Apple's next online-only launch will be April 20, upgraded iPads on tap

or surprise me with much more

I'll get the most it has to offer at 16GB or greater

apple is generally allergic to low-price, low-volume hardware products, which i think airtags might turn out to be, since there's an inherent tension between price and volume, and capital costs and margins. in other product lines, apple builds enough differentiation to alleviate those tensions in its favor, but there isn't that sort of opportunity in airtags (as much as i wish there were). the utility of airtags is not insignificant, but is limited by loss incidence/recovery rates and network reach, and potentially has significant support costs and customer-facing risk.

so instead, the cost-benefit analysis points to developing the network, which supplements the moat around their flagship, the iphone, provides further lock-in into their existing icloud infrastructure, and provides some modest high-margin income to boot, without incurring the added capital costs and other risks.

Apple is really good about this. More things are done on-device, and the list of on-device machine learning stuff keeps expanding. Their strategy is very different compared to Google or Amazon.

Take a look at: https://www.apple.com/privacy/

At that price point you probably want to grab an used GoPro, a real used Camera (like an older Canon EOS or similar), or even an older iPhone 10 or so.

These all will give you infinitely better image quality than the Logitech Brio 4K.

Adding more pixels to a shitty camera only gives you more shitty pixels.

Not at all. They share an architecture, but are designed and optimized for different constraints and goals. It's likely the two lines will diverge further as the M series scales upward.