On using Uber every day for six months

For the last six months or so I’ve been taking Uber (or Lyft, whichever is cheapest at that moment) to go from work to home at the end of the day. The ride is short — just a few miles — and usually takes about 15 minutes. The cost lands mostly between $8 — 10…

The iPhone 7 Plus is my only computer

OK, that’s not entirely true — my non-work MacBook Pro is an amazing machine for backing up my pocket computer.

iPhone-only?

We’re closer than you might think

Have you had the “AI talk” with your kids?

The jobs are going away…and this time it’s different

The problem, in a word, is specialization, or rather the dearth of it with respect to most humans and what they do for a living. You have a…

I was wrong about the AirPods

Sort of

Let’s be honest, Apple headphones suck. They always have. I can’t remember the last time I even removed them from the iPhone box. It’s probably been nine years. Seriously — every time I sold my phone it surprised the buyer that the…

My home screen has begun to ossify

After years of experimenting, my home screen is becoming boring, and I couldn’t be happier

I don’t miss my Apple Watch

Nope, not even a little bit

First things first: I’m a huge fan of high-end mechanical watches. Though I very rarely talk about it publicly online or even in meatspace (mainly because it’s hard to do without people you don’t know…

Thoughts on the iPhone X

I tend to not do these sorts of things anymore, because, well, it all feels a bit me-too these days, with every Tom, Dick, and Harry dropping their opinions. (There were a lot fewer of us writing about smartphones in 2003.) But, it’s been 10 years since the first iPhone came out, and…

On going LTE-only

Not too long ago AT&T changed the “unlimited” data plans that some of us were grandfathered into from 5GB to 22GB. That’s right, unlimited meant 5GB, after which your connection would be throttled in some unpredictable way and you’d curse a little (or a lot) about how it was 201x and you’re still…