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It's previously been claimed that Apple may need to lower the MagSafe magnets in the iPhone 17 range because of the phones' larger camera bumps. The presumption has been that the circular array of magnets will be repositioned slightly lower down the iPhone.

Now a new image from a leaker on Chinese social media site Weibo has shown off case designs that match this claimed lower position.

Pillonel says he designed the case as a response to planned obsolescence. He wants people to get more life out of older devices without having to upgrade or rely on fragile accessories.

The design of his case has the USBC port in the corner. All it takes is a drop on that corner and that port could become unusable.

And since it is a case, something people change out quite a bit, is it any more sustainable than this?




Or just continuing to use existing Lightning cables, which there is many?

mpantone said:

First of all Apple is not bringing back the iPhone mini. Let it go. I'm one of a very, Very, VERY small group of people who prefer smaller phones. Apple has sold smaller phones for years, they know exactly how many they sold and how the demand curve was trending before they canned the iPhone 13 mini.

As for the other iPhone models, I predict that any iPhone with only one rear camera will end up selling poorly. Poor sales of iPhone 16e in India shows that even price-conscious markets will lean toward an older iPhone with multiple rear cameras versus the current entry level 16e model.

That's because Joe Consumer all over the world prioritizes these features: camera, display, battery.

Well, never say never. 

There is a niche of buyers who will buy a small phone, just as there is a niche of buyers who will buy a $2000 folding display phone. I've said it before that iPhone mini had enough sales imo. It was on order 3 to 5 million unit sales. That is enough. The issue I think Apple is having was gross margins weren't as high as Apple wanted. This can be addressed easily enough if they want to bring this type of model back, as well as addressing battery.

They could make it seven iPhones:

iPhone Fold
iPhone Pro Max
iPhone Pro
iPhone Air
iPhone
iPhone e
iPhone mini

Just continue to offer phones for the niches. They do this for Macs, with 8 models currently and rumors for a 9th! 

Mac Pro
Mac Studio
Mac mini
iMac
Macbook Pro 16
Macbook Pro 14
Macbook Air 15
Macbook Air 13

And, a 10th could be a "Macbook Pro Max 18", a portable Mac Studio.

Will be interesting to see how Apple hides the camera bumps on the iPhone fold model. Probably will use what is in the iPhone 17 Air. Still, all these folding phones don't lie flat on a table, and they look ever more egregious as the main body gets thinner.

SmittyW said:

For instance, a Tim Cook doppelganger being cast in the role of psychopathic tech company CEO in Jurassic Park Dominion. 

Yeah, that was pretty weird. I was a bit peeved at seeing that.

The Jurassic Park/World series are basically popcorn Frankenstein movies, whose intrinsic message is anti-science, while showing us some cool dinosaurs to suck in the kids and adults. And the villains in the movies inevitably went down the capitalist billionaire archtype. Ok, but Tim Cook? Like the worst that can be said about him is he doesn't give developers a good deal in the App Store? He says no to too many tech demo products?

Wonder if the writers or producers have made any comment on why? They could have chosen so many other "billionaires" who are doing crazy shit. Some are most certainly funding life extension technology in some form or another, which is basically the motivator behind some of the Jurassic movies. Tim Cook does have a distinctive look which makes him very recognizable, and he is quite well known, but Jurassic World Dominion got it all wrong with styling the villain after him.