Last Wednesday, I stupidly dropped my iPhone in the bath, and my life has sort of spiraled almost out of control.
Batteries are the most dramatic object. Other things stop working or they break, But Batteries... They Die.
I think I was the third person in the world to get a Kindle, and I hated it from the minute I got it.
When a device as simple as a door has to come with an instruction manual—even a one-word manual—then it is a failure, poorly designed.
We're beautiful devices. The devices work well; we're all experts in what we do. But when the mechanism fails, those failures can tell you a lot about how the mind works.
I had a Kindle for a brief while, but I dropped it in the ocean, and that was the end of electronic reading for me.
Electronic devices dislike me. There is never a day when something isn't ailing.
Everything that has a computer in will fail. Everything in your life, from a watch to a car to a radio, to an iPhone, it will fail if it have a computer in it.
The Kindle is the most successful electronic book-reading tablet so far, but that's not saying much; Silicon Valley is littered with the corpses of e-book reader projects.
I would warn against holsters with devices for quick-draw. Devices always fail when you need them most.
