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Title: Modern Dad's ode to the iPhone 8
Post by: HCK on October 24, 2017, 04:05:20 pm
Modern Dad's ode to the iPhone 8

It's been real, Apple. But the iPhone 8 is a nod to the past, and the future beckons.

This isn't about some Android guy using an iPhone. There's plenty of that out there on the internet, and who gives a crap what I think, right? I am, however, a professional. (A professional what? I dunno. You make up your own mind.) I've used and reviewed plenty of phones that I didn't particularly care to use. The point isn't whether I like it. The point is to see it for what it is — a computer in our pockets that does things. Or not.

And actually, the iPhone has me pretty excited these days. Not because I think it's particularly better than it was a year ago. Because it's not. For all the whiz-bang camera features and silly "Bionic" names on processors — remember when Apple didn't worry about such trivialities? — it's an iterative year for the mainline iPhone.


  The iPhone 8 is a thousand-dollar salute to the past 10 years. And that's all.


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