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Post by runako »

baby wrote: post #225
aurareturn wrote: post #58

It 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.

In all seriousness, is there a folding phone that doesn't have a crease in the screen while unfolded?

The one I have used felt like using a real phone through a layer of vinyl, definitely not a pleasant experience.

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Post by mistercheph »

chongli wrote: post #296
Nition wrote: post #249

It's more the other two dimensions that I want shrunk. Did anyone think their phone was too thick to fit in their pocket?

We're in the minority. The iPhone Minis did not sell well. I think women especially do not want a small phone because they carry it in a purse anyway (and slap a case on it with an extra handle to make it easier to hold).

Because phones are status symbols for most people, what better way to show youve made it then pulling a giant shiny rock out of your pocket.

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Post by notcodingtoday »

jdprgm wrote: post #187

Can 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.

Easy mid-way product realization from research they had to do for folding phones.

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Post by clarkmoreno »

baby wrote: post #227
jdprgm wrote: post #187

Can 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.

Same question here. Why would I buy this instead of folding phones that provide a tablet-like screen on demand?

Stop bringing up the folding phone in different threads. Very few people want that.

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Post by HarHarVeryFunny »

bsimpson wrote: post #178
apriljo wrote: post #127

I'd be paranoid all the time about breaking it by accidentally sitting on it. Thinner just means it won't have as much strength to resist being bent into an ass-shaped curve, right?

iPhone Cup is coming out next year, pre-curved.

iPhone Ass, made to fit in your back pocket.

iPhone Ass Pro, for those with a larger ass.

Re: iPhone Air

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Post by prng2021 »

They’re running out of ways to innovate across all of their product lines. Introducing yet another product size is the easiest way for them to make it look like the iPhone is still innovating. I’m sure there will eventually be an Apple Watch Air as well as iPad Pro Max/Ultra too.

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Post by layer8 »

scarface_74 wrote: post #250
jdprgm wrote: post #187

Can 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.

On the other hand, the iPhone Air is eSIM-only, and carriers in China generally don't support eSIM (with one exception apparently [0]).

[0] https://www.macrumors.com/2025/09/09/iphone-air-esim-china-u...

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