Pema

Thank you Mr Cohen for you incisive and comprehensive review of the recent iPhone 15 lineup. I have decided to forego and wait for iPhone 16. 
Just like to point out that in our household we have both and iPhone and a Pixel Phone. The latest iteration of the latter phone is the Pixel 7. The Pixel 8 which you mentioned in your article has not been officially released. 
While I applaud your informative and well-written article on the iPhone it is always good to fact-check details about competing or comparable products. 

It appears as though Apple, despite its assurances in doing so otherwise, is fiercely attempting to disrupt employees efforts to unionise. First there was the concerted effort to coerce in-store employees. That was soon followed by more stringent efforts to send officials in to the stores and intimidate employees. And now its Putin-like tactics. If the stores can't talk to each other then they can't mobilise. 

Tactics employed in Tehran, Russia, North Korea and where ever fine regimes are to be found. 

Microsoft (of DOS & Windows infamy) that has more bugs and malware than there are pebbles on the beach. They are so busy swatting their sheit, when do they have the time to debug others? 

OK. Confession time. I am an Apple user from way back. On the desktop. Mac always. I have also gravitated to jobs - EDU - where Macs prevail. But phone-wise I prefer the Google Pixel. Its working functionality aligns well with my thinking. So, I was looking forward with great anticipation for the Pixel Tablet. 
It looked good, and I was ready to order. Until I saw the back of it. Butt ugly. That is a type of shelf decoration that my granny would have parked next to her grandfather clock. Who in their right mind would want that hunchback in their study, office, living room? No one. 
I can't imagine that anyone with any sense of styling would think to park a big hunk behind their tablet so that they can have a charging dock that is five times bigger than their tablet and just as much more in weight. 

I can cast my phone to my Sonos anytime. And I imagine that any modern household has some type of speaker: HomePod, Sonos, etc. Not Amazon - a company that has as much sense of style - ok let's let that go. Amazon has no sense of building anything electronic and that's that. Let them stick to their knitting: selling stuff. 

Obviously this tablet is going to sink to the bottom with that boat anchor attached to it. 

Pity. It would have been a reasonable alternative to the iPad range. So, for now, Apple is still the tablet king. 

btw, Google is clearing out millions of dollars worth of Pixel Watches that they couldn't unload. All you have to do is purchase their Google Fold and you get a free Pixel Watch. I guess that is one way to dump a doozy.