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Wow, it has really slimmed down! (thelemmy.club)
submitted 10 months ago by to c/facepalm@lemmy.world
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[–] 43 points 10 months ago (2 children)

It's not really astonishing, that's Apple's marketing speaking. Phones have been thinner than this and the tech that Apple are using now already exists in many phones. Apple are great at selling something as new and innovative, their marketing is what is astonishing.

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  • [–] 11 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Please name phones that are identical to this one. If just a single measurement is off, spoiler: I'm right!

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  • [–] 0 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    If you follow the phone market, then there's lots of phones that have new technologies before Apple. That's always been the case.

    If you want a thin flagship example that you couldn't find yourself, then the Galaxy S25 Edge, is 5.8mm, with a smaller camera bump, better main camera, plus an ultrawide, is lighter, has more SIM support, higher resolution and brighter display, USB 3, bigger battery and faster charging.

    The iPhone Air is not astonishing at all.

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    The vivo X5Max was 4.8 mm, the Moto Z was 5.19mm thick, also bonus, the S25 Edge is actually 0.7mm thinner than the iPhone Air if you measure at the camera. But why are you being dense? Nobody is arguing the thinness, but that it's not an astonishing engineering feat.

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  • [–] -2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 child)

    Yeah this marketing is what makes the iphone 17 probably one of the best phones available atm IMO:

    https://security.apple.com/blog/memory-integrity-enforcement/

    This probably wipes out 90% of all classes of vulnerabilities that can be exploited on a device. Its crazy engineering. No other phones on earth have this protection.

    Android phones have something called MTE that is a basic version of this, but due to performance issues, isnt really feasible to have enabled all the time unlike MIE.

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    This is an insane fucking blog post considering Apple has been far more vulnerable to "mercenary exploits" than flagship Android devices. Regardless of the actual feature they are describing, the several paragraphs of discussion on this topic frankly reads as unhinged.

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