• JordanfireStar@lemmy.world
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    They’re pushing AI so hard but most people just see it as a gimmicky thing. The only people who care are the investors.

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    Give me a phone that’s 1.5 cm thick (before the camera bump) and lasts two days and I’ll buy fucking 10 of them.

    JUST STOP. MAKING. THEM. THINNER.

    • fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      They have. The iphone 6 was I think the thinnest iphone at 6.9mm thick. The X was 7.7mm, and the 15 is 7.8mm thick. And at least for my use I do get 2 days of battery life. Even with the 80% charge cap.

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      Overall phones have been getting chunkier, larger too. I dislike the size, but like the added battery life from the thickness is nice. My pixel 8 is perfect in both regards for me :)
      Edit: just saw the sub. Don’t really know a lot about apple phones specifically.

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      Like you know, you can setup a file share to back up files. You can back up your phone and get a new one easily. If you lost a phone you can bring it back. Your files organized the way you want and not some things here and done things there like the apps want.

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    Fuck Siri with ChatGPT. I just want third party app notifications to actually play a sound and vibrate on my watch again. I really hope the next iOS update will fix that. I’m not the only one with this issue currently.

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    How about making a phone that’s a whole millimeter thicker just to make the glass thick and strong enough that it won’t break if you drop it?

    Great idea! Unless of course the replacement of parts and broken phones is a core part of the business model.

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      Rubbish. If my phone isn’t so thin that it can double as a knife, it’s not worth buying.

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      Even if it were thicker I’d still slap on a sacrificial glass screen protector atop it. I’ve dropped my phone only a handful of times, and so far have only ever broken the protector.

      Just slap a shield on it, there’s your added thickness and better drop resistance all in one!

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      There are a few ruggedized phones out there. I bought some cheap Oukitel phones to use as an order pad in restaurant I used to run, because I was fed up with two waitresses dropping and breaking pads. When I sold the business, I kept one. I use it mainly in my boat, as GPS, plotter, speedometer, weather…

      The thing drops, gets wet, handled without care.

      These phones exist. They are not top performance dogs, but can be quite decent. Why arent they in the front line? Because demand

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    “The only thing we bothered changing in the new model is we added a robot that hoovers even more of your data and then lies to you confidently!”

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      If you don’t think this counts as AI, can you give us an example of some function or behavior that you would consider AI?

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        Reasoning, sentience, and the ability, over time, to improve. There’s more, but that’s the top three.

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      No. Strictly and technically speaking, LLMs absolutely fall under the category of AI. You’re thinking of AGI, which is a subset of AI, and which LLMs will be a necessary but insufficient component of.

      I’m an AI Engineer; I’ve taken to, in my circles, calling AI “Algorithmic Intelligence” rather than “Artificial Intelligence.” It’s far more fitting term for what is happening. But until the Yanns and Ngs and Hintons of the field start calling it that, we’re stuck with it.

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    yeah but you can’t set inflate your stock value based on hype about battery life.

    people forget that these features aren’t for users. it’s for idiots who invest in ridiculous shit hoping it to be the next big thing.

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    Smartphone buyers care more about that thing that they’ve been begging for, for years? You don’t say… And mobile phone manufacturers are again and still going to ignore what people actually want in favor of expensive and non functional vaporware, like they always do?

    You don’t say!