If you fell asleep in 1945 and woke up in 2018 you would not recognize the world around you. The amount of growth that took place during that period is virtually unprecedented. If you learned that there have been no… Read More ›
Articles
Going smart feels dumb (moving to the Apple Watch series 4)
I have been wearing a series 4 Apple Watch for the past two months and I have not worn a mechanical timepiece since. It feels wrong, I feel like a fraud and the overwhelming sense that I am giving something… Read More ›
How far can Apple go?
Rumblings are surfacing about Apple’s recent pricing strategy and I can understand why this is so. An iPhone for £1,000 and up, an iPad for £1,800 and up, and the cheapest Mac starting at above £1,000 feel high to me… Read More ›
shape detection
While Steve Jobs was right that HAVING to use a stylus on a phone-sized device was terrible, it’s probably not great that it took 5 years into the life of the iPad to introduce a precision stylus, the Apple Pencil…… Read More ›
Conflicted about retail
I spent some time in Waterstones today with my wife. It’s a beautifully presented shop and the experience is always welcoming, friendly and educational if you have a question. We spotted two books that would make good Christmas presents and… Read More ›
Apple only accepts complaints by ‘letter’ (update: and by email?)
20th November: I should update this article following a call from Apple Executive Relations today. Apparently you can ask for a complaint to be logged without sending a letter, which I sent this morning as it happens, and the lady… Read More ›
Drop your Apple Watch from 2 feet and the screen smashes
As you may know I have owned a lot of watches and one thing that they have all had in common is the ability to survive life. Whether they have been £10 or £1,000 I have never had a watch… Read More ›
Why It’s Still Worth Shooting with Film
So, you might ask, why would anyone even think about shooting with old-school film these days? The stuff is finicky and has to be developed in a time-consuming process, delaying our now accustomed instant gratification of seeing photos immediately. But… Read More ›
How does a watch guy fall for the Apple Watch?
When I reviewed the series 4 Apple Watch a few weeks ago I was somewhat disparaging about certain aspects. The battery life was a big downside for me, but perhaps more than anything the fact it is not a ‘real’… Read More ›
Sinatra and Kennedy
The sequence of events seems essentially right, except for the quaint idea that Bobby—or anybody else who read a newspaper or gossip column over the previous twenty years—was unaware of Sinatra’s fraternizing with the Mob. If Frank’s fondness for gangsters… Read More ›
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