The state of Android tablets: Google need to either fix their injured tablet...
The Middle Ground on Android Tablets: Only one [tablet optimised feature] remains in Android Lollipop: the ‘UI Framework for creating great tablet apps’ that was released in 3.0. Now, the default...
View ArticleRequiem for a Banner Ad: Content Blockers as a Force for Good
If we want writers to make great work, vloggers to challenge our wit and then inventors to create new places for us to praise and critique them, somehow we need to pay. They need incentive because...
View ArticleiPhone Socialism
I recently bought a £999 phone, and so did many other socialists, Labour voters and sceptics of capitalism. The launch came shortly before it was revealed that Apple were intentionally moving money...
View Article280 Characters is Bad, but it’s the Users That Will Kill Twitter
Twitter is losing its character while gaining 140. Twitter has a problem with Nazis and the President of the United States and instead it chose to double its character limit in a move few really...
View ArticleiPhone X: A Buttonless Future
Or not, according to Fastcodesign on a website that has an email sign up graphic overlapping its articles: You’re looking at a UX disaster, the result of eliminating what is probably the simplest, most...
View ArticleFacebook Isn’t Listening to You, But Delete Their App Anyway
WIRED ask if conspiracy theories about the Facebook app are true. Spoiler: they’re not. Feasibility, ubiquity, and efficacy: Those filters demolish almost every Facebook conspiracy theory you’ll ever...
View ArticleThe Best Laptop Ever Made
Marco Arment named the 2012-2015 MacBook Pro as the best in history and the pinnacle of Steve Jobs’ vision for the Mac: Everything else about this machine was an upgrade: thinner, lighter, faster,...
View ArticleA Letter to my MP on Net Neutrality
Mr Prisk, You may be aware of heated debate in the US over Net Neutrality, with the FCC threatening to end this valuable principle. I’m proud and relieved that the UK has Net Neutrality, and am fearful...
View ArticleApple’s HomePod is DOA
Bloomberg reveal the torrid and dithering development of Apple’s latest delayed audio device: Apple Inc. audio engineers had been working on an early version of the HomePod speaker for about two years...
View ArticleApple and Greed
It is becoming increasingly hard to justify Apple’s high price points. I have always responded to those claiming that Macs are overpriced by comparing them to the competition, lauding their reliability...
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