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Apple's Hardware Engineering Group Faces Restructuring as iPhone Product Design VP Departs
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No thanks. A massive seven day battery, at roughly 6-7 times the volume of the current battery, would make the phone much larger, heavier, and unwieldy. Most Apple customers would pass on that.
And I'm doing fine with my iPhone 15 PM with respect to performance. Especially shooting videos in Apple ProRes 4K 30/60P in log color encoding.
What's holding you back with the current number of cores? Are you mining bitcoin? Or trying to decode encrypted secret communications from foreign governments?
Most people who have an iPhone already have a desktop Mac, a laptop, and/or a tablet. I can't imagine doing what I do on my Mac and large displays, on my iPhone. What an awful experience that would be.
Apple markets to the masses, not to niches, manufacturing and selling 600,000 iPhones per day.
Creating a new iPhone as you describe, would certainly be easy for Apple. But with increased costs and thus great market pricing, and very low sales volumes, wouldn't make much sense from a business case point of view.
All good, and I expected you weren't able to answer, the question; and that’s fine. It’s too complex for some people to grasp the details and say something of substance. Moving on….
I was able to answer and did.
Actually, that’s a personal attack.
And a second one. I’d be careful about that kind of thing.
Guess you don't recall the phones of the early 90's. The old Nokia communicator phones were large and even the regular mobiles of that time. I've never had an issue carrying large phones around. Carry a man bag if it's too big.
More power is always good. I everything can be done quicker since Apple always like to show stats.
I didn't say a desktop experience on the phone screen, I said a DOCKED experience. You would connect you phone to an external display and it would be like a Mac mini on the go.
I do - they were huge, as were Motorola's. But that's not something I'd wan't to carry around. I'd much rather live in the 2020s where phones can fit in a shirt or jeans pocket. I suspect most of Apple's customers would feel similarly.
The good news is you can probably find an iPhone competitor that can sell you a giant cellphone. Start your search with Sanyo.
You should go for and find a cellphone that will let you do that. Because, for sure, Apple never will. Best to move on and away from Apple and find cellphone happiness!
For me, while traveling... rather than searching around for an unused external display, and a keyboard somewhere, if I'm on the road I'll just use my MacBook Air that has a built-n display, AND a keyboard. And do the work I need to do. Easy.
Good luck on your quest! And please... never give up!
All the old Nokia phones fit into my jeans and jacket pockets just fine. Clothes haven’t suddenly shrunk. Heck even if they made the phone the same thickness as the og 2007 iPhone with the 6.7 screen there plenty of space to double the battery and at least get 2 days out of it.
I haven’t purchased the last two models because they’ve be trash iterative updates.
Finding an external display is easy these days with plenty of pop up work spaces from many companies in cities all over. As for the mouse the screen could double as a track pad and since this is a tech forum you can buy laser keyboards the size of a small battery pack that project the keys onto any surface.
Please continue wasting money on mediocre products that will catch up with the company soon.
"Please continue wasting money on mediocre products that will catch up with the company soon."
I hear you bro... Apple will be going out of business any day now!
Happened before and it can happen again. They’re getting complacent.
Hah! That's been the reflexive assessment and reply here going on a couple decades.
Any day now!
Clutch your pearls and sell your Apple stock. Stat!
The issue is that battery technology hasn’t really advanced much in the last 100 years. So if people want longer lasting battery they need a bigger one. That’s the only way. Berating someone because they don’t mind a larger phone as a trade off for more battery power is a poor tactic. Your preferences aren’t everyone’s preferences.
And again, belittling people who disagree with you is a poor way to go about it.
People have NOT been “reflexive” about that opinion and it has NOT been 20 years. The impression that Apple has become stagnant is based on assessment of their products over the last eight to ten years. It’s not a fringe opinion.
For example: this from CNN only yesterday:
It’s a largely mainstream opinion that Apple suffers from a lack of innovation since Jobs and Ive left.
No berating. I'm simply saying what's important to me.
If someone wants to carry aa brick of a phone in order to have a week-long battery, that's fine with me - find one and be happy. Apple won't be making such a device until some battery company makes a breakthrough in the technology.
"The issue is that battery technology hasn’t really advanced much in the last 100 years. "
No. Battery tech has evolved quite a bit over the last hundred years. From Zinc-Carbon, to Alkaline, to Lithium Ion, and more (Lithium Sulfur is coming on strong and will soon be commercially available to the masses). Each substantially increasing energy density.
One just needs to read the daily posts going back in time to see that's not true.
Don't worry about it.
They are already becoming irrelevant. The Vision Pro is a joke product and they are burning money on trash projects. Sales are down across the board as well.
Won’t be declaring bankruptcy but sales will be down maybe half or three quarters of what it is now. Give it 10 years or so if they continue down the current path.
They’re doing the exact same things point for point as last time they got in trouble.
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