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Apple reportedly has plans for a thinner iPhone, MacBook Pro and Apple Watch

www.engadget.com Apple reportedly has plans for a thinner iPhone, MacBook Pro and Apple Watch

Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reports that Apple is planning to release a slew of slimmed-down products, including a thinner MacBook Pro, Apple Watch and iPhone. It follows earlier reports of a slimmer iPhone coming with the iPhone 17 in 2025.

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Why? Phones have been thin enough for a long time that you have to put them in a case just to get a good grip.
- I want an iPhone with a larger battery so it doesn’t have the stupid camera bulge.
  
  Longer life and doesn’t rock when I text on a surface.
  
  And I can repair when it breaks.
  
  doesn’t rock when I text on a surface.
  
  I mean, I agree with you on the battery life being desirable, but purely in terms of addressing the rocking, does putting it in a rigid case resolve that?
  
  seriously
- Actually, they've been getting thicker every year since the 6, believe it or not.
  
  I’d be happier if they push for lighter devices personally. Glass feels nice, but their Pro models can be obnoxiously heavy.
  
  Exactly. I’m still on my 11pro for this reason, already had to replace the battery. I got the 15 as a work phone, it feels very large in comparison, I’m not a fan.
- Because we need to keep innovating?
This thin obsession really needs to stop.
- I had the bending iphone. Had it replaced twice under warranty. Never again.
  
  I had the bending iPhone. Used it for five years, never bent. At the time, I really wished it was slightly thinner lmao
- iPhones have been getting thicker year over year since the 11. The 15 is the largest jump in thickness over that period, too. It’s actually pretty reasonable that Apple would seek to return to at least the last prior model’s form factor.
  
  Good. They should continue getting thicker.
Enough with the goddamn thinness soon that shit is gonna snap if you breathe on it
- iPhone 6: First foldable smartphone
- It already has, years ago
I want more functionality and better battery life. And guess what, thinner doesn’t help with any of those.
- Make the phone half as thick, then double the battery and fill the rest with thermals.
  
  Apple: Yes, yes, this innovation constitutes a $600 price increase.
I feel like we're just going backwards, we stopped caring about tech getting thin enough to act like a blade like a decade ago.

Why are we doing this again?
- Breaks easier, better for the company
They scored big with the M-series macbook being a little thicker and having an hdmi port, and now they want to go back?
- Honestly… in my opinion hdmi needs to die. DisplayPort is superior in every way, especially when driving from thunderbolt/usb4. We are so close to one port for everything, even if we have to continue dongle hell for a while longer.
  
  There's no way that the home entertainment world is gonna drop HDMI.
  
  It may be technically-inferior, but HDMI support means that your computer can talk to home entertainment displays like televisions and home entertainment projectors, not just computer displays.
So gimmicky
I'm not going to buy any of those, and I don't use a smartwatch at all, but I'd rather have a thicker laptop and phone with the extra space expended on a larger battery.
any phone thinner than an iPod Touch 4 is unnecessarily thin imo
- The 13” iPad Pro M4 is thinner than the iPod Nano, making it the thinnest device Apple has ever made (except for the camera bump, but we don’t talk about that). It’s wild how thin it is, but it’s significantly lighter than its predecessor and is much nicer to hold.
  
  But it can be that thin because it’s large enough that the battery can be spread out. I wouldn’t want a phone that thin.
I'm looking for tha THICCness
Can this trend of thin tech just end already? It’s pointless.
- Yeah, I'd rather have my back panel fingerprint reader back than an even thinner phone, and then there's the pointlessness of making the phone so thin that to have a remotely decent camera they have to add a huge bulge. Just... Make the whole damned thing that thick and use the extra space for, I dunno, more battery maybe?
Wh🥱 cares
You don't say? Next they'll say the plans also include making it faster and attempts to improve battery life.

Must be a slow news day.
I don't want thinner. I want more functionality. Don't expect me to pay 2 grand for a laptop with no external USB or HDMI ports, for which privileges I can pay an additional $100 or so. I'm frustrated enough by the lack of Ethernet jacks on my Lenovo. The last time I had a Mac (work shipped me one), I was even more frustrated by how bad the built in trackpad and keyboard were and the fact that using an external device to replace them came at a premium price.
- Don't expect me to pay 2 grand for a laptop with no external USB or HDMI ports
  
  HDMI is a trash standard and we should move everyone to Displayport at a minimum, or Thunderbolt. But also, all the MacBook Pros have HDMI.
  
  I was even more frustrated by how bad the built in trackpad
  
  Weird. I think Apple's trackpad is head and shoulders better than anyone else's.
I remember when all of my friends would laugh at the iPod Nano, when it released as being super thin, due to all the people accidentally sitting on them or other easy ways in which they broke.

I would prefer it if manufacturers made phones with smaller screens, so I can actually use it with one hand without some janky workaround (like right/left handed modes on Google Keyboard).
another crappy apple invented useless fashion, that will be spread everywhere, as everyone wants to follow the trends. See: curved display, micro SIM then nano SIM, no headphone jack, etc.
This means less battery life (or security margins) and or less powerful cpu.
So next time you drop it it's not only the display breaking?
they will never be as thin as Wiko Highway Pure
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