![]() ![]() Instead of agreeing to give Apple 30 percent, Audible forces iPhone users to buy books on the web and then download them to their phones through the app. Where was the button? Answer: There is no button, because Apple requires all purchases to go through the App Store so it can take a cut. I found the book I was looking for, but I could not find the button to buy it. I first ran into trouble with the new iPhone while trying to buy an audiobook through Audible, the app I use to listen to books. If you want to stress-test your relationship with your smartphone, take it on a road trip. ![]() My dog, Babka, who loves everything, won’t even engage with the iPhone. Regular people would ask me - in an otherwise normal situation, such as waiting in line for a public bathroom - why I didn’t just buy an iPhone. The greater iPhone superiority complex persisted throughout these seven years. That was followed by a Sony Xperia Z3 Compact and a Sony Xperia Z5 Compact. I bought one of its descendents, the Droid Incredible 4G LTE. “It’s not heavy, but it’s not light, either,” one gentleman said, as he weighed the phone in his hand. I was a server at Dean’s Restaurant and Pizzeria on the Upper West Side the day it came out, and every one of my tables was cooing over one. Everyone had a fucking iPhone and everyone was so precious about it. I will be honest and admit that there was some contrarianism involved in my purchase decisions. Good phone! When you turned it back on after a flight, its location would reset for a minute to Taipei, as if it was hoping to go home. ![]() I have repped Android since I got my first smartphone, an HTC Droid Incredible in 2010. After four days with it, I’m ready to throw it in a river. ![]() After a seven-year holdout, I bought an iPhone. ![]()
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