Never Own an iPhone Again
Apple is launching a leasing program with Klarna, and the question isn't whether it costs more. It's that six years on the same iPhone works out to fifteen dollars a month, and Apple would rather you never ran that number.
Remember the place you and your friends went to get away from everything?
Mine wasn't even a basement. But it's where we played games, talked about nothing and forgot about the world for a while. I'm in my 40s now, with kids, a running habit and more worries than I had then. This is where I write about all of it, review the games I grew up with, and build things that make life a little easier.
Everything is NOT an Xbox
Microsoft bet that everything could be an Xbox, and as a PlayStation owner I was exactly who the bet was built for. Now they're resetting — and I have some thoughts on why it didn't pay off, and why the timing of the reset worries me.
GTA 6's Price Tag Is a Preview, Not a Rule
GTA 6 will charge $80 and people will buy it. That doesn't mean your favorite franchise gets to — and the trick that's making the next console generation possible might not survive it.
The Trade-In Was the Point
Sony is ending physical PlayStation discs in 2028. I still buy most of my games on disc — not to hoard them, but because selling them back is how I kept new games affordable. That lever is what I'm about to lose.