Same here. Many times, I've seen someone carrying an iPhone without a case and I think, "wow, that iPhone looks really nice" and then I realize that it's the exact model and color that I already have.
This is why I think Apple's obsession with thinness, color and edge design of the phone is ridiculous. The phones aren't robust enough to carry without a case and with a case you don't see any of that stuff anyway.
don't worry! they will release many different colors slowly and strategically in the coming years, along with other minor improvements, to keep us buying ridiculously expensive pocket computers
I enjoy my pocket computer. Why don't you? If not don't keep buying them...
As for improvements, iterative improvement is the name of the game. Gruber wrote about this almost a decade ago. Read up.
Same here. Many times, I've seen someone carrying an iPhone without a case and I think, "wow, that iPhone looks really nice" and then I realize that it's the exact model and color that I already have.
This is why I think Apple's obsession with thinness, color and edge design of the phone is ridiculous. The phones aren't robust enough to carry without a case and with a case you don't see any of that stuff anyway.
Of course they are. Mine's setting on my desk right now without a case, I carry it and use it without a case just fine. In fact the only time I use a case is when going to the gym or out drinking. It's fine, you're just scared.
Making devices thinner is how we keep pushing the state of the art and get our tech to a place where it can do things it couldn't do before -- like stuck into a watch, or a folding phone, or whatever they come up with. You can't get to the neat devices of the sci-fi future by halting engineering at iPhone 3G or 4 levels for all time. That's absurd.
Same here. Many times, I've seen someone carrying an iPhone without a case and I think, "wow, that iPhone looks really nice" and then I realize that it's the exact model and color that I already have.
This is why I think Apple's obsession with thinness, color and edge design of the phone is ridiculous. The phones aren't robust enough to carry without a case and with a case you don't see any of that stuff anyway.
Of course they are. Mine's setting on my desk right now without a case, I carry it and use it without a case just fine. In fact the only time I use a case is when going to the gym or out drinking. It's fine, you're just scared.
Making devices thinner is how we keep pushing the state of the art and get our tech to a place where it can do things it couldn't do before -- like stuck into a watch, or a folding phone, or whatever they come up with. You can't get to the neat devices of the sci-fi future by halting engineering at iPhone 3G or 4 levels for all time. That's absurd.
All glass phones (Gorilla Glass or not) are not robust in the number one 'accident incident': drops onto hard surfaces. It's a lottery.
By not using a case you are eliminating the first line of protection against a drop. That's your call but the OP has a valid point whichever way you look at it. Including yours.
Most modern glass phones are built to be relatively comfortable in the hand but almost always sacrifice grip in the process. Cases also often solve that issue and in doing so, reduce the chances of suffering a fall in the first place.
As for being armchair CEO, pundits or whatever other derogatory term you wish to use. They are used as cheap insults and nothing more.
We are all armchair whatevers. That includes the CEOs of many companies. The only people who are not, are those who sit on the boards of the companies we comment on. That means just about everybody. And pointing to Gruber is simply pointing to another opinion. There is no 'Book of Gruber' which holds the absolute truth and what is true today might not be true later on so pointing to a decade old article is just that: a decade old article.
'oh look, we found the armchair CEO!'
Latko has an opinion. The least we can do is respect it and counter it with respect.
Sorry (not sorry) for the sarcasm, but this has all of the excitement of a wet tea bag, since all that I see everyone at work do is put a protective cover over it, so they can have pink and cyan paisley on a purple/yellow checkerboard pattern, and nobody'd never know.
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This is why I think Apple's obsession with thinness, color and edge design of the phone is ridiculous. The phones aren't robust enough to carry without a case and with a case you don't see any of that stuff anyway.
I enjoy my pocket computer. Why don't you? If not don't keep buying them...
As for improvements, iterative improvement is the name of the game. Gruber wrote about this almost a decade ago. Read up.
https://www.macworld.com/article/1151235/macs/apple-rolls.html
Making devices thinner is how we keep pushing the state of the art and get our tech to a place where it can do things it couldn't do before -- like stuck into a watch, or a folding phone, or whatever they come up with. You can't get to the neat devices of the sci-fi future by halting engineering at iPhone 3G or 4 levels for all time. That's absurd.
By not using a case you are eliminating the first line of protection against a drop. That's your call but the OP has a valid point whichever way you look at it. Including yours.
Most modern glass phones are built to be relatively comfortable in the hand but almost always sacrifice grip in the process. Cases also often solve that issue and in doing so, reduce the chances of suffering a fall in the first place.
As for being armchair CEO, pundits or whatever other derogatory term you wish to use. They are used as cheap insults and nothing more.
We are all armchair whatevers. That includes the CEOs of many companies. The only people who are not, are those who sit on the boards of the companies we comment on. That means just about everybody. And pointing to Gruber is simply pointing to another opinion. There is no 'Book of Gruber' which holds the absolute truth and what is true today might not be true later on so pointing to a decade old article is just that: a decade old article.
'oh look, we found the armchair CEO!'
Latko has an opinion. The least we can do is respect it and counter it with respect.
Can't innovate, my astronauts...
Where are the new watch bands to go with this?
Sorry (not sorry) for the sarcasm, but this has all of the excitement of a wet tea bag, since all that I see everyone at work do is put a protective cover over it, so they can have pink and cyan paisley on a purple/yellow checkerboard pattern, and nobody'd never know.