On the road to fully automated luxury gay space communism.
Spreading Linux propaganda since 2020
Rules:
This new iPhone model is said to be “significantly thinner” than current iPhone models, and may align with a discontinuation of the iPhone Plus line. Though according to The Information, it is expected to be more expensive than the Pro Max model.
Is anyone actually asking for thinner phones or is this just engineers jacking themselves off
Pretty sure the last few iphones were already so thin you could accidentally snap them in half. Not sure what the thinking is here.
The latter. Gotta do something to pretend the wheels of technical progress are still spinning
They will probably have to start introducing unpopular features just to remove them in the next model. Innovation!
Apple is taking advantage of our monkey brains. We see someone else using a phone that’s sleeker, thinner, lighter, brighter, has a “cooler” color/design, has more cameras, etc etc and start to think we’re missing out despite having almost the same thing. They’ve made phone upgrades and payment plans so accessible that people don’t see it as unaffordable.
Guess I'm just built different. I used my last phone until it offed itself and my current phone is 4.5 years old. I'm more or less content with it.
Same. Rocking the same galaxy s9 I got used off backmarket for a couple of years now
Why?
Lighter
The newer phones are dense AF. They may get thinner but they are noticeably heavier.
they couldn't become much denser, my working assumption is the processor and screen will become slightly more efficient, so battery can get smaller 
I’m with you, like I don’t think we need to go thinner than we have before but could we return to like, iPhone 6 thickness?
My current phone is an enormous brick
gotta make the phone less resilient to snapping for some fucking reason
Ultra thin everywhere except for the camera bump which will be even easier to damage now. Just make the thickness uniform and fill it in with more battery capacity wtf...
Unless it can't be held without bleeding, it isn't thin enough.
I literally was about to quote that comic. Fuck nerds of all sorts
iPhone users long to get papercuts from holding our phones “wrong”, it’s true.
but seriously wtf is this design choice, iPhone 15 is already so thin that gripping it without a popsocket or similar is painful.
laughing at this because shit like the small pill camera box in the front is pretty much what huawei does
they just stealing chinese technology and shit now
give me a bigger battery so I can stay up all night posting, assholes
Everyone else is going to post relevant things to that story, so I'm just going to comment on the webcomic. Screw Simone Veil. The argument that nerds suck is hurt by her making it.
What did she do?
She did a kickstarter for a book, had a mental break and supposedly burned the book copies, demanded everyone delete her content off the internet and never mention it again, called everyone who continued to share her webcomic awful and IIRC even said it was harassment to keep sharing her stuff, then a couple years later said it was all just a bit and she just did everything as a troll (A lot of people still did not get the book they paid her for)
We’ll treat it as a case of 
Truly the worst crime of all: a trans woman having a mental breakdown and keeping some nerds from having their treats (a physical copy of a webcomic they've already read) (which they did actually later receive)
(Not everyone received their books that they paid for) (She said she faked the mental break)
Why are you this way? Faking a mental health episode for trolling purposes isn't a thing we just expect trans people to do, it's a messed up thing to do. Beyond the people who got mad, a bunch of people were worried she would hurt herself and she did it for a fucking joke.
Because it's incredibly obvious that she wasn't faking a mental health break and everyone with a modicum of empathy should be able to tell?
If you think a Blogpost titled "I faked having depression for profit on the internet" and a second Blogpost titled "I faked having faked depression for profit on the internet" should be taken at face value you are an idiot (not to mention the actual content of the Blogposts themselves make that even more clear)
OK except I'm not talking about her "I'm faking depression", "I'm faking faking depression" posts, but the whole kickstarter being a troll, the whole thing including burning the books deleting her website and pretending to have a mental health episode was pre planned.
https://www.inverse.com/input/culture/pictures-for-sad-children-webcomic-simone-veil-interview
This is frankly embarrassing on your part.
Ngl that’d be kinda nice they went way too big with the last few, my current phone is massive
Apple is just throwing things at the wall to increase average sale price metrics (see the plus models this is replacing).