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by jojobas 1001 days ago
Reviewers are not just "people", they are people desperate to squeeze out as many words as possible praising and nitpicking the product in exactly the ordered proportions.

I refuse to believe anybody at all cares about how light or heavy their phone weighs or how light it "feels".
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enoch2090 1001 days ago
The points that you don't care about is not essentially the points that other people don't care about. If you are strong the weight may not matter, but otherwise there is a significant difference imposed on fingers & wrists. I at least know a few of my friends who care about this more than the fancy cameras & dynamic island.
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the_other 1001 days ago
> I refuse to believe anybody at all cares about how light or heavy their phone weighs or how light it "feels".

My vision’s poor, so I hold everything closer to my face than the average, to get a better look. For items with a lot of text (or other reasons for prolonged near-face use), this can put a small yet noticeable strain on my wrists, elbows and shoulders. You’d think that years of repetitive phone ise would have built up small muscles to compensate, but it hasn’t. I would definitely appreciate a light phone.

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masklinn 1001 days ago
> Reviewers are not just "people", they are people desperate to squeeze out as many words as possible praising and nitpicking the product in exactly the ordered proportions.

Nice IMAX you got there.

> I refuse to believe anybody at all cares about how light or heavy their phone weighs or how light it "feels".

Oh yeah, it’s really unbelievable that people would care about the weight of something they carry and move around a significant fraction of their day and people definitely haven’t been complaining about how heavy the 13P / 14P design is since they were released (https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/pw875n/does_anyone_e..., https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/13-pro-too-big-and-heav...) but hey I’m sure you can just call them weak shills or something.

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jojobas 1001 days ago
>Nice IMAX you got there.

Sorry, what?

10%/19g reduction is about as little as few coins or variation of a t-shirt weight, it's beyond negligible. Drinking an extra glass of water will weigh you down tenfold. What would you say about moment of inertia? That people twist around with phones all day?

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AdamN 1001 days ago
?? that's the exact reason I didn't buy an iPhone 13 Pro. A heavy phone is really annoying and paying more for it is even worse.
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