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Why are Apple so obsessed with thinner phones?
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If they make the phone bigger in in length and width but make it thinner it will probably be no heavier than before, provided its density is the same.
I was using ARE in reference to Apple as a group of people and so it is grammatically correct. I'm English after all I do know my own language lol
I'm sure everyone knew what I meant
Thinner is fine, until it reaches the point where it compromises functionality. There is a sweet spot that blends "thin enough" with "room for components" like the battery.
Again, there's something wrong with thin? Seriously. If the next iPhone were half as thin as the current one no one would be complaining. As long as it's durable and the battery life is long make it as thin as humanly possible.
I vehemently disagree with this statement. Let Apple make two identical phones where one is 2mm thicker but has a battery life twice as long. Everything else is identical, the bigger one with bigger battery life would outsell the other with ease.
The number one complaint with just about every smartphone user from every single manufacturer is battery life. Everyone wants a phone that stays on. I've never once heard anyone with a smartphone say they love their phone but wish it was a mm thinner.
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Yes, but Apple is greedy and evil so it's a bad thing if they tie their watch to their phones.
Due to their physical home button and large bezels, I mean iconic design, the only way Apple can compete dimensions-wise is when it comes to thickness and weight.
Lol. You don't need to be a pro designer to dislike something. Hardly anyone likes a protruding camera.
If you think the bulge is a design decision you are sadly mistaken. The bulge is an eye sore of a compromise.
No lets not. You can buy a case if you need more.I'm in the Make It Thicker and Add More Battery Club.
Zero reason they can't make it a bit thicker and add more battery. You know the obsession with thinness has gone too far when the camera sticks out.
This would be totally awesome. I think one of the coolest innovations would be to have the facetime camera embedded behind the center of the screen so it would appear that you are looking AT each other, rather than BELOW each other.
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After all, what do we know. We're just the ones with the money that Apple wants. No reason to listen to us.
Thinner is OK with me, or leave it the way it is now. Battery life and WEIGHT are more important aspects that I am concerned about. I'd like to put it in my shirt pocket and not have it hang down like one rectangular tit.
WHOA! Thats it! Thats the tag line. Quick somebody make a meme.
**STOP PHONE ANOREXIA!**
ps- I'm not being sarcastic. That really is the problem for Apple.
Conversely, what do they know, right? It isn't as if they're a multi-billion dollar company with a nearly 40 year history of creating iconic products that people buy in the hundreds of millions. I mean, I seriously doubt much thought went into the design at all, right? Apple really doesn't have anything to lose. It's just their flagship product. Why would they put a team of some of the best design minds in the world on it? Why would they bother focus grouping the phone in various sizes and configurations before arriving at the final product? I'm convinced they just dashed this thing off in Illustrator and that was more or less it. What a shame that they didn't consult with us, a collection of random brand loyal consumers who may or may not have a design background? Surely WE know better, right? Right?
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Is it really "the problem" for Apple? How was the battery life on those old Nokia phones? Were they running a touch screen? A fingerprint scanner? A camera? An LTE connection? A Wi-Fi connection? A Blue-Tooth connection? An accelerometer? A graphics processor? A massive 1.4ghz CPU?
Battery life on these devices has hovered around the same or better performance year over year for the last decade or so while the devices get thinner and thinner and are made to do more and more. This doesn't strike me as a "problem" for Apple. This strikes me as an achievement.
And the thinness is at the expense of the other dimensions in this case? You know that to be a fact? Because I hate to break it to you, but you don't.
Evidently the primary complaint here is the protruding camera. Something many other devices have, including Apple's own iPod Touch. So, what you're doing is engaging in speculation. Where you see a design flaw or a horrible compromise Apple may see a design that they're happy with, that they're confident the vast majority of consumers will have no problem with and that is in line with the rest of their existing design philosophy.
That is true. How dare they tie people into an ecosystem that makes them money. They should just use info to make billions. DAMN YOU!!Yes, but Apple is greedy and evil so it's a bad thing if they tie their watch to their phones.
LOL I am a designer and photographer and have been one for 25 years. Your comment about "hardly anyone liking a protruding camera" is pure anecdote. Furthermore, practically every camera ever made has a "protruding" lens, so the idea that a camera lens would be flush with the body that houses it is relatively new to photography to begin with.