Even if you haven't, searching up dimensions on the current foldables takes all of 15 seconds.
It should be obvious to anyone who cares about phone hardware even a little that older foldables won't be the end-all of how thin the packaging is ever going to get.
The assumption that even future foldables will feel like holding two typical 7-8mm phones together is just an obivous case of no research and stereotypical hn complaining.
I don’t know why you’re so uncharitable toward someone who holds a different opinion than you. The idea that someone needs to research device dimensions in order to share their personal experience with foldables is a bit much. Instead of accusing them of complaining for the “dopamine hit”, you could have said “hey, your experience is out of date”.
That’s what jayd16 did, and then you rolled in with a complaint about people who complain, which is pretty rich.
Maybe because on hacker news, you expect slightly higher quality comments. Or at least a more forward-thinking opinion on consumer hardware.
Holding a different opinion is great, but dismissing on a modern cutting edge form-factor, one that has lots of love (as you can see even just in this thread), one that has painfully obvious benefits for reading, all because of "thickness" is daft considering the current crop of foldable.
Price would make 100% sense. But thickness? C'mon.
Some people genuinely go online just to complain. If he'd made a reasonable argument, I'd happily respond charitably.
Some folks just have to complain for the sake of complaining, must give them a little dopamine hit or something.