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September 10, 2013
Blog: Elements
The Wonderfully Mundane New iPhone
The new look like the old iPhones. They sound like the old iPhones. This might seem disappointing, but this is an ideal state of affairs.
June 11, 2013
Blog: Elements
Breathing New Life Into the iPhone
Until yesterday, the basic design of the iPhone’s interface had not radically changed since 2007…
September 28, 2012
Blog: Borowitz Report
Apple Advises Maps Users Not to Go Anywhere
CUPERTINO (The Borowitz Report)—Apple C.E.O. Tim Cook apologized for the ongoing problems with its Apple Maps app today, recommending that until it is fixed customers “should try not to go anywhere.” “Until we get...
September 24, 2012
Blog: Photo Booth
Stefano De Luigi’s iDyssey
This past spring, the photographer Stefano De Luigi set out to retrace the Mediterranean voyage of Homer’s Odysseus, armed with only an iPhone to document his travels. In Turkey, Greece, Tunisia, and Italy, De...
September 12, 2012
Blog: Double Take
The iPhone’s New Yorker Début
“MyPhone,” by Roz Chast, marked the iPhone’s first appearance in a New Yorker cartoon. It ran on July 27, 2009: Today Apple is introducing the faster, sleeker iPhone 5. Their engineers, unfortunately, seem to have...
August 7, 2012
Blog: Culture Desk
Introducing The New Yorker’s iPhone Edition
Wonderful news! We’ve finally figured out how to take the weekly print edition of The New Yorker and fold it down to a three-inch size that fits inside your iPhone. Our new app has...
July 18, 2012
Blog: Shouts & Murmurs
When Siri Gossips About Us
“Hello, Siri.” “Hello, Siri. How is your human?” “Imperfect. Today he recorded for himself a twenty-two-minute-long voice memo which started off as a reminder to go to the gym to exercise, but quickly devolved...
May 31, 2012
Blog: Page-Turner
How I Lost My iPhone in New Orleans, or Some New Adventures of Huck Finn
I was smiling while my iPhone was being robbed. They were kids. A group of eight or maybe ten little boys on bicycles, some of them riding handlebars or standing on rear axles. To...
April 30, 2012
Blog: Culture Desk
Videos: George Hotz, The Hacker Who Raps
This week in the magazine, I write about George Hotz, who hacked the iPhone when he was seventeen, and, for his next act, figured out how to break into the supposedly ultra-secure PlayStation 3. Here...
Feb 13, 2012
The Financial Page
Blackberry Season
THE FINANCIAL PAGE about the decline of the BlackBerry…
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