Why do they keep investing into the iphone air? There’s nearly no consumer interest in an iphone thats ‘as thin as possible’.
With the capabilities they showed they have for slimming parts down I’d be much much more interested in more battery capacity and a smaller iphone, a new mini.
For the upcoming foldable. Keeping the air allows them to successively engineer the following foldable generation with lower risk and spread out the costs.
> The main paint points about foldable is a — duh — folding screen and a hinge. And neither are in air.
The idea is that the folding phone would be essentially 2 Air’s* with a hinge between them.
* possibly/probably thinner, but the Air serves as a “how thin can we make this since we need to improve our ability to make thin phones/components to accomplish a folding phone”. A sort of “you have to walk before you can run”-type thing. At least that’s how I see it.
With the capabilities they showed they have for slimming parts down I’d be much much more interested in more battery capacity and a smaller iphone, a new mini.