Read #1. In pursuit of decent coffee.
Read #2. Britain is a developing country…
Read #3. The price of perfection.
“I want a glass screen, and I want it perfect in six weeks.”
Cupertino, 2007. Steve Jobs had been carrying a prototype of the first iPhone in his pocket - and had found his keys were scratching the plastic. “I won’t sell a product that gets scratched,” he insisted.
So instead Apple built one that shattered.
Ten years later the iPhone X launched as a device so fragile it is at the edge of usability. Tech review site Squaretrade called it the “most breakable phone ever”. 49% of all iPhone owners have broken their screens, and not once but an average of two times each. And the cost of repair is astronomical: out-of-warranty, a new iPhone X screen will set you back $279, and repairing the glass back of the phone, an extraordinary $549.
Read #4. Ghosts on the glacier.
Read #5. It was 2002, and we were Unbwogable.
It was 2002, and we were unbwogable. Half of our fathers were in Sierra Leone on United Nations peacekeeping missions, and the other half were stomping around our houses swearing that President Moi’s leaving would bring us all peace. It was also the year we learned our fathers were, in fact, bwogable, but that was incidental