My Thoughts About Apple’s iPhone 16 “Glowtime” Event – On my Om

I appreciated Om's perspective on the most recent iPhone announcements. He frames up the cycle we are in very well:

It’s hard to internalize, but we are at the end of the “phone hardware” cycle. From 1996 to 2007, we had a world dominated by 12-keypad phones that did a few other things. From 2007 to 2024, we have had a rectangular slab that does many things, including making calls. The first cycle lasted 11 years. This one has lasted longer. Toward the end of the first mobile phone era, it became all about incremental changes: better cameras, longer battery life, cooler colors, slightly different shapes, curves and, of course, thinner devices. Sound familiar?

The physical device is really just the same glass with very few buttons around it. Everything else is in the software.