iPhone 13 Pro Reports of ever thickening iPhones are overblown

[va1984]

turns out the iPhone’s thickness has barely budged since 2012, yet some make a big deal of it every year…

 

[Shirasaki]

Just like weight, someone always think the phone should weight like a piece of paper, not knowing that holding a piece of paper with arms lifting up will still fatigue both of your arms after a while, and it wont be too much longer than holding a phone.

Also too thin device means it loses structural integrity. A thin device is inherently easier to be bent and more prone to flexing. Yet some dudes refuse to accept that, especially inside Apple design team.

 

[va1984]

I agree. The only thing that may be different about the weight situation is that the use of steel instead of aluminium in the Pro line is not strictly speaking a necessity, but a stylistic / marketing choice. So you could argue that Apple is deliberately not making its Pro phones as light as they could be.

 

[Mike Reed]

I was happy to see they aren’t sticking to the dogmatic view that thinner and lighter are universally better regardless of how thin or light the product originally was. At some point things start to feel cheap and fragile - even if that isn’t the case.