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I dont know whats apple obsessions with thinness, instead they should focus on usability and battery life.

by tejinderss 1y ago

kridsdale1 1y ago
They did that too, in the other products. Longest battery ever.
- gizajob 1y ago
  I’d really love an inch-thick iPhone Dad which has a battery that lasts for days on end. Even a week.
  - JumpCrisscross 1y ago
    > I’d really love an inch-thick iPhone Dad which has a battery that lasts for days on end. Even a week. You're describing a case with a battery pack.
  - deleted 1y ago
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  - anamexis 1y ago
    They make some pretty beefy battery cases.
- nicce 1y ago
  They could make it thicker and give longer battery?
  - rafaeltorres 1y ago
    That would be the iPhone Pro
deanebarker 1y ago
I've been a PC guy my whole live, and was forced onto a MacBook Pro this year for work. The battery life is insane. The idea of charging my laptop has become this weird ritual now, only known of in lore and legend, that I partake of only when there is a blood moon.
- rplnt 1y ago
  Now if you look at the smart watches, they are by far the worst on the market.
- amluto 1y ago
  The battery life while in use is amazing. The battery life while closed and apparently asleep is abysmal and probably the worst of any laptop I’ve used in the last 20 years. I think the problem is that Safari allows tabs to ask to be periodically woken while the laptop is asleep, and there is no obvious way to turn this off. And it will keep doing this until the battery is so low that the laptop needs to hibernate.
  - ksec 1y ago
    Safari on Desktop is just appalling, every year you wish there are some improvements and it is the same. webkit gets some update in terms of web features and bug fix. Safari itself doesn't seems to want to improve. Even Orion using same webkit engine is better.
  - mmh0000 1y ago
    See this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44745897 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44745897 TL;DR: Make sure Power Nap is turned ON. It allows macOS to consolidate wakeup requests into a bulk queue. So the thing isn't turning on all the time.
    - amluto 1y ago
      I read that. It contains no actual useful or authoritative explanation. It references Apple docs that sort of say that it's not supported on Apple Silicon. The man page says: > powernap - enable/disable Power Nap on supported machines (value = 0/1) Thanks, Apple.
JumpCrisscross 1y ago
> dont know whats apple obsessions with thinness It forces them to the forefront of miniaturisation and efficiency. It's also something they're unusually good at, which creates differentiation.
atommclain 1y ago
I don’t see it; to my mind the last great Apple thin product was the 12” MacBook from 2015.
apparent 1y ago
I assume they're getting ready for a folding iPhone, so the thinness tech is being developed largely for that. They're releasing this thin iPhone to test the market and to make use of it in the meantime.
hulitu 1y ago
> they should focus on usability usability is so '00. Nowadays the focus is on ads.

I dont know whats apple obsessions with thinness, instead they should focus on usability and battery life.

kridsdale1 1y ago

They did that too, in the other products. Longest battery ever.

gizajob 1y ago
I’d really love an inch-thick iPhone Dad which has a battery that lasts for days on end. Even a week.
- JumpCrisscross 1y ago
  > I’d really love an inch-thick iPhone Dad which has a battery that lasts for days on end. Even a week. You're describing a case with a battery pack.
- deleted 1y ago
  [deleted]
- anamexis 1y ago
  They make some pretty beefy battery cases.
nicce 1y ago
They could make it thicker and give longer battery?
- rafaeltorres 1y ago
  That would be the iPhone Pro

deanebarker 1y ago

I've been a PC guy my whole live, and was forced onto a MacBook Pro this year for work. The battery life is insane. The idea of charging my laptop has become this weird ritual now, only known of in lore and legend, that I partake of only when there is a blood moon.

rplnt 1y ago
Now if you look at the smart watches, they are by far the worst on the market.
amluto 1y ago
The battery life while in use is amazing. The battery life while closed and apparently asleep is abysmal and probably the worst of any laptop I’ve used in the last 20 years. I think the problem is that Safari allows tabs to ask to be periodically woken while the laptop is asleep, and there is no obvious way to turn this off. And it will keep doing this until the battery is so low that the laptop needs to hibernate.
- ksec 1y ago
  Safari on Desktop is just appalling, every year you wish there are some improvements and it is the same. webkit gets some update in terms of web features and bug fix. Safari itself doesn't seems to want to improve. Even Orion using same webkit engine is better.
- mmh0000 1y ago
  See this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44745897 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44745897 TL;DR: Make sure Power Nap is turned ON. It allows macOS to consolidate wakeup requests into a bulk queue. So the thing isn't turning on all the time.
  - amluto 1y ago
    I read that. It contains no actual useful or authoritative explanation. It references Apple docs that sort of say that it's not supported on Apple Silicon. The man page says: > powernap - enable/disable Power Nap on supported machines (value = 0/1) Thanks, Apple.

JumpCrisscross 1y ago

> dont know whats apple obsessions with thinness It forces them to the forefront of miniaturisation and efficiency. It's also something they're unusually good at, which creates differentiation.

atommclain 1y ago

I don’t see it; to my mind the last great Apple thin product was the 12” MacBook from 2015.

apparent 1y ago

I assume they're getting ready for a folding iPhone, so the thinness tech is being developed largely for that. They're releasing this thin iPhone to test the market and to make use of it in the meantime.

hulitu 1y ago

> they should focus on usability usability is so '00. Nowadays the focus is on ads.