[faster_harder]

It reminds me of the glass vs plastic phone backside arguments. Glass is more fragile than plastic and will not absorb shocks. It is also heavier and harder to replace (most plastic backsides can be removed with a guitar pick).

But glass is considered premium.

[ChainOfFools]

I was astonished at the amount of ink, or pixels wasted by this ridiculous and completely manufactured distinction on the part of inept tech "journalists" and bloggers who had to find something non-technical to identify a pecking order among phones in order to attract readership who didn't understand the more subtle distinctions between features that affect actual usage of the phone.

The only other ridiculous argument that had an even worse effect on the net usability of phones, as well as the indistinguishable limited variety that we have today, is the ridiculous obsession with thinness. And then everyone puts a case on it anyway.

Thin, thin, thin, and a glass back on top of that. I'm not usually sympathetic to conspiracies but it sure seems like the interests of phone manufacturers ( especially one in particular) who want to sell a new throaway device every year were suspiciously well served by both of these absurd abitrary obsessions of the tech press.

[LoganDark]

I hate thin and light so, so much.

People say "vote with your feet" and "just don't buy the stuff you don't like", but you can't exactly buy nothing when there are no options you like, because what if you need a laptop anyway? So you end up having to buy something "thin and light" which is a signal to the OEM that people want more thin and light even if all they wanted was a laptop.

[ChainOfFools]

Unfortunately the phrase vote with your feet is too often misapplied either by the hopelessly idealistic at one end, or by the toxically cynical at the other.

particularly those who are well aware that you have two feet to work with while their side has paid influence wrangling a stampede of cattle in the other directiin.

[LoganDark]

I mean, some otherkin have (/identify as having) four paws. But that's still not enough to do anything lol

[pmontra]

I personally like light phones and thin or small are two ways to make them light. I prefer small to thin if I have a choice, but the sub 6" Android phones can be counted on the fingers of a hand nowadays (with fingers to spare) so I can't be too picky. 200 g seems to be the new normal. Ugh!