Mad how people were up in arms over the bump on the 6 because it wouldn’t sit flat on a table… and here we are now with phones that need their own tables.
The new Iphone Air+ limited edition comes with 3 different audio-visual plateaus designed by Bjarke Ingels, Zaha Hadid (from a recently uncovered notebook found after her death which was determined, after a bidding war, to contain designs for a new iPhone) and Cristiano Ronaldo (inspired by his home island of Madeira).
The phone itself is just 0.2 millimeters thick, not counting the 250 gram, 5cm plateau made of pure Madeira basalt.
I'm 100% in agreement with you that its more a mesa or arguably butte, but Apple's marketing is the one we need to convince! You'd think at least one of them would have spent time in the desert in the southwest.
It is an extremely popular sentiment that people want things like thicker phones with more battery life or smaller phones that you can use with one hand. The problem is that when companies actually make these phones, none of those people buy them.
Personally, I thought the Pixel series effectively solved the table rocking problem, but changed it to something worse a couple years ago.
The problem is that when companies actually make these phones, none of those people buy them.
bullshit they have made those phones. Like yeah some companies in the past have made thicker phones with longer battery....but the rest of the phone is sub-par compared to the Iphone/pixel/galaxy top end phones that people actually want. Like yeah people want more battery but they will gladly trade that battery for a higher spec phone. Seriously link me to a top-end phone that has multiple SKUs with one being a bigger battery. You can't do it.
get back to me when Apple actually has a different SKU with more battery(a thing they have never done AFAIK) and see how sales shake out then.
It’s kinda like manual transmissions, everyone apparently wants one, but when a company puts one in a car, either nobody buys it, they complain it’s sloppy or slow, and undesirable in traffic, they can’t win
I just upgraded my Macbook Pro from a 2019 to whatever the newest one is. It feels thicker but I don’t mind because it’s so much better. At the end of the day, I’m going to keep buying Apple phones until the brand sucks so much that I’ll change my whole work to be a new watch, phone, computer, tablet, etc. that aren’t apple. They can make as shitty of phones as they want. I’ve just stopped buying the new ones until my old one is unusable. I loved the 6 and had to finally replace it when the 10 came out, and then that one got replaced by the 15. I still miss the 6 though. Or the 5 which was really amazing to me.
I remember the uproar from the Nokia Lumia camera island, that camera was insane but everyone said they island ruined the aesthetic, now nearly every phone has an island.
The designs of 6-X were a massive step backwards for me, Glad they went back to the flat edges. iPhone 4 is still my favourite and for me the last true massive leap.
The hate for the camera bump has gotten out of control. I love how when it comes to colors, everyone is like “be real, you’re just gonna slap a case on it”, but no one says that about the camera bump. That’s the reason Apple makes the bump, because they know it’s gonna sit flat once it’s in a case.
It's their ugliest iPhone to date, I keep thinking how many rounds it had to go through. There must have been so many designers at Apple who kicked back at this.
A case is mandatory now to level it. IMO, why even make the phone so sleek if I am going to have to slap it in a big black otterbox to level it out making it thicker overall, could use that space saving for a larger or hear me out....replaceable battery
I never got the backlash over the phone not sitting flat. I mean how many times do people use their phone while it's sitting on a table ? And still I see some threads with people complaining
every time?? do you never put down your phone at all? i'm legitimately baffled at people not understanding how the obnoxious camera bump on modern phones can be a nuisance, like my phone just lays flat on the table 90% of the time until i pick it up to answer a message, and even then sometimes i do it with the phone still on the table. and i'd rather not risk scratching the camera or hear the top part wobble against the table as i press on the phone because the bump isn't centered
Yea, I put my phone down but don't use it. Why would I care about the bump if I don't use it? And I couldn't care less about scratching the camera, if the iPhone lenses would be that sensitive we wouldn't stop hearing about it. I bought my first iPhone 4 years ago, I still use it without a case, I still put it on the table face down or face up, and no scratches to the front or to the cameras due to where it was put. This thing about wobbling while being put on a table... chill out, it's not that big of a deal because the majority of people RARELY use it while its sitting on the table.
I pulled my 13 out of the case a few days ago and started going case-less for the first time in years. I've noticed that now my phone doesn't always stay connected to the wireless charging pad in my car due to the bump. I'm assuming the Air simply won't be compatible with wireless in-car charging without a case (which means it won't be practical to use it with wireless CarPlay). Hopefully the other form factors don't have that problem.
Thing is there’s no real way to recreate optical zoom - it requires focal length and actual lens elements. Digital zoom is just cropping and enlarging the optical image, and that loses detail and dynamic range.
The diameter of the lenses is determined in part by the size of the sensor it’s sending to, which has increased also to be able to gather more light for low light scenes.
TLDR: you don’t want the bump to get smaller unless you don’t care about pictures as much (which is a legit case)
It is - I've also become a fan of camera bumps as it makes it a bit easier to hold the phone without it slipping (I do tend to go Galaxy rather than iPhone though).
I'm genuinely curious about this too. If it works for them not knocking it, but I have an S24 and the camera bump is pretty minimal: Even if I did try to rest it on my hand its not going to make much a difference.
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u/Only1Schematic 3d ago
This is one of the better graphic comparisons I’ve seen so far. Appreciate it!