The staggeringly thin iPhone Air is probably not the iPhone you should buy today, but it is the one that shows where all smartphones are headed.
Reminiscent of how the original iPhone was shown off in glass bell jars, Apple suspended iPhone Air at the launch — image credit: Apple
You will surely change your mind, at least temporarily, once you see an iPhone Air in person. But all reason says that you need to hand it back politely rather than pay out $999 for a phone that just does not seem ready yet.
That it exists at all is a marvel of Apple’s engineering teams, but that marvel was achieved through such compromises that the iPhone Air is close to being just a proof of concept. It’s Apple saying it can do this thing, and now we know it truly can, but its sole real benefit is its startling thin size.
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