The iPhone air seems like a wild review for Apple Ar glasses

Apple had a lot of messages this week, but maybe no one was bigger (and paradoxically slimmer) than the iPhone Air. On the one hand, there is the fact that it is the first Apple phone of Apple to brand air to mark a rare new iPhone category, both current and future. Then it’s the fact that the iPhone is the air very much Slim – 5.64 mm to be accurate. The senior editor of Gizmodo, Consumer Tech, Raymond Wong, has got some time with the iPhone Air, and he says he feels as thin as he seems thinner than Samsung’s Galaxy S25 Edge to be accurate. Think Ozmpic, but for the iPhone.

But as exciting as all this is, this is not the novelty or even the subtlety that my head turned – this is what the iPhone Air says about the future. And to see this you have to look at what is happening Inside.

This is a high signal for the upcoming future.

For the context, the entire computer. Modems, antennas, everything needed to calculate the iPhone Air, fits inside the camera.

The rest of the phone is a screen and battery.

My thoughts.

Ever since Apple made the first watch, they … pic.twitter.com/ufjavna52p

– Linus Ekenstam (@LinuseKenstam) September 10, 2025

If you have paid attention to X, you may have seen this photo in your issue. This is the interior of the iPhone Air you are watching and is important for one reason. Do you see all these things at the top? This is mainly the whole phone – or the whole computer power, at least. Apple was able to dull basically everything that turns the iPhone into an iPhone (camera and calculation) into a tiny section at the top of the chassis. The rest of the phone? A large and very thin battery. This is the feat of engineering, really, but beyond that, and a template for what Apple can do afterwards.

There are many consequences of the ability to stuff a powerful computer in a small space, but what intrigues me most is a pair of AR glasses. Why ar glasses, specifically? Well, they are a perfect case of miniaturization that interferes with a bright new future. Not that we don’t have the technology (in theory) to get AR glasses to work – we can put screens in the glasses display, we have applications and a user interface, and the camera sensors are less than ever – but that makes it all in the formal factor that people are ready and ready to carry on their faces. We have to do things less if we are going to think more. Write this, Apple Marketing.

It just happens that this is exactly what the iPhone Air does. He stuffs a powerful computer in a space that used to feel too limited. And what makes me even more enchanted than miniaturization in the iPhone air is the fact that Apple has long been rumored to be developing a pair of AR glasses.

In February, Bloomberg’s Mark Guerman reviewed his earlier claims that Apple had stopped developing AR goggles, and instead reported that he had killed a « stop product » that would compete with Meta’s Ray-Ban intelligent glasses. To me, this says that Apple is not uninterested in AR, but it is only waiting for a product that actually moves the needle – maybe a pair of AR goggles that resemble regular glasses in size and weight, but can still start applications and act as secondary messages for messages, calls and navigation. You know, the perfect pair of smart glasses. With the miniature of the iPhone and the computer inside them, it is the feeling that this is a step closer to this purpose, although there are other concerns about creating a gadget of this caliber that the iPhone Air does not have to deal with.

One of these obstacles is the battery. Apple did a good job (at least on paper), making the iPhone’s air battery suitable for most people, claiming that it continues « throughout the day », which in this case means about 27 hours offline video playback and 22 hours of streaming. Given it, she still bothered to let the air on the iPhone with the Magsafe battery, which expands the phone’s battery. Maybe I’m reading this too much, but it seems to me that Apple can come out in front of something. The same question can also extend to a pair of AR glasses.

Even if Apple could get a whole computer into a pair of light glasses, working everything will still have to be very effective, especially if there is a high brightness screen, audio capabilities and the ability to start applications. All these things eat a battery – and quickly. It’s all to say that shrinking a computer is huge, but powering the damn thing is just as important. Even with this piece of puzzle, potentially unauthorized, it’s hard not to believe that Apple can make it work … after all.

Just a few years ago, we would have looked at the idea of ​​iPhone air and said, « There is no way. » Not durable enough; There is not enough battery; Moore’s law is dead; Anger, anger. But here. The iPhone, which is slim and lightweight and even has Apple’s most powerful A19 Pro Chip. If I were a betting man, I would bet that Apple is already looking for ways to increase this Ante, improving battery life, cameras and makes its air just as capable as the iPhone of the base model. And who am I to bet against them at that moment? Call me crazy, but if the iPhone Air is some indication, my money is on a pair of apple glasses that do all this – and maybe earlier than you think.