{"id":969797,"date":"2025-10-28T07:41:21","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T02:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=969797"},"modified":"2025-10-28T07:42:42","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T02:12:42","slug":"the-iphone-air-and-apples-endless-struggle-with-its-middle-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/10\/28\/the-iphone-air-and-apples-endless-struggle-with-its-middle-child\/","title":{"rendered":"The iPhone Air and Apple\u2019s endless struggle with its \u2018middle child\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If psychologists are to be believed, middle children have it tough. They\u2019re not the golden firstborns or the pampered youngest \u2014 just kind of\u2026there. WebMD says they feel overlooked, forgotten, maybe occasionally resentful. <\/p>\n<p>Turns out, Apple\u2019s got the same problem. <\/p>\n<p>For years, the technology behemoth has been trying to give birth to the perfect \u201cin-between\u201d iPhone \u2014 one that\u2019s not as expensive as the Pro, but cooler than the base model. First came the Mini, then the Plus, and now, the Air. Each was supposed to strike that perfect balance. Each, however, ended up stuck in the middle \u2014 overshadowed by its flashier and more affordable siblings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If psychologists are to be believed, middle children have it tough. They\u2019re not the golden firstborns or the pampered youngest \u2014 just kind of\u2026there. WebMD says they feel overlooked, forgotten, maybe occasionally resentful. Turns out, Apple\u2019s got the same problem. For years, the technology behemoth has been trying to give birth to the perfect \u201cin-between\u201d iPhone \u2014 one that\u2019s not as expensive as the Pro, but cooler than the base model. First came the Mini, then the Plus, and now, the Air. Each was supposed to strike that perfect balance. Each, however, ended up stuck in the middle \u2014 overshadowed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-969797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=969797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=969797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=969797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=969797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}