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Apple's iPhone 17 Slim is a wrongheaded approach that ignores what people really want
Exactly. I would prefer it if people would just talk about what THEY would, or wouldn’t like, rather than trying to impress it upon others as though everyone agreed. If everyone agreed, there would be one phone manufacturer, selling one phone model, with no options. As far as I can tell, that’s not happening.hmlongco said:
I'd submit that Apple knows their customer base better than you do. They've done more research than you have. And that they know their customers like colors. If anything, they've often been chastised for having too few.Calvinator said:When you run out of ideas, you make up a solution for a non-problem and pass it off as the reason to upgrade way more often than necessary.
Tim Cook's obsession with thinness and pretty new colors for existing products is embarrassing.
Steve Jobs would never, and I mean never, allow Apple's user experience to get so out of control.
And as to Steve, I really, really, really, really, really wish people would stop channeling the ghost of someone they don't know and have never met in an attempt to bolster their own weak arguments. I guess they do that when they run out of ideas.
You remember, do you not, when Steve came back to Apple and induced the iMac? In colors?????????
And then later on introduced dozens upon dozens of iPods... in colors?????????
Or when Apple reintroduced the iMac line? in colors?????????
it’s correct to mention whether something sold well, or not. I remember a number of years ago, after the “other” phone manufacturers stopped making their keyboarded models, that there was a movement to make a new keyboard phone. A couple of manufacturers tried, and a couple made just add on keyboards. But it always seems that the smaller the group, the more vocal they are and the “we want a keyboard” group was pretty loud. But it turned out that, at most, a million people around the world wanted one. That’s a failure from the beginning.
Apple make fewer phone models than other major makers. So their philosophy is to make iconic phones (or anything they make, really), and sell a lot of each, rather than small numbers of lots of models. At one time, Nokia had 225 different phones. Yeah, Apple’s not going to do that.
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Apple's iPhone 17 Slim is a wrongheaded approach that ignores what people really want
Of course some people will want this. The question is how many? Anyone here remember when “people wanted” a cheaper iPhone and so app,EU came out with the 5c? They so,d millions, but not enough for Apple to continue making a polycarbonate back phone. So, if this phone is going to g to be real, it will be interesting to see the take up. There must be some reason Apple thinks this will sell well enough, assuming that’s really what they’re thinking.
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Apple takes over more NYC office space from Macy's
I wouldn’t walk cross 5th avenue most of the day during a red light. At least, not if you expect to get to the other side.anonymouse said:
Now that jaywalking is officially legal.melgross said:That’s not really far. I’ve done more than that through Manhattan many times over the years. It’s at most a 25 minute walk, depending on traffic lights. Often, it takes less time. I can make it in 15 minutes the way I walk.
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Apple takes over more NYC office space from Macy's
That’s not really far. I’ve done more than that through Manhattan many times over the years. It’s at most a 25 minute walk, depending on traffic lights. Often, it takes less time. I can make it in 15 minutes the way I walk. At any rate, the distance from the 5th ave store isn’t relevant. They’re two separate entities.
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iPhone 17 Slim too thin for SIM tray, may not have mmWave
I just came from YouTube where an Apple oriented channel was discussing this not yet real phone as it were a done deal. An an analyst, or sometimes a second one will later get into the act, claims a phone is going to me made. Maybe they’re right and maybe not. Even the best have predicted something that didn’t happen. But even if it dies, we don’t know the actual specs. Apple was the first to drop sims. The baby sim was their design, back when Nokia wanted their idea to be adopted and said that if Apple’s was, they wouldn’t support it.tht said:
Is the Vivo X5Max 4.75 mm or 5.1 mm? Conflicting news articles abound. Even GSMArena's review has the numbers mixed up.addicted44 said:Why does Apple insist on bullshitting its users.The Vivo X5 Max that came out a decade ago was 4.75mm thin and not only did it have a SIM, it had a Dual Sim where the second SIM slot could also be used for a MicroSD card.If they find that a SIM card slot is now unnecessary then all power to them. But it's really fascinating that they instead spew lies making it appear that the device is just way too thin for a SIM card, and worse, expect people to lap it up without ever realizing that Apple is just blatantly insulting their intelligence.
If you read the article, or any article about this rumored iPhone, you'd know that Apple has not said anything about this iPhone, and haven't claimed anything about it. The rumors are entirely based on supply chain parts, and virtually every leaker comes up with made-up reasons for why Apple does this or that. In short, they don't know why Apple does things, only that there are parts floating around the supply chain. So, the leakers are bullshitting you, not Apple.
The rumors are that this iPhone is 5 to 6 mm thick. Some leakers come up with stupid reasons why it will be thicker, like they can't make a battery thin enough to go into a 5 mm, never mind that Apple is already shipping hundreds of thousands to millions of much larger batteries going into the iPad Pro 13" models.
AI isn't saying that this iPhone is too thin to have SIM trays. That's an incorrect conclusion from your reading of the article. Apple has already shipped millions of devices without SIM trays and they are about 7 to 8 mm thick. Apple is likely doing this for reliability, user experience, and ease of manufacturing reasons, not because of this or that device being too thin.
when Apple came out with the electronic sim, everyone (well, many people) were unhappy because it didn’t support many sims. Now it supports eight with three active at once. All the reasons to support physical sims is going away, with most carriers around the world now supporting this technology (which again, is Apple’s, initially).
so all of the nonsense we get regarding these things is just a few people wanting to voice their usual criticisms of whatever Apple does. That’s fine. Apple will happily cruise along without them as it always has. I know these people,e don’t believe that there are others who actually would want a phone credit card thin. I’m not one of them, but they’re out there.
