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I am ethically obliged to supplement my original summary

  [hours later]
  -Ha ha just kidding of course there's a feature tour do you want to see it now
  Hmm OK
  -Have you ever wished I was a phone? (8 slides)
  Really? Let's have a talk about Preferences
  -They are Settings
  OK, let's have a talk about Settings
  -No

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I do wish I could put a SIM card in my Macbook and not have to buy a phone.

You are asking for an iPad.

Oh but if you want to make calls with it you will need an iPhone. That's just them maximizing revenue, I guess.

It's incredibly annoying that I can't make a phone call with my cellular equipped iPad.

This prevents me from buying an iPad mini.

it is incredibly stupid that they did this, but i guess it does force you to buy both an iPad and iPhone?

Everyone still has a phone, and it doesn't force me to buy an Apple phone, it just means the iPad is worth less to me. I'm left stuffing around with Skype or some other horrible voip system because Apple don't like the look of a phone icon on an iPad -- even if you're using AirPods!

Apple could probably build an iPhone/iPad with an M1 CPU and allow you to 'do it all' on the single device.

I really hope one day my phone can also be my day-to-day computer. That would be so cool!

Well, iGoggles are coming soon.

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