And that is perfectly valid.
I'm a bit different in that I consider what the phone does ahead of what it looks like, but that's just silly old me.
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iPhone 17 Pro Can’t believe Apple released an iPhone Pro that feels this cheap.
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I'm a bit different in that I consider what the phone does ahead of what it looks like, but that's just silly old me.
Yeah feels pretty cheap, not premium for that price. I was dreaming about buying the blue one maybe, but no no, too expensive for my pocket, barely take a photo and a scratch magnet.
Went for the iphone 17 base and i'm satisfied except for the liquid arse on dark mode, icond look like toys for children.
Went for the iphone 17 base and i'm satisfied except for the liquid arse on dark mode, icond look like toys for children.
As I packed up my family’s trade in iPhones (an X, 11 Pro, and a 13 Pro) it really dawned on me how much more premium they look and feel. Don’t get me wrong my 17 Pro will remain in a case until the day I sell it, but compared to past phones it’s pretty ugly.
A full glass back would have helped, my mum says the glass rectangle on the 17 Pro looks like a sticker
A full glass back would have helped, my mum says the glass rectangle on the 17 Pro looks like a sticker
try putting a plane in your pocket and see how it handles scratches 🤡😅All of you bemoaning "cheap" aluminum don't realize it's been the stuff of aircraft for decades
The point is it didn’t feel cheap then on the 6/7 so why is it now? It’s not the same as going back to a home button, that’s going backwards in tech and it affects the user experience. Aluminum body does not.
So you discount Apple's claim (backed by the cooling system) that it was for cooling the phone?
I'll ask you as well. What cooling design would you propose to Apple such that they could still use titanium?
Wonder is the new cooling system is kind of pointless when using a case....
No. Because it brings the heat into all areas of the phone instead of having heat in one specific area.
The case doesn’t matter at all.
It’s all relative. If I pull my 6s out of the drawer, I will find it to be cheap feeling now….. because….. of experiencing a pro phone with stainless steel and titanium within the last 3 years. I’m not really sure how you can just avoid the fact that we’ve been given more premium options since an iPhone 6, so now relatively those older phones feel cheap.
Airplanes don’t (aren’t supposed to) fall out of the sky into the ground. And if they did… they’d be mangled up like the corner of a dropped iPhone 17 Pro. What’s your point?All of you bemoaning "cheap" aluminum don't realize it's been the stuff of aircraft for decades
How does one adjust for the fact that titanium was not used because it is less conductive of heat? Which is more important to you, a super duper snazzy looking phone or one that dissipates heat sufficiently for it to run properly?
I never have examined the chassis of any phone I owned, I assume most people fall into that camp.
I wish the Pro had stuck with the stainless steel or titanium band myself. Isn’t the internal frame of the 15 Pros and 16 Pros still aluminum to dissipate heat anyway?
This year it’s not aluminum, apparently. Even though all of Apple’s laptops and iPads are aluminum as is the Vision Pro and non one says those products are “cheap” looking/feeling.
Like I mentioned earlier, I define “premium” as a combination of high end materials and strong performance. Both matter. That’s why, to me, the 17 Pro Max doesn’t feel as premium as the 15 Pro Max. It uses cheaper materials, and the A19 Pro chip hasn’t improved my productivity or made anything noticeably faster compared to the 15.
If I’m understanding you correctly, you don’t care how a phone feels in the hand because you assume most people will slap an ugly, bulky case on it anyway? That’s wild to me.
I have never used a case on any of my phones but I never even brought up durability. I don’t associate premium with being durable. Glass isn’t exactly tough, but the 15 looks, feels and performs very well, and that’s what makes it feel more premium in my eyes.
You’re okay with a $2 trillion company cutting corners on build quality because they assume we’ll all be using cases? That logic just doesn’t sit right.
The idea that a phone might run “too hot” so it needs a “vapor chamber” AND crappy anodized aluminum from 2012 is fascinating to me lol.
for what it’s worth, I had my air running Google Maps, playing music on 4 hour road trip while snapping photos in between FaceTime calls and it got no where near hot. It’s made of titanium, and “ceramic shield” glass with no vapor chamber cooling it if I’m not mistaken.
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Have you ever had a stainless steel or titanium Mac or iPad?
You’re not carrying a laptop and rubbing it against your pockets for 10 hours a day, nor are you dropping said laptop from waist length a few times throughout the year, maybe more. Nor did they give you a titanium laptop then take it back the next iteration.
My phone gets a lot more wear and tear than any of my laptops combined.
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The two are directly related. It's the very reason why you no longer have titanium.