Last summer Apple deleted an app scamming $80,000/month from iOS users. At the time, Apple promised to pay closer attention to subscription apps to prevent similar schemes in the future. Clearly, however, some are still slipping through… More at Forbes…. Read More ›
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A moment of sanity
I spent some time yesterday looking at the Oris Carl Brashear limited edition and just for a moment thought that the asking price of £3,600 was reasonable. It was one of those moments when reason had left the building, when… Read More ›
The Spring Bar
If you feel like ordering at least a hundred, Otto Frei will sell them to you (at the time of this writing) for the low, low price of exactly 94 cents a pop (“assembled by hand in a small village… Read More ›
on the iphone x and ios 12 gestures
Conceptually, I still miss the home button a bit – there was something nice about how it was “out of band” from every app-interaction – it was kind of reassuring that to know you were communicating directly with the device,… Read More ›
Nobody notices your watch, nobody cares
I didn’t own the watch (it was a rental from the good folks at Eleven James, who let me try their service), but that didn’t change things. I was conscious of it nearly all of the time. Walking down the… Read More ›
What should Apple change next year?
It is a struggle to think of things Apple needs to change in the future because the company is doing rather well at the moment, $1 trillion and all that. There are some areas, in my humble opinion though, that… Read More ›
A missed opportunity?
Based on the rumours I was ready to write an article entitled ‘Apple just released its most important product this decade’ tonight. As it happens I cannot do that because the Apple Watch series 4 didn’t tick the boxes I… Read More ›
Why is Rolex so popular? Why?
I was talking to an authorised dealer for Rolex the other day and mentioned the fact that the Submariner and certain other models are seemingly being constrained in terms of the volume on sale. He disputed this and advised that… Read More ›
Watches feed a guy’s sense of security/superiority
To parse another thing that guys do: they see a watch all over social media, read about it in all the magazines … it quickly becomes the It-Watch, which they also start obsessively wanting. “Everyone who is anyone has X,… Read More ›
$1 trillion and counting
It’s a lot of money and not really $1 trillion because of how the markets work, but it is a significant milestone that only a select few organisations had a chance of breaching. The reaction has been predictable in many… Read More ›
