• big_slap@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    an amazing engineering achievement for sure, but i just wonder what consumer wanted thinner phones.

    I’d buy an iphone immediately if they gave me a chunky phone that lasted a week on a single charge. now THAT would be an engineering achievement lol

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      4 months ago

      Apparently both this one and the Samsung one are selling well, so… Somebody does.

      This has come and gone. Feature phones had their thin&light phase, too. And it suits the manufacturers because they’re doing this work to make foldables anyway, so selling the thin candybar is a free side gig. Which is probably needed, because to riff on your point, what consumer wants to spend 2K on a bad tablet with a plastic screen that folds into a mediocre phone?