The OLED iPad Pro was only the beginning for Apple’s return to thin devices

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge

The thinness of the OLED iPad Pro is lone the opening of a renewed effort by Apple to marque progressively bladed computers, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman successful today’s Power On newsletter. The institution plans a “significantly skinnier” iPhone 17 and is besides moving connected shaving disconnected immoderate of the thickness of the MacBook Pro and the Apple Watch, helium writes.

It’s not the archetypal clip we’ve heard astir a new, highly bladed “iPhone 17 Slim,” arsenic The Information and aggregate proviso concatenation analysts person reported that this telephone is connected its way, perchance astatine a higher terms than the existing iPhone 15 Pro Max. I haven’t seen factual rumors astir conscionable how slim it volition be, but it could person a 6.6-inch show and a smaller Dynamic Island.

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Thickness has its advantages.

It’s not astonishing that the institution wants to spell backmost to its pursuit of thinness, but the cardinal quality present — 1 hopes — is that the institution nary longer wants to bash it seemingly astatine each costs. That thrust created immoderate of the company’s astir awesome devices, but it whitethorn besides person led to bendy iPhones, constricted larboard selection, cruddy artillery life, thermal throttling issues, bad keyboards, and lawsuits for Apple itself. The institution started reversing that inclination though, and today, the iPhone 15 Pro phones and the MacBook Pro lineup are among the thickest of their respective categories the institution has released successful years.

I’ve welcomed those changes, but I would beryllium lying if I said I don’t sometimes miss that old-time futuristic feel. I person an iPhone SE sitting connected my desk, and immoderate clip I prime it up, I’m astounded by however bully it is to use, tiny surface and chugging processor notwithstanding. I besides flip an envious side-eye astatine iPhone 12 oregon 13 Minis erstwhile I spot them.

That clip whitethorn beryllium coming back, and without the costs that were erstwhile associated with it. The current MacBook Air is uncannily bladed — adjacent much truthful than the tiny, fanless 12-inch MacBook — yet it’s almighty and truthful battery-sipping that I consciousness perfectly comfy taking it retired of the location without a charger astir of the time. And I stitchery from David Pierce’s Verge review of the caller iPad Pro that being thinner than an iPod Nano hasn’t travel with immoderate large compromises that iPads didn’t already have.

Those are encouraging signs that the institution whitethorn person yet figured things out, and hopefully it won’t get retired implicit its skis again. Because aft the past fewer years, I’m not funny successful returning to the thin-for-the-sake-of-thin life; sturdiness and all-day artillery are present non-negotiable.