Re: iPhone 17 Air completely port-free

On Sun, 16 Mar 2025 20:13:43 -0000 (UTC), badgolferman wrote :

It works. Herd animal iPhone owners line up outside the Apple store because they can't wait to ditch their old iPhones for the new ones!

 Rather than considering something gimmicky like that...

Personally, I think it's Apple's way to give the finger to the EU by
designing a phone that relies *even more!* on Apple's servers to work.

I wish Apple would
consider redesigning the horrendous lump of the camera lenses sticking out
of the body so much. At the very least spread them across the back
symmetrically so the phone doesn't wobble side to side when set down.

That's interesting, in that I never had a problem with a camera lump.
Not on my iPads, my iPhones, my Android, my tablets, etc.
Any unflattering lump is basically flattened out by the case, isn't it?

Surely that's something simple to do.

Apple doesn't do simple. Apple's strategy is to remove functionality so
that you have to feel the pain enough that you're forced to buy it back.
If Apple removes all ports, it simply proves my long-standing well-founded
assertion that Apple's strategy is to keep the iPhone as a dumb terminal.