Why Scooting Through Berlin Made Me Appreciate the iPhone
I want to clarify that I have always been one of those people who hates those things. Visit any big city, and they’re literally everywhere. If an e-scooter isn’t hammering past you on the pavement, it’s either clogging up the road in front of your car or strewn across the path after coming into contact with a reveller the night before. However, in Berlin, those instances are, as one might expect, few and far between. The rentable e-transport scene in Germany’s capital is efficient, and reliable, and it just works.
I’m not one to hold back on my opinion of the iPhone. It is, without question, one of the most impressive pieces of tech I use and rely on every day. It makes running my business easier, it makes taking photos of literally anything a joy, and instances of it letting me down are so infrequent I genuinely can’t remember the last time I had to restart it. Despite this, I’m one of the many tech commentators who has moaned rather too incessantly about the lack of iPhone innovation in recent years.
That’s unfair, as I noted recently. It might have taken me ten years to work it out, but one of the greatest strengths of the iPhone is that it doesn’t try too hard. It just gets the job done. The feature set is iterated at a pace that has given us, arguably, the most stable and capable smartphone on the market. The iPhone 15 will be revealed next week, and it’ll be much of the same, save the rumoured smaller bezels, USB-C charging, and another camera system bump.
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