Radu DutzanIt just occurred to me that the Air is the only iPhone that’s actually benefited from not having a SIM card tray. Every US model, since they removed it, has shipped with a plastic spacer in its place, which just makes me angry. How can you be so obsessed about component density and then ship a plastic spacer larger than a Taptic Engine in one of your most space-constrained devices? I can understand why, but it still felt insulting to get a nerfed version of the product for nothing in return
I guess that “nothing” translated into the viability and worldwide availability of the Air, by showing carriers that the writing’s on the wall and they should adopt eSIM ASAP. It’s great strategy.
If you can only forget that your current iPhone has a useless chunk of plastic inside, literally just taking up space, then maybe one day, ten years on, we might all be able to have smaller phones, or a bigger battery, even. Just not today. Today, inert chunk of plastic inside.
Tuomas Hämäläinen 🇺🇦