Here's the thing, Apple has done more testing than you would care to know about.
Wait... Apple, a giant tech company does a massive amount of R&D?
Well, hell. I never would have thought of that.
Apple understands that the goal is to provide the vast majority of users, a battery life which will last them exactly 1 day (i.e. from the time they wake up, to the time they go to bed).
Not to nitpick, but a day is exactly 24 hours. Most people are awake 16-18 hours a day.
The fact is, they've provided that.
They haven't, actually. I know very few people for whom their iPhone lasts an entire day. Anecdotal, sure, but if I know 20 people and it only lasts a day for 18 of them, statistically it makes it unlikely that this will be very different from the general population assuming the people I know are a relatively random sample. This 18/20 is about right. And judging from these forums, I'm not alone.
It makes absolutely no sense to go beyond the 1 day battery life, because you simply charge it overnight... It would only ever make sense when there is new battery tech which will last days or weeks.
Actually in my estimation it surely does. My old flip phone lasted for days. Literally sometimes an entire week. This was very,
very nice. I genuinely appreciated not having to charge it every day, nor worry about the battery. I didn't have to think about charging it before I went to bed. If I lost the charger, I had a week to find it.
Your claim that going beyond a day is pointless is more than a bit laughable. Not everyone is always in a situation where they have access to a charger when they need it. I know I haven't been.
The thing people need to do, when they can't get the battery to last a full day, is ask themselves why that is. Do you watch videos all day? If so, don't expect a full day of battery life, because remember, Apple isn't expecting the vast majority of users to be watching porn on their phones all day.
Bit of a silly thing to say. I doubt most videos viewed on iPhones are pornographic, not that it matters in terms of battery life. Plenty of people watch videos, sometimes as part of their job. You're basically telling people that if they do things on a regular basis that are CPU intensive, that their needs aren't valid. This is, in addition to arrogant, downright stupid. They're still valid consumers (they exist, they buy and use products, ergo they're "valid consumers") and so their needs matter insofar as any company ought to be concerned.
Do you use one of the worst things ever created by man...Facebook?
On my phone? Rarely if ever. However, I'm not sure how it being "one of the worst things ever created by man" is relevant (and honestly if you believe *Facebook* is one of the worst things created by man, you need a serious priority check), but given that 500+ million people use it, and I'm going to guess 100+ million (wild guess) use it on their phone, it's a "valid" use from a consumer standpoint.
Then don't use that, because it's embarrassingly awful, and the app kills battery life I've heard.
Your argument is getting more and more flimsy, and sounding more and more as though it were written by a non-native teenage speaker. Regardless, I do not use Facebook.
If you use it normally, then you need to google, or find the person's comment which I saw earlier, showing the common mistakes people make with too many unnecessary features killing their battery. For example I feel bad for anyone with Facebook, and not knowing what background app refresh is, because they might have that on, and that's like doomsday for your battery.
Again with the infantile thing and vague references. Anyway, no I don't use facebook. I have my iPhone set on 3G permanently, I have the screen turned down to 30% most of the time, bluetooth and location services off, and I quit unused background apps. Still don't get much life out of it. Unless you want to tell me Cydia/jailbreak is a huge battery killer.
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People buy laptops because they are faster than ultra books. People buy desktops because they don't need portability. People buy paper because it doesn't require any power and is cheap. I thought my reasoning was clear.
Obviously. But your argument was that thinner was better no matter what, with the sole exception of battery life.
My point was the one you've just made. There are valid reasons for wanting performance over form other than battery life. And for some people thinner just isn't all that comfortable.
