> Well isn't it telling that Apple hasn't focused on thinner and lighter than what is currently available for 5 years now?

Could it be that miniaturization has reached a local maximum of what current technology can support and we simply can't make devices that are thinner and lighter while preserving battery life and computing power?

Or maybe they got thin enough so other factors now outweigh thinness. Notice how laptop batteries used to last 2 hours and now they go 8h and more.

If you can make a device 1cm thinner and keep the same 2 hours of battery life, worth it. But if a 10mm device lasts 2 hours and a 12mm lasts 6 hours, obviously 12mm is the better choice.

Notice that phones continue to get thinner. Except around the camera because better photos outweigh smaller camera.

But phones still get bigger. Current phones are far larger than the phones from 2020 and those were larger than those from 2010.

i remember something similar with the ipod shuffle, that they cannot keep make it smaller only because the power button would be too small to operate, innfact the one that is like a piece of metal, the only way to easily slide the power button is with your nail