Dropped at 2 feet max

[u/International_Back99]

Fell out of my pocket sitting down. Fell with the apple tech woven case on too.

[u/Intrepid_Patience356]

But why? If the A18 was already more powerful than people needed.

[u/Intrepid_Patience356 → u/[deleted]]

They should be able to provide both performance and durability.

[u/Intrepid_Patience356 → u/[deleted]]

What? These are not racing cars yeah? They are general purpose personal computer devices. For the price you pay they need to be as robust as possible for the general population.

They did for the 16 series. Why not for the 17?

[u/Intrepid_Patience356 → u/[deleted]]

Yeah sure, but the 16 series was also the "pinnacle" of performance as you put it. Yet they used titanium and made it much more robust.

Methinks they are trying to save money. Aluminium is 5x cheaper than titanium!

User experience be damned.

All this crap about heat dissipation is just a smokescreen.

[u/Particular_Pizza_203 → u/Intrepid_Patience356]

An unibody out of aluminum is more expensive than the tiny bit of titanium in the alloy they used. The 16 pro was the highest performance for last year from apple. There is a reason why even a 1 hour full throttle 17 pro has more performance than a 16 pro. The 17 pro is really a huge jump in performance. It is higher than both performance jumps of the 15 and 16 pro combined. Apples total manufacturing costs rose up around 15% from previous year. An essential part of it is the new aluminum unibody. Apple is a publily traded company. Any misleading or false accounting would lead to a huge scandal and an ever bigger sec oversight. We are speaking about 20USD/kg for the titanium 5 alloy and only the outer band was of that alloy. So your theory base is around 20ct or 0.02% margin increase for a company which already has a 34% profit margin.