AlexisFR,
@AlexisFR@jlai.lu avatar

It didn’t.

CeruleanRuin,

This is a really great illustration of how mere extrapolation can lead you to shitty conclusions.

hansl,
shotgun_crab,

Perfection.

The_Picard_Maneuver,
@The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website avatar

There’s always an xkcd!

notatoad,

I’m not gonna do the math myself, but in terms of total screen size it’s probably pretty close to accurate.

Ghostalmedia,
@Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world avatar

The iPhone Pro Max is a big boy

jaybone,

I can fit 24 rows of apps ON MY DICK!

Synthead,

This is basically the slippery slope fallacy in a picture.

Hasuris,

Sony Xperia

Exusia,
@Exusia@lemmy.world avatar

I like how at the time we hadn’t even considered the entire slab would be a screen, like the memes still have the home button at the bottom. I get that it’s a meme but still.

We also probably assumed the headphone jack would never go away either so.

CanadaPlus,

It was my prediction. We’ve even got ones with a screen that wraps onto the side. A screen on the back side hasn’t happened yet, though.

Thorry84,

arstechnica.com/…/xiaomis-crazy-new-2800-phone-ha…

But it’s just dumb, so it hasn’t caught on.

I hate phones with glass backsides, I’ve replaced the back of my S20 a dozen times before switching to a phone with a plastic back. Yes it looks nice (if you use it without a cover), but it breaks so easily. It’s always super thin glass, not the thick gorilla glass like the front. If you look at it wrong it cracks.

CanadaPlus,

I mean it is kind of dumb, especially if it’s as delicate as the front. I was young and I didn’t really understand the manufacturing realities. I’m guessing phones will keep looking the same for the next bit, with a slim chance Apple’s goggle thing will actually catch on a bit.

Fogle,

Pixel 5 had a metal back coated with some resin thing. Best phone design in history.

ChaoticNeutralCzech,
@ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de avatar

…Except the battery replacement is crazy difficult.

FlexibleToast,

Yeah we have. We even had a phone that had an e-paper display on one side for low power usage. Almost all the folding phones have a screen that is on the back when unfolded.

Poob,

You could argue that folding phones have screens on the back, just not the full thing, and not always the back

ada,
@ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

My zFold would like a word

Bdaman,
The_Picard_Maneuver,
@The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website avatar

Incredible. We haven’t changed much, have we?

casmael,

So civilised

aeronmelon,

The 10 didn’t get that far, but the current biggest phone is not much smaller. Just wider instead of taller.

i.ytimg.com/vi/Ucl5w-bztkk/maxresdefault.jpg

They just keep getting bigger…

img1.mydrivers.com/…/f2c6001212474dc6a2910a195aa1…

makyo,

I love my mini so much

Binthinkin,

This is exactly what I would do if I was stealing data legally from my users. Ignore it (except what I can make a quick buck on) and keep shoving asinine bs to them for no reward other than my fiscal bonuses.

Apple, fuck life different.

Kyrgizion,

Make it foldable and it’s pretty much exactly what happened.

casmael,

Who remembers the lg chocolate or whatever it was called with like a 25:1 aspect ratio or whatever lol

FUCKRedditMods,

21:9 haha

sebinspace,

Good god can you imagine 25:1? Fucken pencil-shaped display

casmael,

Okay how about this: Apple Pencil but it’s got a display on the side bang I just made Tim Apple another 6 billion dollars 💵

sebinspace,

I remember the LG Wing having an aspect ratio of fuck:you

Someone brought one into my shop to be fixed. Sorry, bud, no. Not touching that.

jeena,
@jeena@jemmy.jeena.net avatar

Cute, they thought that it would only grow in one dimension while in reality it did in two.

LordOfTheChia,
BolexForSoup,
@BolexForSoup@kbin.social avatar

How have I never seen this lol

LordOfTheChia,

It is a 13 year old meme!

Klear,

…but it checks out, sir!

Num10ck,

if you include the Vision Pro then the viewport has gotten even bigger than this

samus12345,
@samus12345@lemmy.world avatar

They couldn’t predict that he wouldn’t be around any more by 2012.

Hoomod,

I guess people thought “the genius Steve Jobs” wouldn’t go a homeopathic route to treat his actually treatable pancreatic cancer

It’s so incredibly rare to have a treatable version of pancreatic cancer, normally it’s a guaranteed death sentence.

Also he got a liver transplant because having access to a private plane meant he could be on all the lists. Only bought him like another year though.

CeruleanRuin,

2016: iFloor
2018: iPiazza
2020: iField
2022: iPrairie
2024: iVeldt

Ilovethebomb,

The Iboard is just a touchscreen Mac.

CeruleanRuin,

But it also shrank in a third.

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