

      Make the phone half as thick, then double the battery and fill the rest with thermals.

      Apple: Yes, yes, this innovation constitutes a $600 price increase.

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    11 days ago

    They scored big with the M-series macbook being a little thicker and having an hdmi port, and now they want to go back?

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      Honestly… in my opinion hdmi needs to die. DisplayPort is superior in every way, especially when driving from thunderbolt/usb4. We are so close to one port for everything, even if we have to continue dongle hell for a while longer.

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        There’s no way that the home entertainment world is gonna drop HDMI.

        It may be technically-inferior, but HDMI support means that your computer can talk to home entertainment displays like televisions and home entertainment projectors, not just computer displays.

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          Most computer displays also support hdmi too though. In the last though there were usually tradeoffs in using the hdmi input. Now hdmi has caught up enough that usually there’s no difference, assuming the manufacturer is using the latest standard.

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    11 days ago

    I’m not going to buy any of those, and I don’t use a smartwatch at all, but I’d rather have a thicker laptop and phone with the extra space expended on a larger battery.

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      Yeah, I’d rather have my back panel fingerprint reader back than an even thinner phone, and then there’s the pointlessness of making the phone so thin that to have a remotely decent camera they have to add a huge bulge. Just… Make the whole damned thing that thick and use the extra space for, I dunno, more battery maybe?

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    10 days ago

    You don’t say? Next they’ll say the plans also include making it faster and attempts to improve battery life.

    Must be a slow news day.

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    10 days ago

    I remember when all of my friends would laugh at the iPod Nano, when it released as being super thin, due to all the people accidentally sitting on them or other easy ways in which they broke.

    I would prefer it if manufacturers made phones with smaller screens, so I can actually use it with one hand without some janky workaround (like right/left handed modes on Google Keyboard).