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Apple Vision Pro – first hands on
Yesterday I got the chance to try the future of computing… I finally got to get my hands on the Apple Vision Pro, which has now arrived in the uk. The full experience left me with one thing in mind, ‘this is another iPhone moment’. The first time I used and iPod Touch (the gen…
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The iPod is dead. Long live the iPod.
Apple has decided to discontinue the iPod Touch. The last iPod. My first touchscreen Apple device (as I waited for the first-generation iPhone to arrive in the UK). What does it mean? Does it mean anything? When the iPod Touch came along, it was a companion device to the rest of the iPod range. At…
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When Elon says ‘authenticate all humans’ what does that really mean?
With the purchase of Twitter seemingly going through and Elon Musk obtaining the most successful unsuccessful social media network, it got me thinking about some of his comments around it and what they may mean for users. As the platform has been plagued with bots for years now, the comment from Elon of ‘authenticate all…
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Why don’t we make smartphones like this any more? An explainer.
A friend of mine has been looking for a new smartphone for quite some time and we got into a fairly lengthly conversation about it which got to the point where I shared the image of the Verizon Droid (above) and he said ‘See, why aren’t we making this anymore?!’ It then occurred to me…
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2021 – Predictions
So, the review of the last year has been done (good thing, as there wasn’t much going on* Citation needed) it’s time for the predictions for 2021. Also, not a cop-out here, but, more than most years, this is likely to be a bit of s shaky one when it comes to the dates of…
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2020 – Year in Review
Yeah, we’re doing this… For more than half a decade now I’ve been reviewing the year and marking up my predictions. But this has been 2020 and nobody (apart from all of the people that did) could’ve predicted what came to pass. So, as is tradition, we’ll start with the specifics, however, I’m not going…






