• T156@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Especially since waterproof phones with replaceable batteries already existed. They aren’t exactly working from nothing.

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      1 year ago

      I remember dunking my flip phone into glasses of water as a party trick and it was totally fine. This would’ve been around 2010 or so.

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        1 year ago

        I don’t think anybody really cares about an extra half millimetre of thickness, especially if it means that you can save hundreds in replacement costs and extend its life by a few years. Nobody’s buying an iPhone and busting out the calipers to compare it to their previous phone.

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          I care. This thing’s already thick and heavy enough, and I don’t particularly care about popping the back off my phone to replace a battery. It’s like…once every two years that I have to replace it.

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          1 year ago

          Apple’s sales fall and people don’t buy new phones because “it looks just like last year’s phone.”

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          1 year ago

          You also start running into usability issues. There’s only so thin a phone can be before it’s less of a phone, and more of a blade that’ll bend if you sneeze at it wrong.