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[+] 33 points 1 year ago (5 children)
  • [–] 30 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Customers: We want a smaller phone!

    Apple: *Makes iPhone Air

    Customers: Not like that!

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  • [+] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)
  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    @Yesbutnotreally Those flimsy ass phones were insane, a far bigger Jonny Ive controversy than the thin ass MacBooks. They’d bend from putting them in your jeans pocket!

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  • [–] 53 points 1 year ago (14 children)

    A thin phone is kinda cool, who actually needs that? And because of the humongous camera bulge it's not that thin anyway.

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  • [–] 25 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Apple offers 7 years of of ios updates, how about a battery large enough that it is still usable after a few years of use.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    I used my 8 plus (or whatever the flagship was at that time) for 8 years and for 7.5 years the battery was fine. In the last six months I had some issues when it died before the alarm went off, hence the new device. I do miss the fingerprint reader and 3D touch though.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Biggest selling point of Ultra watches and Pro phones. People are tired of constipated battery specs from Apple and releasing a phone which worsen this aspect was going to fail miserably… it doesn’t have even 1/10 of the wow factor to succeed with the trade offs it brings

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    if this was my year to upgrade i might have gotten one. I use a magsafe wallet which evens out the back with the camera bulge.

    99% of my days the battery would probably be sufficient, but if I'm going on a trip or whatever I can use a magsafe charger. You can't do the opposite with a thick phone; you're just carrying unnecessary bulk every single day.

    the main issue for me is the price. I like the idea, but I'm not sure how much of a premium I want to pay for it, if any.

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  • [–] -3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Apple needs it. So people break their devices even easier and have to spend more money.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Worse camera and battery than the regular iPhone 17 but higher price. I can’t put my finger on why it doesn’t sell…

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I’m perfectly happy with mine.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Me too buddy, there are dozens of us! Lol. The air happens to fit my needs perfectly. I want a thin and light phone, don’t really use my camera and battery usage is fine. I can totally appreciate if somebody is a heavy user this phone isn’t for them.

    As for the price, yup it’s expensive. Feels like holding a piece of jewellery, and that’s nice.

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  • It's totally fine that you both like it and I'm not saying it's a bad phone at all. It's certainly very beautiful, probably feels nice in the hand and is overall a competent iPhone with just less camera. But most people are looking at the price, compare it to the other models and see that it just doesn't make sense. It's a pure luxury product that is still cheaper than a Pro so who exactly is the audience?

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago

    if it was a lower price than the standard model it’d sell more

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago*

    I know "who is this for?" and "what would Steve Jobs say?" are tired memes, but... still. An even thinner body? Really?

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Can't believe the thickest iPhone ever is selling so poorly.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

    Is it actually the thickest? I know the stuff about it being the thinnest is a bold face lie.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I was curious: looks like at the bump the Air is ~0.28mm thinner than the OG iPhone. So no, but it’s damn close.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Lmao.

    Is the number for the OG average or the biggest thickness. The earlier models were rounded/not a prism.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    You mean a bad economy and poor pay for the average worker compounds into a worse economy?

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    I actually really liked it when I tried, so I got one. I realized that I do want a phone that makes its presence more lightly known.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    I want that too but just make it smaller. I don't want a giant screen burning through battery and just thinner by taking away battery. Work on x and y first, then maybe z.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    honestly though how much battery do you need on an average day?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    With how much we depend on the phone for everything, I need a phone that covers 99% of the days, not just the average.

    For being in the office working, 90 min of active usage gets me to the next charger.

    What about going it's out with the family, taking lots of photos and videos, using the maps+GPS...?

    Also, battery degrades. One that barely covers today will be lacking in 1.5 years. Small battery is a form of planned obsolesce.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    I'm genuinely curious. How does this fit your normal usage? Does the bulk under the camera not negate the thin body?

    I guess, could you just expand on your thought.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    It’s much lighter both in my pocket and my hands. It feels much less obtrusive in a pocket overall despite the bump, which when holding it one-handed can sometimes even be an affordance that keeps it from slipping.

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  • In the UK, maybe other places, apple still has to use normal sim cards. All except that Air, because it just cant. Theres no room. I might have given the phone a shot, if I could have just popped my sim in and took it for a spin. But with having to fuck about with esims, the answer was no.

    I wouldnt say no to a new mini though...

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    The price is off. It’s more expensive than the base model but with worse specs. If someone is willing to pay more, they’ll get the pro, not the air.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Good, let that atrocity burn and bring back the mini you blundering idiots!

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    I don’t need a super thin iphone. I want an iphone that has full bars in my kitchen. And gtfo with that pricing.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    My 15 already feels impossibly thin, especially when I take the case off.

    What is this obsession with thinness at this point? I honestly think that going thinner doesn’t matter anymore. Everything is already extremely thin.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    I remembered posting that I wondered who the hell would buy this. Now I know it's exactly who I thought.

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  • [+] -15 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Bend gate 2.0 with a crappy battery for too much money.

    Gee, I wonder why they aren’t selling?

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    the air stands up to absurdly high bend forces in tests and there was certainly no “bend gate 2.0”

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  • [+] -11 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    That may be so, but perception is reality. Nobody trusts it. The first thing everyone thinks is “that’s going to bend”. It doesn’t need to be true to sway people’s purchase.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)
  • [+] -10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Ok I’m sorry. You’re right. It’s selling like hotcakes then.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    or maybe there are other reasons people don't want it. crazy huh.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago*

    yeah, like who the fuck wants a phone with 60% battery of what a MUCH cheaper phone has?

    jerryrig battle tested that phone, and sure, props to Apple for building it so tough. but nobody cares about a thin unbreakable phone.

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