🇮🇪 𝐆𝐞𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐢𝐏𝐡𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝟏𝟏 𝐏𝐫𝐨 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐞𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐚 𝐜𝐮𝐩 𝐨𝐟 𝐜𝐨𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐞. 🔶 𝐃𝐨 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐚𝐦𝐚𝐳𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐦𝐨!

Still 5.8- and 6.5-inches, the 11 Pros are roughly 0.02 inches taller, wider, and thicker, and 0.63 ounces heavier than their XS counterparts. It's enough that some screen protector companies have warned about incompatibility, but for all practical purposes, they're pretty much the same shape and size.

Now, some people are going to complain bitterly about that — how oh so boring it is. Not that they want them shaped like a paper airplanes or starfish… I don't think. But what about squared off sides again, or a waterfall display? Personally, I'd love to see the former, even if the latter is still so very silly.

But, I've felt for a while now that this year would be very much like the iPhone 7 Plus year. Same platform, an extra camera, beefed up internals, some silicon and machine learned marvels, and some cool new finishes. And, honestly, I'm fine with that approach.

If Apple wants to focus on new I.D. one year, improved internals the year after, and better optics the year after that, like they did with the original iPhone, iPhone 3G, and iPhone 3GS, and again with the iPhone 6, iPhone 6s, and iPhone 7, I'm totally fine with that.

So many people wasted so many column inches complaining about how bored they were with the iPhone 5s back in the day, only to get volcanic-level salty when they couldn't get the gold one on launch day, then applaud when it came back with the iPhone SE, and now again with the iPad Pro, that you just have to chalk it up to people being, you know, people.

Same with the notch. Subjectively, everyone can and will think whatever they want about it. Objectively it's no better or worse than full on foreheads or hole punches, or mechanical choochers what raise and lower camera modules up and down. They're all just different attempts to solve the same problem. At least until all of the Face ID sensors can be moved under the display all right and proper like. (Or we get to my beautiful dream where all the biometrics take snippets all the time and trust becomes a constant, passive, threshold rather than an active authentication gating.)