Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "Rod Speed" Newsgroups: misc.phone.mobile.iphone,comp.mobile.android Subject: Re: iPhone upgrade timing/strategy Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2018 10:21:25 +1000 Lines: 44 Message-ID: References: <300820181501393149%nospam@nospam.invalid> <300820181906063187%nospam@nospam.invalid> <310820181549477405%nospam@nospam.invalid> <310820181649413099%nospam@nospam.invalid> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net EDWE24sGJx3LPe9P/gNUZg+K6O54iOmReeAcFJHP2fyU8REmI= Cancel-Lock: sha1:fOO+3TpFvP089rwoFj+LooXZoxQ= In-Reply-To: <310820181649413099%nospam@nospam.invalid> X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Importance: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Windows Live Mail 14.0.8117.416 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V14.0.8117.416 Xref: csiph.com misc.phone.mobile.iphone:113299 comp.mobile.android:55378 nospam wrote > Rod Speed wrote >>>> What I don't get is this emphasis on thinness. How many people >>>> base their buying decision on a difference of a a few mm? >>> a lot. >> Bullshit. And I bet if you gave them a choice of a very thin >> phone and a thicker one that only had to be charged once >> a week, most would choose the thicker phone. > you'd lose. We'll see... > phones get thinner and sales go up. Sales have in fact plateaued for other reasons. > as for run time, it only needs to last a day in > normal use because people charge it overnight. Plenty don't. > lasting two days gives a safety cushion > should they happen to have a busy day. > not being near power to recharge for > a week is an extremely unlikely event, Irrelevant to how convenient that would be. > so much so that few people, if any, will want to carry the > extra weight and size of a larger battery just in case. they > can always carry a usb battery and charge overnight > from that, if they're really away from mains power. Irrelevant to how much more convenient it would be if you only had to charge it weekly. And thinness gains you nothing. In fact the phone has to be made stronger so it doesn't bend. Its just another stupid fad/fashion thing.