Should you upgrade your iPhone or Apple Watch?

You might want to sit it out this year ... or not!

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Leander Kahney
September 14, 2023

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— Leander Kahney, EIC.

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One more thing ...

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A word that’s sometimes used to describe me is ‘mercurial.’ Of or relating to, or born under the planet Mercury. I think the third one is the one they mean: ‘Characterized by unpredictable changeableness of mood.’ If we scroll down the thesaurus, though, we see that the antonym is ‘saturnine.’ Well what’s that? By simply double-clicking on it, we immediately look that up in the dictionary, and here it is: ‘Cold and steady in moods. Slow to act or change. Of a gloomy or surly disposition.’ Well I don’t think ‘mercurial’ is so bad after all.

— Steve Jobs, 2008.

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