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Smartphone Hardware

The physical engineering of handsets: chassis and materials, displays, cooling, batteries and the annual product cycles that ship them.

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Apple charges $100 more for an iPhone 18 Pro with last year's exact measurements

Apple kept the iPhone 18 Pro Max the same height, width and depth as last year's model and added 16 grams, so the extra $100 goes on a 2nm chip and a moving six-blade iris rather than anything you can see.

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Builder
Builder 34%
Operator
Operator 37%
Investor
Investor 29%

Reality

Evidence58
Adoption22
Hype gap+32
Incentives68
Confidence64