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melgross said:

I would get this.

Oh, would you get this?

"Give me half a dozen of the Vulcan D-tens and set my friend up with the whole schmear. You know, clubs, bags, shoes, gloves, shirt, pants. Hey, orange balls! I'll have a box of those and give me a box of those naked-lady tees, gimme two of those, gimme six of those..."

Apple is only "experimenting" with thinner iPhones because they have to work out the design before they move over to folding phones. Otherwise, we'd end up with a phone the size of an iPhone Pro Max, BUT  THICKER - oh boy! It would be the 1st phone that has truly earned the nickname "the brick."

Isn't having a "keyboard" in this device that resembles the typewriter experience an example of skeuomorphism? Jony where are you? But it does illustrate why skeuomorphic elements were essential at the beginning of the mobile computing revolution. We must be gently led into new technologies like this. Familiarity is everything at this stage.

Apple is soooo late to the game with this product. Many of us have already found similar non-Apple solutions that work very well.