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I…actually like my MacBook Air…
It’s weird but the portability is nice. I’ve been lugging desktop replacements for so long that having something that can fit anywhere and not break my back is cool.
Now does EVERYTHING need to be like that, no.
Ports are just offline compatibility.
And we can't have that, can we?
--Silicon Valley Giants That Force Design Paradigms
What's this from?
Thinner (1996)
Got a Zenbook Duo last year. As thick as an old Thinkad.
But it has two screens; one under the keyboard. The keyboard pops off, then you prop it up with the kickstand to get one at eye level and the other below.
It's friggin amazing.
I’m all for this on laptops. I’ve had external monitors for so long that when I have to work using only the laptop screen, it’s difficult to be effective. It’s great that laptops are small and light but I’ll sacrifice some of that for more screen size
My phone has a headphone jack. I never want to let it go
Headphone jack and removeable battery for me. I always have 3 batteries in rotation, and replace the oldest one every 2 years or so.
Carry a spare in my pack and have a 3rd charging on an external charger to swap out at home.
Im currently working full time doing solar installs. I do a lot of the EE and physical design, and can edit both from my phone, whole working off of existing plans. And I can't exactly have my phone plugged in while up on a roof. So I just swap out my battery when it gets low.
The when I get home, I swap out the dead battery for the one on the charger, and plug my phone in while I sleep.
I also end up catering or 'celeb' bartending 2x a month or so during the season out here. On those days ill often swap to the 3rd battery before I go to work for the evening so I have a fresh battery and can run the music off my phone all evening, without having to worry about power.
I traded my headphone jack for a pen. I'm buying a new active USB-C-to-Jack converter every six month, because techbros fell in love with some futuristic concept image featuring a cyborg girl wearing what appears to be wireless earbuds. (At least the full transparent glass phone apocalypse is further away)
If they ever do that I will refuse to call them anything other than datapads
The iPhone Air would've been a really refreshing change if it was uniformly thin (i.e. like now, but without the camera bulge).
In the other extreme I wonder why there aren't many phones that would fill up the space up to the protruding camera modules with battery - this way a smaller phone could have the battery capacity of a larger and thinner one.
Yeah, or along the same lines I would love to see
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Whole phone as thick as cameras, while still using good cameras.
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Much of that space taken up by battery
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Rest of that space taken up by some kind of compact cooling system that even has a thin little fan that can kick on when it's docked
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Because of course i'm talking about a dockable Linux phone
(I'm already seeing problems, like the fan probably needs to be part of the dock and the phone use the outside surface of the case as its heat sink)
Yeah, I meant most of that with the second paragraph. I'm just doubtful that active cooling would happen on mobile - manufacturers seem generally averse to including any moving parts (remember popup front cameras?). The direction that makes more sense to me is to make CPUs more thermally efficient.
Make components smaller so you can have it be more powerful, not so it can be smaller and the same power.
Give me a week long battery.
Give me an actual camera sensor.
Give me no more lag.
Give me real storage.
Give me a fucking headphone jack.
Give me a replaceable battery!
Give me smaller, dedicated buttons.
Give me a phone with a real frame, something I can sit on, jump on, lean on, and use as a hammer.
Give me a phone that doesn't have components that slowly work themselves free over a few years.
No more planned obsolescence.
Give me texture! I want to be able to grip my phone and not have it constantly slide off tables and couches because glass is so smooth.
Omg yes that's the worst. I've also had CASES that do this. Super annoying.
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I want smaller, not thinner, if I wanted a large phone, I would have used a tablet to take calls
Product R&D engineer here. I have a product manager who only knows how to give one piece of feedback: make it smaller and slimmer. What requirement is driving this? Can't say. What user need are we trying to address? No idea. But smaller=better for some reason.
Have you considered arranging an office white water rafting trip or perhaps cave diving, where a terrible misfortune may befall this person?
One thing people who don't build products tend to imagine is that PMs are constantly doing market research, data analysis, focus groups, etc.
That may be true at some companies, but IME they can be clueless beyond belief because their real job is to be salespeople. They sell dreams to executives. Whether those will actually sell is a much lower concern.
See also: AI being shoved down everyone's throats.
I bet that once upon a time, this was standard operating procedure.
Ask them why then.
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