Women will buy thinner phones. Fat phone makes you look fat. A delicate slim phone feels better! (kind of joking, but who knows)
Some people, not just women, might think that thinner means more advanced. After all, it's always been somewhat the case in general - remember the old 5kg monitors? Now you have flat LCDs.
I, however, am uncomfortable with thin laptop. I don't feel it's safe to put it in the backpack with other things. After all, what if I have to run? Will it endure the jolting? What if somebody bumps into me from behind in a crowded place? Probably it will be fine, but it is still somewhat unnerving.
But manufacturers want to make stuff that breaks. If it doesn't the you sell little. It can't be really bad, because then you'll get bad reputation, but if it's too good then you'll be outcompeted. I think it's possible to make a laptop that most likely will never break and will remain upgradeable for the next 50 years. But it would require cooperation from many hardware manufacturers because every part would have to be made with quality in mind, instead of profit and scalability.
We will not cooperate because we don't really need high quality laptops. What we have is good enough.
Gimmicks are easy to add. Some of the most annoying are touchscreens. Why on earth would you need a touchscreen on a laptop? Touching screens makes you look like an idiot. Remember those silly stock images of high tech where people touch holograms? I never liked them. It's like trying to sell electronics to apes. You don't explain, you show with gestures how you can interact with this thingy.
Actually annoying is not the right word. They make me feel uncomfortably superior. I don't know why.