I always buy an iPhone Pro, but this year I opted for iPhone Air instead, and three words from Apple’s presentation—“power of Pro”—sum up why.
iPhone Air is ultra-thin but has the “power of Pro”
I’ve been excited about the iPhone Air since the first rumors emerged last year.
Based on early reporting, I quickly proclaimed: “Air won’t be the best iPhone, but it will be the future.”
I knew there would be battery and camera drawbacks. But I always expected the iPhone Air’s battery would be “good enough,” and that seems true.
Losing cameras hurts, but it turns out I almost always stick with the Main camera anyways.
As we got closer to the unveiling, there was one more significant factor that had me on the fence: would the Air truly be a futuristic-type premium product, or would it be a highly compromised experiment?
Apple’s other Air products—iPad Air and MacBook Air—definitely aren’t futuristic or premium. I wouldn’t call them experiments either though. Rather, those Air products are more about offering great value.
If the iPhone Air was Apple’s new “great value” model, I wouldn’t be interested.
But as a premium device with the “power of Pro,” as Apple said, it’s exactly what I want.
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