You’re paying too much for your phone

Apple CEO Tim Cook holds up the new and very orange iPhone 17 Pro, which Mr. Beast appears to admire. Apple did something wild at its big annual new iPhone event on Tuesday: It announced a phone that’s actually new. It’s called the iPhone Air, and it’s thin — “the thinnest iPhone ever” — light, and eye-catching. Also its battery life sort of stinks.  You might not want a super thin phone with crappy battery life, but that’s probably not why Apple built the iPhone Air.  Apple built the iPhone Air after years of releasing iPhones that looked and worked the same as the previous year’s i