Apple reportedly has plans for a thinner iPhone, MacBook Pro and Apple Watch (www.engadget.com)
from corbin@infosec.pub to technology@lemmy.world on 17 Jun 2024 04:43
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cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de on 17 Jun 2024 04:49 next collapse

Why? Phones have been thin enough for a long time that you have to put them in a case just to get a good grip.

SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world on 17 Jun 2024 05:23 next collapse

I want an iPhone with a larger battery so it doesn’t have the stupid camera bulge.

Longer life and doesn’t rock when I text on a surface.

jenny_ball@lemmy.world on 17 Jun 2024 05:53 next collapse

seriously

SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world on 17 Jun 2024 05:55 collapse

Oh I’m serious.

sugartits@lemmy.world on 17 Jun 2024 07:47 collapse

When Satan’s Maggoty Cum Fart says they are serious, then you better believe that Satan’s Maggoty Cum Fart is being serious and take it seriously!

tfowinder@lemmy.ml on 17 Jun 2024 06:55 next collapse

And I can repair when it breaks.

tal@lemmy.today on 17 Jun 2024 17:35 collapse

doesn’t rock when I text on a surface.

I mean, I agree with you on the battery life being desirable, but purely in terms of addressing the rocking, does putting it in a rigid case resolve that?

SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world on 17 Jun 2024 18:13 collapse

It makes the phone bigger without extra battery life so what’s the point?

I’ve actually never ran a case on my phones just a screen protector.

bdonvr@thelemmy.club on 17 Jun 2024 08:02 next collapse

Actually, they’ve been getting thicker every year since the 6, believe it or not.

slaacaa@lemmy.world on 17 Jun 2024 10:37 next collapse

Exactly. I’m still on my 11pro for this reason, already had to replace the battery. I got the 15 as a work phone, it feels very large in comparison, I’m not a fan.

DolphinMath@slrpnk.net on 18 Jun 2024 18:42 collapse

I’d be happier if they push for lighter devices personally. Glass feels nice, but their Pro models can be obnoxiously heavy.

Evotech@lemmy.world on 17 Jun 2024 16:07 collapse

Because we need to keep innovating?

LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 17 Jun 2024 04:51 next collapse

Enough with the goddamn thinness soon that shit is gonna snap if you breathe on it

clubb@lemmy.world on 17 Jun 2024 05:08 next collapse

It already has, years ago

user224@lemmy.sdf.org on 17 Jun 2024 05:59 collapse

iPhone 6: First foldable smartphone

tal@lemmy.today on 17 Jun 2024 04:54 next collapse

I’m not going to buy any of those, and I don’t use a smartwatch at all, but I’d rather have a thicker laptop and phone with the extra space expended on a larger battery.

CaptainBasculin@lemmy.ml on 17 Jun 2024 05:01 next collapse

any phone thinner than an iPod Touch 4 is unnecessarily thin imo

TheRealKuni@lemmy.world on 17 Jun 2024 15:46 collapse

The 13” iPad Pro M4 is thinner than the iPod Nano, making it the thinnest device Apple has ever made (except for the camera bump, but we don’t talk about that). It’s wild how thin it is, but it’s significantly lighter than its predecessor and is much nicer to hold.

But it can be that thin because it’s large enough that the battery can be spread out. I wouldn’t want a phone that thin.

scytale@lemm.ee on 17 Jun 2024 05:29 next collapse

They scored big with the M-series macbook being a little thicker and having an hdmi port, and now they want to go back?

astrsk@kbin.run on 17 Jun 2024 07:42 collapse

Honestly… in my opinion hdmi needs to die. DisplayPort is superior in every way, especially when driving from thunderbolt/usb4. We are so close to one port for everything, even if we have to continue dongle hell for a while longer.

tal@lemmy.today on 17 Jun 2024 11:24 collapse

There’s no way that the home entertainment world is gonna drop HDMI.

It may be technically-inferior, but HDMI support means that your computer can talk to home entertainment displays like televisions and home entertainment projectors, not just computer displays.

bamboo@lemm.ee on 17 Jun 2024 19:19 collapse

Most computer displays also support hdmi too though. In the last though there were usually tradeoffs in using the hdmi input. Now hdmi has caught up enough that usually there’s no difference, assuming the manufacturer is using the latest standard.

tonytins@pawb.social on 17 Jun 2024 06:51 next collapse

This thin obsession really needs to stop.

