It seems to me like this ‘cult of thinness’ only ever existed in tech media anyway. You would see it all across reviews, using ‘tank’, ‘bulky’ etc to describe phones more than 8mm thick and praising devices as they got thinner and bendier.
I actually have always much preferred devices that have a bit of heft, though I’m sure the pendulum will swing again, Apple will introduce a Macbook that you can fold into origami with 15 minutes of screen-on time, the tech press will be all on board with ‘thinner and lighter’ once again and articles like this one will become passé.
It seems to me like this ‘cult of thinness’ only ever existed in tech media anyway. You would see it all across reviews, using ‘tank’, ‘bulky’ etc to describe phones more than 8mm thick and praising devices as they got thinner and bendier.
I actually have always much preferred devices that have a bit of heft, though I’m sure the pendulum will swing again, Apple will introduce a Macbook that you can fold into origami with 15 minutes of screen-on time, the tech press will be all on board with ‘thinner and lighter’ once again and articles like this one will become passé.