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grandact73 said:

maltz said:

An AirTag is just a Bluetooth beacon.  I wonder what there is to improve that warrants hardware changes?  I would welcome some other form factors, perhaps.

Definitely needs a thin wallet version.

While vendors do make faux-card AT holders to put into a purse or wallet, they're pretty fat. I ended up switching my wallet out for one made for an AT on the outside of the wallet:

multimedia said:

In my opinion the Ultra is just too morbidly gigantic.

Looks bigger in photos than it does on my wrist. (So did the non-Ultra)

So now I'll be paying a premium to watch ads? (Prime was originally $80/year, but jacked up to $140. So in my mind, I'm already paying a premium for this video over the old just-two-day-shipping Prime) Yeah nah. Their junk status isn't worth paying anything more for, and instead I'll just not watch whatever low-rent offerings they have. 

coolfactor said:

A modular iPhone really would be a next-generation evolutionary step for Apple, but I don't see it happening.

To the contrary, modular smartphones are a failed idea — they've been tried, they failed. iPhone is already extremely recyclable, probably the most recyclable phone on the market. They’re already working toward a closed-loop manufacturing system and it doesn’t get much better. By not being modular, by being an appliance computing device iPhone has the longest useful lifespan of smartphones. So pair the two together — very long useful lifespan, very recyclable. That’s very good.

This nonsense is just people who don’t know what they’re talking about or asking for. 

The Chinese authoritarian dictatorship defenders never fail to disappoint, here to defend the People’s Regime to the end.