Bezier@suppo.fi on 17 Jun 2024 07:25 next collapse

I had the bending iphone. Had it replaced twice under warranty. Never again.

dditty@lemm.ee on 17 Jun 2024 20:03 collapse

I had the bending iPhone. Used it for five years, never bent. At the time, I really wished it was slightly thinner lmao

mrvictory1@lemmy.world on 20 Jun 2024 04:37 collapse

Had the bending iPhone. It got stuck on iOS 12. Safari didn’t work. Never again.

Telodzrum@lemmy.world on 17 Jun 2024 13:33 collapse

iPhones have been getting thicker year over year since the 11. The 15 is the largest jump in thickness over that period, too. It’s actually pretty reasonable that Apple would seek to return to at least the last prior model’s form factor.

helenslunch@feddit.nl on 17 Jun 2024 19:21 collapse

Good. They should continue getting thicker.

Moneo@lemmy.world on 17 Jun 2024 19:27 collapse

we like it thic

lurch@sh.itjust.works on 17 Jun 2024 07:39 next collapse

they will never be as thin as Wiko Highway Pure

small44@lemmy.world on 17 Jun 2024 09:41 next collapse

So gimmicky

CoffeeJunkie@lemmy.cafe on 17 Jun 2024 11:45 next collapse

A

boatsnhos931@lemmy.world on 17 Jun 2024 11:49 next collapse

I’m looking for tha THICCness

darkevilmac@lemmy.zip on 17 Jun 2024 14:42 next collapse

I feel like we’re just going backwards, we stopped caring about tech getting thin enough to act like a blade like a decade ago.

Why are we doing this again?

pumpkinseedoil@sh.itjust.works on 17 Jun 2024 18:49 collapse

Breaks easier, better for the company

aphlamingphoenix@lemm.ee on 17 Jun 2024 18:26 next collapse

I don’t want thinner. I want more functionality. Don’t expect me to pay 2 grand for a laptop with no external USB or HDMI ports, for which privileges I can pay an additional $100 or so. I’m frustrated enough by the lack of Ethernet jacks on my Lenovo. The last time I had a Mac (work shipped me one), I was even more frustrated by how bad the built in trackpad and keyboard were and the fact that using an external device to replace them came at a premium price.

GamingChairModel@lemmy.world on 18 Jun 2024 11:12 collapse

Don’t expect me to pay 2 grand for a laptop with no external USB or HDMI ports

HDMI is a trash standard and we should move everyone to Displayport at a minimum, or Thunderbolt. But also, all the MacBook Pros have HDMI.

I was even more frustrated by how bad the built in trackpad

Weird. I think Apple’s trackpad is head and shoulders better than anyone else’s.

billwashere@lemmy.world on 17 Jun 2024 18:56 next collapse

I want more functionality and better battery life. And guess what, thinner doesn’t help with any of those.

dukk@programming.dev on 18 Jun 2024 16:37 collapse

Make the phone half as thick, then double the battery and fill the rest with thermals.

Apple: Yes, yes, this innovation constitutes a $600 price increase.

Mazoku@lemmy.ml on 17 Jun 2024 21:44 next collapse

Wh🥱 cares

FangedWyvern42@lemmy.world on 18 Jun 2024 11:50 next collapse

Can this trend of thin tech just end already? It’s pointless.

laurelraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 19 Jun 2024 03:31 collapse

Yeah, I’d rather have my back panel fingerprint reader back than an even thinner phone, and then there’s the pointlessness of making the phone so thin that to have a remotely decent camera they have to add a huge bulge. Just… Make the whole damned thing that thick and use the extra space for, I dunno, more battery maybe?

JadenSmith@sh.itjust.works on 18 Jun 2024 14:32 next collapse

I remember when all of my friends would laugh at the iPod Nano, when it released as being super thin, due to all the people accidentally sitting on them or other easy ways in which they broke.

I would prefer it if manufacturers made phones with smaller screens, so I can actually use it with one hand without some janky workaround (like right/left handed modes on Google Keyboard).

WhatsHerBucket@lemmy.world on 18 Jun 2024 17:06 next collapse

You don’t say? Next they’ll say the plans also include making it faster and attempts to improve battery life.

Must be a slow news day.

MonkderDritte@feddit.de on 19 Jun 2024 08:53 next collapse

So next time you drop it it’s not only the display breaking?

MonkderDritte@feddit.de on 19 Jun 2024 08:55 next collapse

This means less battery life (or security margins) and or less powerful cpu.

disconnectikacio@lemmy.world on 19 Jun 2024 10:43 collapse

another crappy apple invented useless fashion, that will be spread everywhere, as everyone wants to follow the trends. See: curved display, micro SIM then nano SIM, no headphone jack, etc.