Steel is too heavy. As they pointed out aluminum is much better at dissipating heat than titanium. Shooting video has always heated phones up. A lot of the video features were aimed directly at actual professional video work so I’m not surprised if preventing throttling was a key goal. Game performance will come along for the ride as well.

They also said that this was the first unibody iPhone. Can titanium be made the same way? The unibody MacBooks are really nice though I’m not sure if the same rigidity issues are at play in such small devices.

Well too bad for them making 17 pro as heavy as 13 pro steel.

Too hot? Well bu-hoo, throttle it. Or, I dunno, don’t run glass shaders.

I drop my iphone more often than I need it to compute pi.

Aluminium deforms on drop too easily. Thanks, Ive had enough of iPhones 6 and alike to willingly come back.

> at actual professional video

On a phone? You must be kidding. Arri, red, blackmagic, sony.