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Please stop following in Apple's footsteps (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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https://gizmodo.com/google-s-pixel-8-sim-slot-esim-only-iphone-1850759671

What happened to daring to be different? What happened to having options? What happened to creativity?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Sorry what? It creates a door, which needs to be sealed for IP rating, which needs to be located in physical relation to the edge of the phone body, needs power and data vias routed to/from which dictates the location of the radio, antennae etc. etc. etc.

It's absolutely impactful to the electronics design no matter the screen size, you just can't see all the decisions and compromises associated with it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I didn't think about the amount of tiny little parts it needs around it. But what I meant by that is that once a phone gets wasted, all the micro-tiny cables and plastic SIM door and the SIM's collective weight and volume are quite minuscule, compared to the phone's weight and volume. It's an improvement, for a fact. But is it really worth gutting that phone of the SIM slot for such a tiny improvement?