Review: Apple’s iPhone Air is a bunch of small changes that add up to something big

If you pamper me for a moment, this is some ancient story.

In 2008, when Apple took The very first MacBook Air From the manila envelope, he was not positioned as a new MAC laptop at the initial level of Apple. The innovative, but flawed system began with $ 1799, which is much higher than the price of an entry -level plastic MacBook and in the territory of the MacBook Pro.

In these early years of formation, the branding of “air” did not indicate a model of an average or initial level, but an alternative to branching from the basic MacBook. Pay Apple more money can lead to a larger number of a computer – a Pro model, with a large processor, a large screen, a large amount of storage, most of all – or it can get you another The type of computer, with fundamentally different advantages and compromises.

I raise this ancient flash in the history of Apple, because this early MacBook Air is an “air” product that Air Air reminds me the most. Starting with $ 999, it is unlocked – $ 200 more than the main iPhone – it is estimated at the iPhone Pro. But, like this old MacBook Air, the focus on size and weight actually makes it a decrease in the basic iPhone in some fundamental ways.

I landed on the iPhone Air as the first of these three iPhone for a consistent review, because this is the only one where I still do not have a pretty good idea of ​​what it is. I know what the use of iPhone is. I know what it seems to the iPhone Pro. But this is a kind of new third thing. Maybe I will like it!

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From left to right: iPhone Air, iPhone 17, iPhone 17 Pro.


Credit: Andrew Canningham

When I set the phone, I recorded several notes about the changes from my 15 Pro and that there were default settings, and some of these notes were not finally approached anywhere in the review.

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