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Apple Announces iPhone Air With Ultra-Thin Design (www.macrumors.com)
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[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 18 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Ultra-Thin

but why

[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

They ran out of ideas when Steve Jobs died of ligma

[–] treyf711@eviltoast.org 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Who’s Steve Jobs?

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Who is ligmar?

[–] B0rax@feddit.org 6 points 2 months ago

Because it looks impressive

[–] Xatolos@reddthat.com 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago

Samsung did it because it leaked Apple was always doing this.

It’s likely a test case for their upcoming foldable. If they make it this thin they can Cana decent idea of some of the failure modes of the foldable that they may not have predicted.

[–] MML@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago

You can actually feel the radiation!

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

So you can roll it. Probably.