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Thinness Doesn't Really Matter.

klamse25

klamse25

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Why does Apple obsess over how thin their products are?
My iPad is already thin as can be. Who would want it thinner?
This applies to all Apple products, especially the iPhone and iPad.

Apple should focus on keeping the size the same, but increasing the capacity of the battery. Anyone else agree?
 
klamse25 said:
Why does Apple obsess over how thin their products are?
My iPad is already thin as can be. Who would want it thinner?
This applies to all Apple products, especially the iPhone and iPad.

Apple should focus on keeping the size the same, but increasing the capacity of the battery. Anyone else agree?
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It's just the trend. The thinner, the lighter and that's what makes them more portable. We are getting to a point where it will stop and you just won't be able to make them any thinner because it will likely effect its durability. This is where the tables will likely turn and more effort will be put into battery and storage capacity.
 
klamse25 said:
Why does Apple obsess over how thin their products are?
My iPad is already thin as can be. Who would want it thinner?
This applies to all Apple products, especially the iPhone and iPad.

Apple should focus on keeping the size the same, but increasing the capacity of the battery. Anyone else agree?
Click to expand...

Well, others, like me, like thinner products. Apple's 'i' chain started with the iPod, which was a portable music player. I guess Apple wants to make their iDevices more compact and portable. Personally, when I saw the iPod touch 4G for the first time and noticed that it was thinner than the super thin iPod touch 3G, I figuratively drooled. Apple, in my honest opinion, can obsess on whatever the hell they want to obsess about since Apple is, in my opinion, the best technological company out there (sorry, Microsoft).
 
You know they made "The New iPad" a bit thicker to fit a bigger battery and the 4g antenna..... Even if it was fractional...
 
kaielement said:
You know they made "The New iPad" a bit thicker to fit a bigger battery and the 4g antenna..... Even if it was fractional...
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I know that, sorry for quoting your post if it wasn't meant as a reply to me. And I don't care about negligble changes in thickness, I just don't want to see products get TOO much thicker.
 
Yeah, why bother making products thinner. The original iPod was fine!

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When Apple first announced the MacBook Air, I thought exactly the same thing.

Why in the world would they spend so much engineering effort on making this thing thinner, when that's probably the least important metric??

Until... I saw it in person. I had to buy one on the spot!!
 
For those people posting pictures of ancient hardware:
That was from years ago.

The iPhone and ipad are already super thin.
If they keep making them thinner and thinner, they would easily snap in half.
 
klamse25 said:
For those people posting pictures of ancient hardware:
That was from years ago.

The iPhone and ipad are already super thin.
If they keep making them thinner and thinner, they would easily snap in half.
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The point is that if thinness was never a concern, things would still be as thick as they used to be. Your iPad would be an inch thick and weigh 5 pounds.
 
klamse25 said:
Why does Apple obsess over how thin their products are?
My iPad is already thin as can be. Who would want it thinner?
This applies to all Apple products, especially the iPhone and iPad.

Apple should focus on keeping the size the same, but increasing the capacity of the battery. Anyone else agree?
Click to expand...
For what it's worth, I agree with you. I also think that we're at the point where things are small and light enough. I'd rather see a focus on other features.

However, I'm sure that there are some people out there who wish that the products could be even smaller and lighter than they currently are. To varying degrees, Apple is trying to meet everyone's desires. We just have to accept those advancements even if they're not relevant to our interest.
 
Thinness does matter, unfortunately. Neither me nor my back have ever once complained about my devices getting thinner, lighter or more mobile (less moving parts).

And as far a battery life is concerned, I'm much more comfortable with the idea that mobile devices should be much more power efficient over simply having higher capacity.
 
I believe the goal for ipad and iphone is to be as thin as the current ipod touch. Anything thinner than that is going to be a problem to use.
 
We all know that Apple products have a certain feel to them; a sturdy and high quality feel. The thinness of future products only becomes a problem when you can't achieve that very feeling. Apple would never release a product that would break in half due to its thinness. So keep going thinner, Apple.

I'd rather have a thinness war than a RAM/MPX/memory specs war.
 
Apple is positively obsessed with making it's laptops & iDevices thin.

Why build a cool running ultra fast laptop, when you can make it super thin, hot running, and beautiful to stare at?

After all who really uses one as a computer anyway...

Why not take a well functioning iPhone like the 4S and compress it into an even thinner waif like size just to prove a point.

Interestingly, the heavy glass iPhones never are criticized for their weight. But then again it's all about sucking up to Apple these days ...


/sarcasm
 
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