If you can figure out a way to cram all of the shit in a 15 Pro Max into a form factor the size of an iPhone 4 not only will Apple suck your dick in the form of a well-earned half million dollar salary but you'll likely get a Nobel Prize for breakthroughs in quantum computing and also making atoms smaller.
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verysoft@kbin.social 11 months agoThat will be a side effect of them locking abitrary features behind the bigger and thus more expensive models, if there was feature parity smaller phones would probably still be the norm.
hiddengoat@kbin.social 11 months ago
verysoft@kbin.social 11 months ago
Is this bait?
Jrockwar@feddit.uk 11 months ago
No, I agree with his point. Features do take space. Maybe we can make space for a headphone jack (🙄), but consumers demand more cameras, with a larger sensor, faster and more power hungry processors, bigger batteries. With any space limitation (even the Pro Max comes with a space limitation because it can’t become an iPad…) there are feature tradeoffs, and obviously a smaller phone will fit fewer cameras, less cooling, a smaller battery, etc.
verysoft@kbin.social 11 months ago
Of course, but hardly any super important ones. The S23 for example is smaller than the iPhone 15, was the same price on release (came out Feb 2023) and has features beating the iPhone 15 Pro Max, a much bigger and more recent device. Most features/hardware on the bigger phones exist in smaller phones, most of the extra space on larger phones is usually just taken up by a larger battery anyway. They can go watch some teardowns, look into all the software locked features like with the recent Pixel 8 phones, the only reason? To upsell to the more expensive models.
But yes, obviously some features are a lot harder to fit in a smaller space, but I thought that was the obvious asterisk to my comment. Perhaps they should spend some R&D on figuring that out though, rather than rehashing the same devices year after year which is just leading to e-waste.
hiddengoat@kbin.social 11 months ago
Are you that dense?
It's a very realistic example of what you would have to do to cram all of the shit from a large phone into a small phone. The features that are cut aren't fucking "arbitrary" unless you want to classify every feature difference as "abitrary" thereby making your definition of arbitrary meaningless.
verysoft@kbin.social 11 months ago
So yes, it was bait.
ayyndrew@lemm.ee 11 months ago
There are some features that just can’t be equal between a bigger phone and a smaller one (or would require gimping the bigger phone like a bigger screen (obviously), bigger battery and more size for larger camera sensors
nexusband@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Yeah, I only got the Pixel 6 Pro because of the zoom lense…i would not have chosen it otherwise. It’s too big…
6daemonbag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
Me for the pixel 8 pro. I’d rather the regular pixel 8 but if I’m going to keep this thing for 7 years (which I will; typing from a pixel 2) then I want it to be as feature rich as possible. Not looking forward to how big it’s going to be when it finally gets delivered
nexusband@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Good lucky keeping it for so long… I’m having lots of little issues with my 6 Pro…