Capitalist innovation.
https://youtu.be/IS0SItAzEXg?si=qul70USoan3sN-NW&t=440
7:20 in the video
it breaks so easily wtf
There really is no goddamn point in releasing new models this frequently anymore. The only thing that gets upgraded in any meaningful way is the camera and even that is small potatoes relatively speaking. They’re burning through rare earth metals right at the time we need to be conserving this shit. Give us a phone we can replace the battery in, that’s the innovation we really need.
At least give us phones which have uniform thickness so that the camera bezels are flat, that way they can fit higher capacity batteries into the phones.
Never has there been a lost sale because one smartphone is 0.5mm thicker than other offerings.
Yeah that’s one area where the smartphone manufacturers are completely out of sync with the market. No one wants to return to those 90’s giant brick cell phones, but the first thing everyone does with a new smartphone is, buy a thick ass ten foot drop rated case and a shield protector. We very clearly have no issue with our phones being thicker.
All the consumers are like “I want fewer ports”, “I want a thinner, less durable phone”, “I need a smaller battery capacity”
I just wanna design phones for God’s sake!
No expandable memory either. I love paying three hundred dollars out my bleeding ass for 512 gigs of internal only storage, instead of $100 for a 2tb SD card.
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Yea glass sucks. They can’t do metal because wireless charging (and nfc?) won’t work and plastic is for the poors.
that said on most android phones, replacement glass costs like $20-30
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i think on older iphones the glass was glued on so it was impossible to remove without breaking it.
then there is this, glass is completely separate and it looks like there is a gap between the phone and glass causing it to break with light press.
Yeah the hole that allows wireless charging to work is a point of weakness. Could easily have been solved with having a bit of plastic backing the glass so that it doesn’t cave in like that. Apple could have bragged about how they also used recycled plastic since they like pointing how much recycled material they used in making their newest products.
Worse than bend-gate 🤣
Also “the most repairable iPhone” is extremely rich coming from Apple when they’re constantly adding DRM to their parts.
Most repairable iPhone that you have to spend like $70 renting a 70 pound repair kit for only a week, have to buy it if you lose a part, and doesn’t even include the replacement part.
Sure, oil execs deserve to hang for condemning humanity to a climate hellscape, but Apple frankly is up their in their ecological crimes against humanity.
Why is everyone ignoring the fact that the guy is promoting a $50 clear plastic case for the phones? he literally has a cash incentive to make them look weak. If you push any caseless phone between your fingers with full force like that you’re bound to break most of them.
I mean yeah i dont like JerryRig’s ‘durability tests’ but how quickly it broke is concerning. look at other phones he has done, it doesnt crack.i tried pressing the middle on my oneplus glass phone and iphone se both didnt break. there is very clearly a flaw with this new iphone glass back, that pop is not normal.
look at iphone 14 https://youtu.be/GXWcmf2PVxc?si=wEHtL2ZQ6Ds6j32X&t=405
He’s also done the same bend test several other models and the glass does cave into the middle like it did with the 15 Pro Max. Heck he does it to the 15 Pro in the same video and it doesn’t cave in.
The thing that I always ponder with these kinds of situations is how much money is made by having a design flaw that is replaceable and thus a money-spinner for Apple vs the damage it’s going to do to their brand image by having their premium line of phones (and their prominent logo) being associated with cracked glass.
I mean, I really don’t give a damn but the people who do buy these phones generally buy them due to brand prestige. This is real LSC Tesla-style panel gap problems; the fanbois will fawn over the devices when the rest of the world will be scoffing and shaking their heads at them.
