[wlesieutre]

Finally moved on from my 12 mini, but I still have it sitting in my office and when I pick it up I think "wow this feels like a phone from the future."

Wish they made a new mini instead of the Air. A friend bought one of those, and frankly I just don't get it.

The screen is too big to use it one-handed, and thickness is really the only one of the three dimension of the phone that I don't care about how small it is (within reason). They probably spent billions of dollars shaving off half a millimeter and what do we get with that technology? Phone that's too big.

If this keeps up in another 5 years I'll be looking at flip phones and a separate camera.

[sbinnee]

I don't get Air either. My guess is that Air is just a stepping stone for a foldable iphone.

[wlesieutre]

I think that's it exactly. Hopefully we're not looking forward to "phone that's too big, and unfolds to be even more too big."

I can see a large unfolded phone being desirable if it had a stylus and I could use it like a small notebook, but just as a "watch Netflix bigger for $2000" device, no.

Especially if it has the worst camera of all of the phone models like the Air does.

[euroderf]

You'll want a replacement stylus 10-pak.

[wlesieutre]

Somehow not a problem I have - still have my original 2018 iPad stylus, and I don't lose regular pens either.

Suspect this is a mindset thing if you mostly use 10 cent Bic pens you'll never care to make a habit of keeping them, and then when you're using an expensive gadget pen those habits carry over.

Even a pen that costs a few bucks (Signo UM-151 for instance) I know where they're at.