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Looking at the specs, its brightness is just 200 nits. Despite the impressive contrast delivered by its VA panel, it can't do much with HDR if that's all the brightness it can manage. I'd be interested in a much higher spec monitor with all these bells and whisles but not, I'm afraid, in this offering.

You're almost selling the A7 short by not explicitly mentioning that, when it duly shipped — on time — its performance trounced the competitors that the naysayers had been boosting, particularly in single-core and browsing performance, where it opened up a lead that Apple holds to this day. Multicore, with just two cores, and graphics beat pretty much all-comers at release, holding that crown for a good year. See, for example, https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/09/review-with-the-iphone-5s-apple-lays-groundwork-for-a-brighter-future/3/ for comparative performance at release, and https://www.anandtech.com/show/9102/the-htc-one-m9-review-part-1/5 a year and a half later, when Android devices were finally catching up — although, by that time, the (larger!) target was the iPhone 6, not the 5S.

But wait! there's more:

• Access to over 100,000 new music stations from iHeartRadio, radio.com and TuneIn.

• Sleep timer.

The lack of those meant there was no way I would buy a HomePod. Mind, I probably won't even now, unless I get even more annoyed at Sonos' incessant content-free updates than I am now. 

You seem to need a laptop.

Not just iPhones: also seen from a Mac this morning.