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I've used and use a case on all my phones so the bump has never been a problem. Outside of my house or office or when not alone my phone is never face-up.

Making the back of the phone the same thickness as the rest of the bump would use more metal and increase the weight and possibly the cost of the phone. Weight wouldn't be a consideration for most of us but Apple trims 'fat' so as to maximize profit which is sometimes a benefit for the rest of us. I think they would see it as a significant needless expense. I think they'd be right. Less than The Notch I think this is more of an issue than a problem and not one for the majority of customers.

Even if there's some advantage to doing this, do we know that a subsequent macOS update would then sync your contacts to Apple, give that Siri would be enabled before the update?

Apple routinely turns on some setting when doing various updates. This is possibly because they ship OSs with some things enabled that some users don't want, so they turn them off. A subsequent update ships setting same as when Apple had them in the initial update, so they're "reenabled", to the ire of the user.

There are files I've deselected to be synced with iCloud, but syncing was enabled via an update. I disabled that, scrubbed iCould of the files (and maybe they're still there somehow) and very recently discovered iC had a bunch more of the docs. I had to disable syncing again, and scrub the files.

So Apple is not bound to trust your choices. They reset to boiler plate updates and it's up to you to fix what they 'fix'.

The Studio Display is a much better version of my older 27" Apple display. Even so it's still a 27" display. A $300 discount isn't even enough to make me bite. I want a little larger display maybe 32". It could be closer in specs to the Studio Display than the XDR and closer in price. That's what I want.

melgross said:

Folks, this is the air. It’s a much cheaper tablet than the pro. What do you expect, a product with equal specs to a much more expensive model? This is a pretty good chip, with a good performance increase over the last model. Stop whining!

Seconded. Why do people think that every new product was aimed at them? It's an incremental upgrade yes. There are people with a two or three generation old iPad for which this might be a big upgrade. This wouldn't be a great choice for people who upgrade at every new iteration.

I like seeing Apple bring out updated products but fully realize that if I buy a product I'll have it for quite awhile. I usually won't be considering new gear until at least a third generation. I definitely wouldn't be thinking an Air line should be on par with their Pro line. I'll be looking at the iPP and iPmini when they next debut. That'll be four generations over what I have now.

This IPA will be a good upgrade for a lot of people just not everybody. Really what any one iteration of just about any product is good for everyone.

I've got a 15" M3 MBA  and can't see any reason to upgrade, unless Tim himself offered to swap straight across. Our machines on many fronts have pretty much plateaued, so incremental updates don't do much for anyone who's bought a recent machine. But somebody with an M2 MBA might appreciated the M4 update. That's reason enough for Apple to do the incremental thing.

There was a time when we could count on an upgrade providing more RAM, more storage, a CPU bump, and maybe GPU bump for the same money we paid for an earlier version, less equipped. I don't know that this happens nearly as much.