We've had stainless steel on the iPods since 2001... it SUCKS... it scratches like crazy.
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Next-Generation iPhones Could Adopt 7000 Series Aluminum Used in Apple Watch Sport
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We've had stainless steel on the iPods since 2001... it SUCKS... it scratches like crazy.
Using a stronger and more scratch-resistant alloy in iPhones would be very welcome.
I don't like how keys and coins scratch up the Aluminium on my iPhone when it's in my pocket. (But I like using cases even less!)
That said, so far my iPhone 6 is holding up much better than the 5 did.
I don't like how keys and coins scratch up the Aluminium on my iPhone when it's in my pocket. (But I like using cases even less!)
That said, so far my iPhone 6 is holding up much better than the 5 did.
WHY, it was standard on pretty much every iPod since the introduction of iPods even on the cheap nanos.
It scratches like hell, to use that for an iPhone would be the worst idea EVER.
It would look nice, but it would be heavy. Aluminium has a much better strength-to-weight ratio.
HobeSoundDarryl
macrumors G5
Hooray! Maybe they can make the next iPhones thinner because so many of us are griping about the onerous thickness of the current iPhones... just like so many of us were griping about the iPhone 5s being too thick ahead of the iPhone 6 launch.
Thinner! Thinner! Com'on Apple. You know what we want most!
Kick the battery out if you have to. We can just buy a battery pack (sold separately of course) so that we "can get whatever amount of battery we want". The battery "as is" takes up so much space inside. Get rid of it and you can really thin the thing. And "lighter" would be "much lighter" if you ship it without a battery. Plus a more protruding camera can be overcome by the case we'll need to buy (separately) anyway. It all "just works".
And please, could you build it with a lightening 2 connector so we can better rationalize buying new cables & accessories again? Don't worry, we'll just spin it as "the future" among ourselves. Anyone who gripes about a new connector that connects to nothing we have without an adapter can just be beat down. The future you spin is THE future: thinner & lighter are most important and we'll happily still pay the full price you want AND buy the accessories (separately) too so that it can work as it has.
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Thinner! Thinner! Com'on Apple. You know what we want most!
Kick the battery out if you have to. We can just buy a battery pack (sold separately of course) so that we "can get whatever amount of battery we want". The battery "as is" takes up so much space inside. Get rid of it and you can really thin the thing. And "lighter" would be "much lighter" if you ship it without a battery. Plus a more protruding camera can be overcome by the case we'll need to buy (separately) anyway. It all "just works".
And please, could you build it with a lightening 2 connector so we can better rationalize buying new cables & accessories again? Don't worry, we'll just spin it as "the future" among ourselves. Anyone who gripes about a new connector that connects to nothing we have without an adapter can just be beat down. The future you spin is THE future: thinner & lighter are most important and we'll happily still pay the full price you want AND buy the accessories (separately) too so that it can work as it has.
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Hooray! Maybe they can make the next iPhones thinner because so many of us are griping about the onerous thickness of the current iPhones... just like so many of us were griping about the iPhone 5s being too thick ahead of the iPhone 6 launch.
Thinner! Thinner! Com'on Apple. You know what we want most!
Kick the battery out if you have to. We can just buy a battery pack (sold separately of course) so that "we can get whatever amount of battery we want"). The battery "as is" takes up so much space inside. Get rid of it and you can really thin the thing. And "lighter" would be "much lighter" if you ship it without a battery. Plus a more protruding camera can be overcome by the case we'll need to buy (separately) anyway. It all "just works".
And please, could you build it with a lightening 2 connector so we can better rationalize buying new cables & accessories again? Don't worry, we'll just spin it as "the future" among ourselves. Anyone who gripes about a new connector that connects to nothing we have without an adapter can just be beat down. The future you spin is THE future: thinner & lighter are most important and we'll happily still pay the full price you want AND buy the accessories too so that it can work as it has.
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good morning...
Hooray! Maybe they can make the next iPhones thinner because so many of us are griping about the onerous thickness of the current iPhones... just like so many of us were griping about the iPhone 5s being too thick ahead of the iPhone 6 launch.
Thinner! Thinner! Com'on Apple. You know what we want most!
Kick the battery out if you have to. We can just buy a battery pack (sold separately of course) so that "we can get whatever amount of battery we want"). The battery "as is" takes up so much space inside. Get rid of it and you can really thin the the thing. And "lighter" would be "much lighter" if you ship it without a battery. Plus a more protruding camera can be overcome by the case we'll need to buy anyway. It all "just works".
And please, could you build it with a lightening 2 connector so we can better rationalize buying new cables & accessories again? Don't worry, we'll just spin it as "the future" among ourselves. Anyone who gripes about a new connector that connects to nothing we have without an adapter can just be beat down. The future you spin is THE future: thinner & lighter are most important and we'll happily still pay the full price you want AND buy the accessories too so that it can work as it has.
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your eyeballs must be spinning in their sockets on the regular 'round these parts.
I agree! I saw someone on the train this morning with an iPhone 5, and there were so many ugly scratches and nicks in the "beautifully chamfered edge". I only kept my 5 for a year, but it looked similarly crappy by the end. Anything Apple does to make phones that are durable enough that they still look great after a year of normal use would be welcome.
My Mountain Bike is made out of 7000 series aluminum.. I don't know what that means; I just felt like saying'....
My road bike is 7005 and like you, I don't know but its held up fine.
What alloy does the iPhone use now? Do we know that it's not 7000 Series? Maybe the Apple Watch is just using the same stuff Apple has been using for their other products, and they just made the sexy video about it.
Hah. We were joking about this recently.
https://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?p=20810802#post20810802
Looks like they've been using..
https://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?p=20810802#post20810802
Looks like they've been using..
HobeSoundDarryl
macrumors G5
It's always good for a laugh. The sad part: chunks of my joke will probably become reality. Eventually, the battery has to get ejected for "thinner". Cameras can't be thinned to a sheet or paper or a pane of atoms and still work. And so on.
