@dgavin This is a flawed design that should have been shot down at the earliest stages. Not for any technical reason but a social one. It’s dorky. Unless it is inconspicuous, it will always be dorky. And that’s not a natural evolution of this design.
Also: Apple isn’t some singular entity. Apple was, to a great degree, an anomaly of a guy who got design and understood people (how different things could have been if he also hadn’t been a die-hard capitalist we can only imagine).