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#242"Impossibly thin" is right in line with Patrick McGee's "Apple in China" who argues that the main reason for Apple's designs is to keep imitators at bay by introducing manufacturing challenges that only they can meet. Indeed impossible at the time of release. One generation after the other. He estimates this gains them about 6 months of headway. Tough world. (Yes, to be fair, there is more to this new phone than just…
Is anyone buying an iPhone because it's slightly thinner than other phones? I've never heard anyone say the width of the phone was their reason for picking an iPhone, or any phone for that matter.
My sample size is small but the usual reason I hear from non-technical individuals is that they want the best camera possible.
Re: iPhone Air
#243It's late but I spent way too long looking at the top image wondering what the weird phone angles were on the left and right until I realised it said AIR
Same here, I got excited thinking it was a folding phone on the left
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#244Who actually wants a thinner iPhone?
I'd like to hold it, it seems like it might be more one-hand grippable in this form factor.
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#245Can someone that is actually interested in this explain the appeal? Thin on its own I get but thin with a giant bump 100% defeats the whole point for me. Seems clear at this point there is little hope of them engineering their way into thin cameras.
It still takes up less room in your pocket.
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#246It has A19 Pro. A19 Pro has matmul acceleration in its GPU, the equivalent of Nvidia's Tensor cores. This would make future Macs extremely viable for local LLMs. Currently, Macs have high memory bandwidth and high VRAM capacity but low prompt processing speeds. Give it a large context and it'll take forever before the first token is generated. If the M5 generation gets this GPU upgrade, which I don't see why not, the…
IMO it's underwhelming considering folding phones have been out for many years now and we still don't have a folding iPhone. What are the PMs doing at Apple.
Do any of the folding phones actually work well? I still haven't seen one in the wild (admittedly, I'm not living in a tech Mecca these days)
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#247AAPL is down 1.3% on the news, while GOOGL is up 2%. Their phone offerings have diverged so dramatically with this last refresh cycle.
Im a long time Apple person and in the last year I moved to Android just for the folding phone. It's just too good to pass honestly
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#248That is the dumbest side profile I have ever seen. The camera bump and camera together are thicker than the rest of this thing. By its design it now demands a massive case or just won't ever sit even reasonably flat on a table. Ridiculous.
"Just" put an magsafe battery on the back. 1. Create a problem. 2. Sell the solution. 3. Profit.
But hey, at least the battery is (partially) replaceable that way.
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#249It's more the other two dimensions that I want shrunk. Did anyone think their phone was too thick to fit in their pocket?
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#250Can someone that is actually interested in this explain the appeal? Thin on its own I get but thin with a giant bump 100% defeats the whole point for me. Seems clear at this point there is little hope of them engineering their way into thin cameras.
Because China.
Ben Thompson (Stratechery) has been documenting for almost a decade that the biggest driver of new phone sales in China is a new form factor.
I’m sure that might be the same in other markets where an iPhone is a status symbol. It’s definitely not one in the US where 60% of phone buyers have iPhones.