Karen’s Weekly Technology Hits Review

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The iPhone 12 Pro is a phone I would love to own. A Samsung S21 Ultra is the alternative choice for me. They are both out of my price range.

Instead, I bought a great Lebara (which uses the Vodafone network) for £2.99 per month for three months which then goes up to a £5.99 SIM-only deal. I get 5GB of data, unlimited texts and calls, plus 100 international minutes per month.

Compared to my current Vodafone deal of £10 per month for 3GB, unlimited texts and 250 minutes of calls, Lebara wins hands down. Especially as Vodafone charges 35p per minute when I go over the 250-minute limit. They didn’t put that in the Big Bundle Offer advertising!

The above is a long way of introducing you to Selim Furkan Gul’s story about Apple’s failures People tend to not like ridiculous prices and products that don’t fulfil their promise. They do love the way the product looks though.

Despite all this success, Apple, like any company, has experienced various failures and decline in its history. While going through these processes, some of its products were exposed to harsh criticism by users and technology critics.

Following on from failures, let’s look at this article from Douglas Pilarski, which lists some superb ideas for how businesses can change to reuse what already exists. Opportunities abound for entrepreneurs to help save the planet.

Are humans degrading the earth? If you watch television or scour the internet, you get a lot of information trying to convince you we are. There are charts, graphs, thermal tables, videos, photos, and even political movements to influence your thinking. We hear it so much. We believe it.

Borut’s intriguing article has prompted me to watch the documentary film The Biggest Little Farm. I don’t often watch documentaries. This writer’s comparison of technology and nature ecosystems intrigued me. I’m looking forward to reading more of his work. The film, by the way, is wonderful.

I applied for a CISO role with a FinTech company. The CEO of a company asked me an interesting question. “What percentage of the available resources would you dedicate to persecuting and capturing perpetrators if a hack occurred?”

Like Nicole Maharaj, I loathe notifications. Fortunately, I don’t get any because I choose to turn the darn things off. Annoying sneaky little blighters.

In this day and age, notifications are a way for apps on the phone to get any traction. For me, I have always had a pet peeve over that red circle above the apps when there are notifications. I absolutely loathe when I see multiple red circles on my screen. This means that even with the many times I dismiss notifications on the lock screen of my phone, they eventually complete their job, regardless.

Self-driving cars might get me back into owning a car. But for the moment there’s no rush as Stan Hill indicates there's a few phases of transition to weather first.

Autonomous Vehicles, or self-driving cars, are everywhere in the news these days. From Google’s Waymo to Microsoft-backed Cruise, there are many future-facing companies out there who are sinking billions into developing these next-generation vehicles.

Star Read

Sumera Rizwan has provided a superb read, which I thought most worthy of sharing as the star read this week.

Electric cars are fantastic news for the environment. I am stunned and delighted the UK has a plan to have banned petrol and diesel cars by 2030!

This is an excellent article full of fascinating facts and figures. I enjoyed reading it very much.

The electric vehicles lost their charm against the internal combustion engine which proved much cheaper and efficient for private vehicle owners. Although they were still used as the form of loading and freight equipment and public transport like rail vehicles as the general public preferred gasoline cars, the advancement in electrical vehicle faced a sharp decline.

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