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Though amusing, I feel it's worth noting this image had to go back over a decade—eleven years—to find an iPhone without a camera bump of some kind, and would have to go back 6 years to get a pro-level camera without a plateau of some kind.
I agree that a dual measurement should be included, body thickness and camera plateau, but it never has been, so here we are.
And to give credit where it's due, I have no desire to own an iPhone Air, but it IS a bit of astonishing engineering. They've used the plateau to provide a place for the logic board, and turned basically the entire body into a battery to preserve decent battery life. Love 'em or hate 'em, Apple has a world-class engineering team.
an amazing engineering achievement for sure, but i just wonder what consumer wanted thinner phones.
I'd buy an iphone immediately if they gave me a chunky phone that lasted a week on a single charge. now THAT would be an engineering achievement lol
Apparently both this one and the Samsung one are selling well, so... Somebody does.
This has come and gone. Feature phones had their thin&light phase, too. And it suits the manufacturers because they're doing this work to make foldables anyway, so selling the thin candybar is a free side gig. Which is probably needed, because to riff on your point, what consumer wants to spend 2K on a bad tablet with a plastic screen that folds into a mediocre phone?
A lot of people buy the latest Samsung and Apple just because they're new and a status symbol to them. I don't think it's a good metric for week wants what.
I do think many people want thin for various reasons, just doing think it's valid proof.