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Apple Announces iPhone Air With Ultra-Thin Design (www.macrumors.com)
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[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 19 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

Ultra-Thin

but why

[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

They ran out of ideas when Steve Jobs died of ligma

[–] treyf711@eviltoast.org 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Who’s Steve Jobs?

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Who is ligmar?

[–] B0rax@feddit.org 6 points 2 weeks ago

Because it looks impressive

[–] Xatolos@reddthat.com 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 weeks ago

Samsung did it because it leaked Apple was always doing this.

It’s likely a test case for their upcoming foldable. If they make it this thin they can Cana decent idea of some of the failure modes of the foldable that they may not have predicted.

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

So you can roll it. Probably.

[–] MML@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago

You can actually feel the radiation!