Apple’s devices are about to get thinner again, but at what cost?
This sounds fine, but thin devices come with significant downsides, like less repairability and worse battery life.
I also agree that we’ve probably achieved a reasonable level of thinness for phones."
The iPad Pro is thinner than any of these.Cartoons Plural / Unsplash
Thin Isn’t In
For years, Apple has been making its devices chunkier.
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Now, apparently, Apple is set onreversing these improvements.
We no longer keep a phone in our pockets until it rings with a call.
We can avoid this by replacing our batteries, not our phones.Getty
We buy bigger and bigger phones, not smaller and smaller ones.
None of your friends is complaining that their MacBook or iPhone is too thick.
Repair
When you struggle to squeeze every component into a gadget, there are compromises.
The newest iPad Pro, for example,actually improves the ease of battery replacementbut still falls short.
so that get to the pull-tabs of these batteries, you oughta remove other components.
This is not necessary in a design that isless compromised by a lack of space.
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And repairability is super important for your pocket and for our world.
Are skinny phones and laptops kind of cool?
