Pro or Air?
The answer for me is simple. It will be a pro. I want the largest screen, the fastest performance, and highest capacity and the longest battery life.
For most, the appeal of a slim, light weight phone is great. I love how the Air looks. It is beautiful. The pro, uncased, appears as a dystopian robot without legs. It is functionally ugly. I was deciding what colour to get, and then realised, I won't be getting a transparent case, so it does not really matter.
The reason that the choice is so easy, for me, is that a phone has become just a tool and no longer on the track of evolution that brings humanity out of a primordial quagmire. The impact driver is an awesome invention. So is the iPhone. AI, on device LLMs, ML photos, are the lights and magnetic bit holders that make driving a screw just that little bit easier. The iPhone, for developers and those who use their phone for work, just needs to deliver the best performance possible. This is why Apple launches are now consistently mediocre and uninspiring. I am just awaiting to see if the highest specs are justification enough for the outlay.
What I find more deeply concerning about present day Apple, and the most detrimental potentiator, is that is purposely seems to hold back engineering effort for utterly ambiguous reasons. The new iPhone still has a notch, and now has a bigger bump. If you are making a slim iPhone, for people who want a slim, why is a bulge needed when you could just make the whole thing uniformly a little bit thicker. And, surely, a tiny prism would be able to facilitate designing out of the notch. Engineers are extraordinarily clever. Why are they being held back from solving the problems that we want addressed?
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Your Thoughts?
What is your take on Apple and its future range of products?