Welcome to 9 to 5 Mac Daily for Thursday, September 11th, 2025.

I'm your host, Chance Miller.

We are sponsored this week by I-Mazing.

Leading off today in a new interview with the Wall Street Journal, Apple CEO Tim Cook,

vice president of industrial design, Molly Anderson,

and vice president of Human Interface Design,

Alan Dye, have discussed their own hopes and reactions in response to the iPhone Air.

During the interview, the three executives tout the device's thinness and lightness,

but they offer some interesting tidbits on their own thoughts about the product.

For instance, Molly Anderson had this to say about the iPhone Air's titanium frame.

She says, quote, unlike the more textured pro models, the air surface is polished to a highly

reflective shine to make the phones look even thinner and perhaps more distinctive.

Being able to bring that kind of luster evokes a different sense of what the phone is

and how people use it and how they wear it, end quote.

Anderson also acknowledged that there might be some tricky buying decisions for users jumping

between the iPhone Air and the iPhone Pro.

Anderson said, quote,

I like that it's a hard choice. I really think people will struggle with it because the pro is a beautiful and incredible product as well.

But I think the lightness of the air, the lean towards the style, the idea of not carrying so much

weight is just such a different experience. End quote. Meanwhile, Alan Dye said that the iPhone air represents another step towards Apple's

quote singular piece of glass that Steve Jobs talked about back in the day.

End quote.

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