There’s a new iPhone. Again. Improbably, we are on the 17th iteration (give or take) of the product that single-handedly ruins our lives every day with incessant vibrations alerting us to some horrifying calamity, plus every song in the Bruce Springsteen back catalog. Coming up with new features for the never-ending information machines we all keep in our pockets isn’t easy, but this time, Apple managed to develop a big (or should I say small) one. There’s now a thinner iPhone Air, which is being marketed as the thinnest iPhone ever. These gadgets have never exactly been gargantuan, so it’s kind of like identifying the tiniest grain of sand in the desert. Still, people around the world are fascinated by the sheer lack of phone here.
Technology, design, and art are all trending toward a certain scarcity model, prepping us for a lack of bells and whistles, as though both your parents are unemployed and they want you to expect fewer trips to Disneyland. Life on Earth feels more and more like the experience of entering a Sweetgreen – beige, spartan and unobtrusive. Sure, iPhones haven’t gotten cheaper, but they have certainly gotten … lesser. The iPhone Air is so small, I feel like I’ll sit on it and it will slide seamlessly up my rectum, never to be seen again. For some, I’m sure losing your device inside your bowels might be a feature, but I think it’s a rather uncomfortable bug.
what is this idea of “thin phone”??? A thick phone could fit more battery and specs and better camera
people around the world are fascinated by the sheer lack of phone here
My thoughts exactly
I mean, I don’t know who the target demo is that looks at an iPhone and says “cool, but it’s just too thick.”
If they used the negative space that could pad and level the stupid bulge of a camera, they might even be able to fit a headphone jack and an SD card slot and double the battery and put your weed in there.
People who dislike their phones so much should stop using them. I’m very happy with mine.
once you get out of social media you realize the problem are those , no the phones.
I love being able to talk good quality pictures of my kids without having to even think about it or sharing them with their grandmother.
I enjoy when my home screen presents me with a nice portrait taken years ago that I have forgotten about. live photos are an amazing detail that often without any intention capture a funny or cute scene.
The phones is boring but thy are also a canvas. look the kind of covers that teenage girls use.
the problems with phones are not the phones. it’s companies taking advantage of them to steal every second of attention from us
Did you read the article though? It is actually about minimalism
yes, but that part is even dumber and didn’t wan to talk much of it.
so they sell like 5 different iphones and one of them is marketed as the thinnest. it is apple trying to widen their almost saturated market, not a conspiracy.
I love articles that use “phone” and “iPhone” interchangeably. Like, jfc.
Especially from a tech critic.
The iPhone Air is so small, I feel like I’ll sit on it and it will slide seamlessly up my rectum, never to be seen again.
There’s a 6.9” (nice) display joke here, but it’s too early in the morning to fit one in.
What in the fuck is this guy talking about? Me when I’m addicted to social media but refuse to turn off notifications or curate my experience. The beginning of that second paragraph is a strange concoction of words that doesn’t actually communicate anything. I skimmed through the article and it devolves into a rant about a play the author didn’t enjoy and other stray ramblings like this:
Less is considered more. Being “tacky” is seen as the greatest imaginable sin. Odd, considering who’s the president of the United States and what he’s done to the White House, but maybe that’s the origin of all this cold minimalism.
This entire article feels like a paper you didn’t start until the night it was due and only remembered about after you took a weed gummy.
First time reading an opinion piece? This isn’t a review.
Life on Earth feels more and more like the experience of entering a Sweetgreen – beige, spartan and unobtrusive.
That’s exactly my style. Literally all my clothing fulfills that criteria. It’s either beige, green, or some variation of brown, very spartan, no decorations at all, and very unobtrusive. I think i could go into a forest and fit right into the plants, aesthetically.
Is this some kind of AI generated bad faith criticism?
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