

Even people who don’t watch it know when the Super Bowl is played. It’s a lot like the Super Bowl, which often isn’t even the best football game of the year, let alone sporting event, but is undeniably the biggest. I’m not sure I know a single person who isn’t at least aware of the fact that Apple just announced new iPhones this week. You can argue that it should not be the biggest event of the year, but it objectively is, media-coverage-wise. 1īut for the past decade, the biggest event on the entire tech calendar has been Apple’s annual introduction of new iPhones. From PCs to PDAs to digital cameras to iPods. And the big new “tech product of the year” not only changes from one company to another every few years, it changes across product categories. The way tech has traditionally worked is that company fortunes wax and wane over the course of each decade. That’s weird and new, historically - and for many tech enthusiasts, disappointing. But for most people, it was the biggest tech news event of the year, just like Apple’s iPhone event is every year of late. Does that mean it was boring? For some people, yes. Was Tuesday’s “Wonderlust” event mostly predictable? Yes. Thoughts and Observations on This Week’s ‘Wonderlust’ Apple Event Friday, 15 September 2023 There’s no doubt in my mind that there’s something to this: the new iPhones Pro feel even lighter than the weight reduction alone would suggest. Moment of inertia should be reduced more than if the mass wereĭrang, of course, shows his work. Occurring almost entirely at the perimeter of the phone, the In mass when switching from stainless steel to titanium is Your ability to manipulate a phone is based primarily on its mass,īut also on its moment of inertia. Butīecause it allowed me to do some simple calculations, I decided to

Small amount to our brains but a large amount to our hands. One answer is that people are just more sensitive than we give That noticeable, but Greg Joswiak mentioned it in the keynote and You wouldn’t expect aĬhange from 206 g for the 14 Pro to 187 g for the 15 Pro would be This not only in his Macworld article, but also in the Seemed when he played with it in the hands-on area. Why the iPhones 15 Pro Feel So Much Lighter ★įinally, we come to Jason Snell’s surprise at how light the 15 Pro
