Apple Has New iPhones. Should We Care?

In my early days reporting from San Francisco in the mid-2010s, no event was bigger than Apple's annual iPhone release. Readers clamored for specs. Reporters jostled for photos. Website traffic surged. A decade later, Apple continues to churn out new models, but little else remains constant. Even as Apple introduced the brand-new iPhone Air this week, its event felt weirdly anticlimactic. The company's new iPhone may be thinner and sleeker than ever, but it's no major leap forward. "The emperor has no clothes," tweeted ex-Reddit CEO Yishan Wong alongside an image showing little . . .