[hinkley]

Also comparatively low volume. If you're going to research a big change to manufacturing processes you start with a lower volume unit.

If they did this with the iPhone then the shareholder meetings would be pandemonium.

Doesn't hurt that it's also the device with the least need for miniaturization. Even if from the standpoint of an American it's a little insulting that they're giving us a device that a monkey could build.