Hacker News Reader

Comment by chiph | Hacker News Reader

I'd be totally OK with Apple producing a slightly thicker phone that is 1) Easier to hold 2) Doesn't bend in your pocket 3) Has a headphone jack 4) Has more room inside for a larger battery 5) Has more room inside for a SD reader

View on HN

You just described an iPhone knockoff. Apple will never add SD cards, that's only for geeks like me and you.

A lot of people like SD cards because you can just pull them out of the phone, stick them into a PC or Smart TV or whatever, and see your vacation photos on a big screen. And without the hassle of going through some cloud provider.

(As another anecdote, I once tried to get a photo from an iPhone onto a Linux PC without having to sign up for some cloud account first. After about an hour of fiddling, I ended up e-mailing the image to myself.)

I agree with you, I like SD cards myself, but not something my parents will mess around with - it's much easier to put those pictures and videos (and shared ones from thousands of miles away) on their cloud provider's storage mechanism and have a seamless experience. And Linux boxes aren't what 99% of consumers use. What you and I tinker with is different than what the vast majority of consumers will experience. You can just plug in an iPhone on a PC and Windows Photos will just import your pictures without a second thought.

>> " a slightly thicker phone that is 1) Easier to hold"

This isn't necessarily true. You might be able to get a better grip on a bigger phone - if your hands are large enough. Personally these large screened phones (and I have the smaller of the two iPhone models) are too large for me. If I put a case on it actually makes it more difficult and impossible to use one handed. If they were to make it slightly thinner (I don't know how possible it is at this stage) it would be easier for me to hold as the difference between case/no case, despite being only a few millimetres is actually pretty significant.

Consider the SE. On the inside, it's a 6+; on the outside, it's a 5s. I'm finding it very comfortable, and perhaps you might as well.

Oh, and it has a headphone jack, too.

I have been considering it actually. I'm still not 100% decided though. I'm going to see if they continue to keep it updated and if they do I might switch when my contract runs out.

Yeah, the X Y dimensions of the phones are crazy. I'm thinking the only reasons they're making the phones thinner is 1) Engineering ego, and 2) so they don't print as bad when wearing skinny-fit jeans.

Currently, the battery is the biggest and maybe the only issue most users have. And it's easily solvable(redmi 3 with 4100mah, new lenovo with 5100mah).

But it was nice for manufacturers to toghether maintain this artificial problem.

Unfortunately, that is not what the majority of users want, because otherwise Apple would have made it like that.

Say "Think different", but give everybody the same product, that is how things work at Apple.

Someone will probably build shells and protectors with 3.5mm jack...

Which would make the phone either way taller or way fatter

Reply on news.ycombinator.com