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Here's How Much the Inside of an iPhone Has Changed in Ten Years
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Even with my sometimes critical comments of Apple, what they have engineered in the iPhone over the past decade is nothing short of amazing.
What Apple were willing to do in a smartphone in terms of making the device fragile and difficult to repair started with the 4. The 3g/s were the easiest to repair and the most durable. I bet that plastic back would work with Qi charging and if you really needed to replace a cracked back you could do it yourself with a $40 part and a 000 Phillips.
Man, one could only imagine how much the Mac mini must have changed in the past 10 years...
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....Have you ever worked on an iPhone? They've gotten even simpler to work on over the years. I'd NEVER consider working on a 3GS or older (****ing clips), but I've worked on the 4s, the 5, 5s, 6s so far. No issues.
Is there someone that you actually know that still using an iPhone from 2007? (Rhetorical)
Point is, technology has advanced where it allows us to not rely on everything that we always needed in the past and the conveniences of What we have today. But everyone appreciates different things and technology is an ever changing field.
Oh, and Samsung (CPU), TSMC (silicon fabrication), Qualcomm/Broadcom/ARM/ST (chip design), Foxconn (assembly), and Sharp/LG/Samsung (LCD and OLED) had nothing to do with it, along with the dozens of other players, CAD tools, etc. No, Apple designed and created everything! Steve Jobs did it all!
Oh, it's ******** semantics hour already? Where does the time go?
That's not the point that poster was making, and you know it.
I'm just amazed that the current iPhones compared to the original have much bigger screens, faster processors & GPU's, faster modems, additional hardware functionality and thinner bodies, yet they have a much longer battery life even though the batteries are just slightly bigger at 1,400 mAh for the original vs 1,821 mAh for the iPhone 8! 
And the point I'm making is people need to stop thinking that Apple invented, designed, developed, and fabricated the LCD display, CPU, camera, touch screen, GPS, etc. Brilliant engineers all over the world did that. That is *real* engineering. Steve Jobs yelling at a developer or bullying suppliers into exclusive, cheap cost deals, hoarding DRAM and locking out other buyers, and hiring slave labor in China is more of what Apple is about. It's capitalism. It's business.
This romanticization of Apple as the do-gooder, the benevolent creator of your coveted devices is getting out of hand.
The article is about comparing a current iPhone to an original iPhone from 2007.... Which is why I quoted it, directly talking about an iPhone from 2007.
My point is that I think it's funny that in order to use standard wired headphones on the original iPhone, as the article referred to, many people had to use an adapter that fit the recessed socket, and on many (not all) current iPhones on sale now they would have to use a lightning-to-3.5mm adapter. In-between of course were a long run of iPhones released where it was easy to use standard headphones.
If you find Airpods more convenient, good for you. But they aren't really anything to do with what I was saying, at all. *shrugs*
You don't think it takes any engineering to put it all together in a way that works?
So start a ****ing thread instead of projecting your topic onto another post that had nothing to do with it.
BTW, while there are plenty of off the shelf components in iPhones, Apple DOES invent quite a few of their own tech and then WORKS WITH THEIR MANUFACTURERS down to the fabrication level (in several cases actually inventing new processes and then EQUIPPING their manufacturers with that process).
Your pushback on that is astounding given the W1 & W2, the timer coalescing chip they made for the iMac 5k (truly an apple invention to solve a problem the standards didn't have an answer for) and new iPads, their completely in house designed GPU, the custom designed Image Signal Processor they've integrated into their A-Series chips, their pioneering of an HTTP streaming protocol that they designed and pushed for inclusion at the standards bodies, etc.
It seems in your effort to get more people to realize that Apple doesn't invent it all, you've completely discounted that in very specific areas they've done exactly that. You went to the far deep end when the reality is a mix of both off the shelf components AND completely in-house designs/processes.
It makes you appreciate the amazing effort they went through to design and cram all that into the original iPhone.
Since this site and it’s members are obviously annoying the hell out of you, why are you here? Easy trolling or easy cash?
And the article is also comparing current technology from the latest generation iPhone, which is why I quoted you regarding reference your 3.5 mm Jack comment. My post is just as relevant as yours is, becuase you mentioned one specific feature from an iPhone Generation as did I.
Aside from conflating, you're not interpreting my Post accurately, It's Not just what I find convenient with the AirPods or even Bluetooth for that matter, which wasn't my point. I previously indicated, technology (As a whole) has advanced where we don't need to rely on everything that we used to with the use of wires. Nor am I indicating everybody should have the same preferences either.
For reference again: This is my entire point.
I'm just amazed that the current iPhones compared to the original have much bigger screens, faster processors & GPU's, faster modems, additional hardware functionality and thinner bodies, yet they have a much longer battery life even though the batteries are just slightly bigger at 1,400 mAh for the original vs 1,821 mAh for the iPhone 8!
They just need a battery that will last one day as most people have the opportunity to charge every night. It’s not really a big selling point I guess although I really miss a phone that could hold power for a whole week.
Not sure what options we have on that score. Nobody's any closer to developing a cold fusion reactor to compensate and they've been chasing that for 50 years.
Apple did redesign it once in 2010, that is 7 years ago. For the past 7 years it has looked exactly the same on the outside except for port differences on the back (and the ODD slot on non-server 2010 models), and exactly the same on the inside except when the 2014 dropped the upgradable RAM/access panel and went to PCIe SSD in place of one 2.5" bay.
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True, really makes you appreciate how much effort Apple's engineers put into making the inside of their products look clean, as well as maximizing the usable space in a thin device like the iPhone.
