The people running subscription services within Apple may be measured on metrics (subscriber count/growth) that may not be aligned with the long-term interests of the company as a whole, especially since brand value and the effect of software advertising on hardware sales are hard to quantify.

This is what is going to kill Apple (for me at least).

I've been wondering when the Google-ification of Apple will start.

The iPhone boom really let them have the luxury of not behaving like complete assholes for a long time. Now, in order to hit ever higher quarterly targets, they're probably going to start enshittifying like everyone else.

Isn't this just the Air?

Very different aspect ratio. I can’t stand the regular iphones it’s impossible to use one handed without using that dumb flick gesture to bring the top of the screen down to the bottom half

No, it would be smaller, thinner, and lighter than the Air.

Perhaps you could reinforce both the outside and the inside, so any swelling would be directed parallel to the finger?

Or have a cut in the outer ring with an insert filling the gap. A partial ring is easiy to bend outwards, but difficult to bend inwards.

The bluetooth protocol has been reverse-engineered and you can run everything locally with https://github.com/Th0rgal/open_oura

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