Re: iPhone 17 Air completely port-free

badgolferman <REMOVETHISbadgolferman@gmail.com> wrote:

Marion <marion@facts.com> wrote:

*Apple considered making the rumored iPhone 17 Air completely port-free,
according to report*
<https://www.engadget.com/mobile/smartphones/apple-considered-making-the-rumored-iphone-17-air-completely-port-free-according-to-report-165334942.html>
 
Maybe it's Apple's way to give the finger to the EU for forcing Apple,
for the first time in its history, of providing what the customer wants.
 
It's just a rumor at this point, but given Apple's sordid history of
putting the crappiest RAM, the worst batteries, the lack of industry
standard hardware (such as the extremely handy portable memory slots and
the industry standard aux jack and the proper charger in the box, etc.), it
wouldn't surprise me. <https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GmIuzI8bcAI7Wa3?format=jpg>
 
Apple's basic strategy is to remove functionality so that the consumer
feels so much pain that they strive to purchase back the removed items.
 
It works. Herd animal iPhone owners line up outside the Apple store
because they can't wait to ditch their old iPhones for the new ones!

 
Rather than considering something gimmicky like that, I wish Apple would
consider redesigning the horrendous lump of the camera lenses sticking out
of the body so much. At the very least spread them across the back
symmetrically so the phone doesn’t wobble side to side when set down.
Surely that’s something simple to do.

Spreading the lenses would cause parallax.

However, the bump is being made bigger and looks fugly
https://www.reddit.com/r/iphone/s/LVtSV2dxlX