There are levels of weight loss and thickness reduction.
I did not say "more power" nor "more battery life".
I know, but when you have laws that apply to 447 million people...
You actually said 'Give me power, battery life, durability, and repairability.' So I concede that I read that as saying you wanted more of those in lieu of thinner devices. But now I think you’re saying you just don’t want less of those, as you think a thinner device would give you less? Is that what you’re saying?
Making it removable will either make the phone thicker or it will have an even smaller battery.
I haven't used a case since the iPhone 3G, I've broke 1 screen since then (replacement has been cheaper than cases for all the phones since then, and with apple care 1 replacement is cheaper than 1 case). I just followed Neil deGrasse Tyson's advice and rarely drop my phone, and when I do I fumble it to the ground enough that when it hits, there is no damage.
This! This may sound odd but I do miss old Nokia design and then what they did with Lumia - it was durable, nice in touch due to polycarbons (I hate overuse of metal and glass in phones) and didn't require additional case just to make it last... and if it wore out one could change the case itself (as well as battery)... for a 'my precious, my shiny' we ended up in a world with kinda terrible and un-funcional devices... 🤦♂️
The people who are obsessed with making it thin to the detriment of usability are wrong. Every time Apple has done this, it's resulted in huge complaints and they've had to backtrack. Look how they screwed up the keyboards in the 2016 MacBook Pros. All that drama just to shave off 0.5mm.
I’m not who you replied to, but it’s relevant for me. I made the jump from a 2012 15” cMBP with the optical drive to an M2 Max 16” MacBook Pro. So the new one was lighter than my old one.
are you using iPhone 6s? cause that's the only thing that would explain someone calling the current iPhones "thin enough".
No disagreement from me. Whilst I have the 15 Pro, and love it, I just sold an iPhone 8 today. So light, and feels fantastic in the hand. I know we can’t go back, I wish we could.
Even though I don't share your take, I still gave you a like. Thanks for sharing your thoughts.
I think it's the designer in me speaking. And it's gonna sound ******** and very subjective.
istg they dont need to be thinner, if they can make it thinner, thinner is not the answer. give us more battery life, "make it thinner" is the one thing apple thinks of when they run out of ideas, there are better ideas like, more performance, efficiency, battery life. if they make it thinner, it may get hotter, run louder and sound like a jet engine like many pcs, or they may have to make it ugly and ergonomic and no one wants that
Apple intends to slim down the MacBook Pro, Apple Watch, and iPhone, with the new ultra-thin M4 iPad Pro a sign of the company's new design trajectory, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman.
When the M4 iPad Pro was unveiled last month, Apple touted it as the company's thinnest product ever, and even compared it to the 2012 iPod nano to emphasize its slim dimensions.
Writing in the latest edition of his Power On newsletter, Gurman says that like the iPad Pro, Apple is now focused on delivering the thinnest possible devices across its lineups without compromising on battery life or major new features.
Gurman writes that the new iPad Pro is the "beginning of a new class of Apple devices," and that Apple's aim is to offer "the thinnest and lightest products in their categories across the whole tech industry."
Apple now reportedly has its sights on making thinner versions of iPhone, Apple Watch, and MacBook Pro over the next couple of years.
Gurman's sources tell him Apple is now focused on developing a significantly skinnier iPhone in time for the iPhone 17 line in 2025, corroborating a May report by The Information. According to the latter report, Apple is planning to launch an all-new thinner iPhone 17 model next year that will allegedly feature a "major redesign" akin to the iPhone X.
Gurman previously reported that Apple is planning a complete revamp of the Apple Watch for the device's tenth anniversary, dubbed "Apple Watch X."
Since the original Apple Watch was unveiled in 2014 and launched in 2015, Gurman is unsure whether the Apple Watch X will be released in 2024 or 2025. However, Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo today claimed that this year's upcoming Apple Watch will have a larger screen and thinner design, which sounds like the sort of major overhaul and design signature that Gurman has suggested.
In 2021, Apple significantly redesigned the MacBook Pro, making it thicker and heavier. A major highlight of the redesign was the reintroduction of several ports that were removed in previous iterations in favor of chassis thinness. MacBook Pro models now include an HDMI port, an SD card slot, MagSafe 3 charging port, three Thunderbolt 4 (USB-C) ports, and a headphone jack.
Article Link: Apple Developing Thinner MacBook Pro, Apple Watch, and iPhone
