For basic home operations, rock-solid reliability is the only feature that matters.

I grew up shopping in dingy, cavernous, fluorescent-lit warehouses. But Apple outlets resemble high-end, big-city fashion boutiques, more than they do those Rust Belt K-Marts of my youth.

I want the Watch to show up as a system-wide audio target any time it's connected to the phone—just like standalone Bluetooth speakers and headphones do.

Users shouldn’t blame third-party for the Watch’s podcast unfriendliness. The real issue here? In the two-and-a-half years since the Watch first launched, Apple has dropped the ball on podcast support.

A device as expensive as the iPhone X serves as a negative status symbol in some circles.

When I stop delighting in the work for its own sake, I soon stop working altogether. When I let website analytics or podcast download stats serve as my primary motivation, discouragement festers, and I soon stop writing. It’s happened a half-dozen times before.

As I tally the hours, I'm struck by how much of my life is spent using gadgets.

On Friday afternoon, UPS dropped off a new toy. My thoughts after a weekend with the iPhone X.

How do your media habits compare to the average American's?

Clicking ‘read later’ isn’t about bookmarking great content. Rather, it’s my way of ignoring how little great content I actually read.