MacworldIts an exciting time to be an Apple user. What was expected to be a spring event has turned into a string of announcements spread out over five days in February and March bringing a slew of new products: A new app! A new iPhone! Two new iPads! A new chip! Two new Macs!But aside from the strangeness of the launches, Apple also made a few decisions that have us scratching our heads. While there is definitely a bunch of great stuffthe MacBook Air price cut, the iPhone 16es processor, the Mac Studios RAM limitthe announcements are littered with some truly strange decisions that leave the lineup in a weird place for the next 12-15 months. Here are five moves that have us wondering what Apple is thinking.iPhone 16e: No MagSafeWhen Apple launched the iPhone 16e, it cleared up a ton of questions within the iPhone lineup. The SE and its very old design are gone, all models now have USB-C, and theres a new lower-end model with a clear upgrade path. But while we expected a fair amount of sacrifices to get to the lower price, we didnt expect Apple to leave off its proprietary MagSafe charging tech. MagSafe is one of Apples best iPhone features and its even made its way over to AirPods cases and Android phones via the Qi2 standard. So for Apple to skip it on the newest iPhone 16eeven a budget modelis very odd.You can get a MagSafe puck to stick to the iPhone 16e if you try, but make no mistakeits not MagSafe.David Price / FoundryiPad Air: Just an M3When Apple updated the iPad Air in 2024 after more than two years, it was somewhat worth the wait. There was a new 13-inch model, a faster M2 chip, a landscape front camera, faster Wi-Fi, and support for the Apple Pencil Pro. But this time around, not so much. Apples latest iPad Air update arrives less than a year after the last one and brings the one thing no one needs, a slightly faster M3 chip. And thats it. No OLED screen, no new colors, no C1 modem, nothing.iPad: No Apple IntelligenceIf the iPad Air was an unnecessary update, the 11th-gen iPad is even unecessarier. We werent expecting much, but Apple couldnt even clear that bar. Instead of an A17 Pro chip or A18 chip to bring Apple Intelligence support, we got an A16 chip thats only marginally faster than the A14 in the previous model and doesnt support Apple Intelligence. Its still a great deal at $349especially with double the storage but why would Apple release a device in 2025 that doesnt support its marquee feature?Every new device in Apples iPad, iPhone, and Mac lineup is built for Apple Intelligenceexcept the A16 iPad.AppleMac Studio: M3 UltraThe new Mac Studio is a ridiculously powerful machine for its size. (Or any size for that matter.) The high-end chip configuration has a 32-core CPU with 24 performance cores and eight efficiency cores, 80 graphics cores, and support for up to 512GB of RAM. The only strange thing is that the chip is part of the M3 family, not the M4. Reports say the reason is that the M4 chip doesnt have the UltraFusion packaging architecture needed to fuse two M4 Max into one Ultra, but if thats true, then we ask: Why didnt the Mac Studio arrive last year with an M3 Max and M3 Ultra?iPad: Apple PencilOh Apple Pencil, well never understand you. Even with a new iPad lineup, Apple still sells four Apple Pencils, two of which are still listed as compatible with the new iPad: the USB-C Apple Pencil and the 1st-gen Apple Pencil, which was released nearly a decade ago. It has none of the newer features in the USB-C model, including magnetic charging, wireless pairing, or Apple Pencil hover. Yet it costs $20 more.