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humbug1873 said:

Together with the essentially useless satellite emergency call (at least outside US), this years iPhone introduction was quite useless.

Like all insurance, it's useless... until it isn't 

I've been working remotely on and off for over a decade now - and if I was at the start of my career I can't think of anything more dangerous to my long term success than the allure of working from home.  As others touched on, you simply can't replace the serendipity of unplanned interactions that can only happen in person.  Every significant promotion or job opportunity I have had came from direct, physical interactions that simply would not have happened if I had been working full time remote.  Now that I'm near the end I don't mind working 100% remote full time. Indeed it's let me move closer to my parents, who are older and need my support.  But I think many, especially those who are younger/just starting out, grossly underestimate and are far more ready to write off the value of in-person interactions - it's rather tragic.  
Yet another reason I count my blessings for starting out in the late 80's/early 90's and not picking up bad habits that are so easy today.  

Beats said:
I’m disappointed they went for an SD card slot instead of an extra USB-C port. 

Easy - a USB-A port WORKS EVERY TIME.

If you forget to bring a dongle you are SOL - which happens far too often.  It would be nice if we could wave a magic wand and banish legacy tech in one fell swoop - but alas, we live in the real world were interoperability still has significant value.

At least they also brought MagSafe back.  I had an M1 MacBook Air and by far and away the biggest port I missed was MagSafe.  Thank god for the clunky magnetic USB-C solutions that were out there - I'd like to think they embarrassed Apple into bringing MagSafe back. 

DAalseth said:

Regarding Continuity Camera

Your iPhone doesn't even have to be unlocked. The Mac still recognizes that it's near, turns on the iPhone's camera, 

On the face of it that sounds like a potential security vulnerability. A Mac will recognize a nearby iPhone on the same network and access the camera even if the phone is locked. I’m admittedly a bit paranoid about security but that sounds kinda’ sketchy. 

it only works if both devices are signed into your iCloud account.  Shouldn't be an issue unless you share an iCloud ID with multiple people?

Lots of good stuff in there!  Here's to hoping there is sharing for Airtags - or at least whitelisting.  As it's currently designed, family members with their own Airtags on their own Apple ID's make the "you might be tracked" feature utterly worthless and plagued with false positives; with no way to discern the nuisance notifications from true threats.