A company that embraces the beauty of simplicity and plays a lead role in defining the design ideals of our time, APPLE is about to inspire headlines and hot-takes once again. It’s proposing to take refinement of the ethereal to new levels, across its range of products. Think iPhones that are even thinner than thin. Think MacBook Pros that are as svelte as they come. Think APPLE Watches that defy expectations by demanding even less on your wrist. In this piece, we’ll explore how APPLE closing in on the thinnest can help change the way we experience technology – and what it could tell us about where the industry is headed next.
And the thin revolution at APPLE has been perfectly captured by the existence of the iPhone. The iPhone is known for being both beautifully designed and very technologically advanced. And the iPhone has also been known for evolving. The Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman with all of these things in mind, has indicated that a thinner iPhone than ever before is coming. The new iPhone is slated for release potentially the iPhone 17 in 2025. Thinner than ever and incredibly designed.
The MacBook Pro has long been APPLE’s halo product, delivering breathtaking power in an attractive, slim package. But APPLE doesn’t stop at “good enough”. The concept for an even thinner MacBook Pro represents the culmination of the company’s ongoing mission to improve and innovate. A thinner MacBook Pro represents the next generation of aesthetic design but also poses the question: Can beautiful technology get smaller and smaller?
APPLE’s ethos of design lightness extends well beyond smartphones and laptops. There are rumours that the APPLE Watch too will get a diet, with the second-generation of the fashion-tech icon endorsing functionality by reducing the device’s thickness to previously unimaginable levels. If this happens, the APPLE Watch experience will almost certainly come to define the norm for wearables.
Rather than being about making something pretty for its own sake, making the thinnest and lightest possible product is fundamentally a way of reimagining the usability of it. APPLE’s track record on this front highlights how seriously it is pursuing this vision. It’s not only that APPLE wants to create things that are not just products to be used, but rather experiences to be lived – it is also that APPLE’s products are setting standards for the entire tech industry.
These slim new gadgets will be among the thinnest devices by category in the world: that alone is no small feat of engineering. Getting slimmer laptops to manage heat, and slimmer watches and phones to last longer between battery charges, will be among the challenges APPLE’s design and engineering teams must tackle for these devices. In fact, the ever-slimmer iPhone could command a premium over other models, which means consumers will be extra keen to see if these thin gadgets deliver those experiences commensurately.
The thinner you go, the slimmer your computer, and the slimmer your computer, the more possible a potentially richer world of technologies and possibilities. Making computers thinner is not just about owning a better computer — it is about the promises that such devices might make possible. Thinner products might make computers more portable, sleeker, more stylish, and, perhaps, offer opportunities for new features not previously possible in thicker ones. Economic forecasters and APPLE fanboys alike are excited not about the thinner computers themselves, but about the kinds of speculation they open up in the here and now, about the shape the future will take, and about the place of technological life in that world.
It’s a vision of the future that places technology and design in a symbiotic relationship. APPLE’s sexualised approach to thinness – it wants its MacBooks, iPads and MacBook Pros to be as waiflike as possible – is a subversion of the norms, creating new benchmarks for what technology can achieve. We won’t know until tomorrow morning. I, for one, welcome this encounter with the future. It reminds me why APPLE will continue to be a titanic company for a long time to come.
the thinning of APPLE’s most important product categories shows that innovation is still an essential part of the APPLE brand. The upcoming thinner iPhone, MacBook Pro and APPLE Watch are not just a product of APPLE making their products thinner, but is a re-imagination of the landscape of the future of technology: a pathway where design elegance and technology sophistication meet to create delightful, inspiring and transformative experiences.
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