I choose to see that as (potentially) “glass half full”.
If that gimmick breaks people’s perception of “thin = premium” or whatever logic, then maybe there’s a chance people will accept a few extra mm on their devices and flip-out keyboards could make a comeback. All the ones I can find now are specialty phones and have their own drawbacks.
I have heard that we have Steve Jobs to blame for that. They pressured screen manufacturers to make thinner and thinner screens because they marketed thinness as quality and since making a machine that makes screens is a huge investment the rest of the market was stuck with those thin screens as well.
We could easily have phone screens that are 3mm thicker that you can drop all day without it ever cracking. But no. Marketing ruined everything again.
I choose to see that as (potentially) “glass half full”.
If that gimmick breaks people’s perception of “thin = premium” or whatever logic, then maybe there’s a chance people will accept a few extra mm on their devices and flip-out keyboards could make a comeback. All the ones I can find now are specialty phones and have their own drawbacks.
I have heard that we have Steve Jobs to blame for that. They pressured screen manufacturers to make thinner and thinner screens because they marketed thinness as quality and since making a machine that makes screens is a huge investment the rest of the market was stuck with those thin screens as well.
We could easily have phone screens that are 3mm thicker that you can drop all day without it ever cracking. But no. Marketing ruined everything again.