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User story: Hello Grandma!
The waterside has a magnetic draw. It pulls people down to the quay: young and old, tourists and locals alike. By 7am on a warm Saturday morning in July you will already encounter a diverse cast of characters. There are the dog walkers, of cour…
User story: the shattered image
“Oh yeah, that went a long time ago,” the dad said when I asked him about the spider’s web of cracks spreading out from the corner of the iPad’s screen. He seemed resigned to the fate of the expensive tablet, as if its demise had been inevitable …
User story: the daughters, Minecraft and aeroplane mode
British children are enjoying their half-term holiday this week. Without the school run, the roads are quieter in the mornings. The trains from my station on the Norfolk coast, however, are busier with families heading to London and Cambridge for …
User story: over 60 and reading under the covers
They were a party of five ladies, all attired in the sort of sensible, outdoor clothing one acquires from advertisements in the back pages of a Sunday supplement. All were over 60 and their leisurely, mid-morning stop at a countryside cafe suggest…
User story: early learning the hidden costs of tablets
“Are you playing a game?” I looked up to find a boy of about 6 years old, in his school uniform and still wearing his rucksack, reaching out towards my iPad. His sister, a year or two younger, looked on with equal curiosity. I’d been absorbed in…
User story: typing tablets & coffee house friends
Her computer, a Microsoft Surface, was the least colourful thing about her. She wore blue jeans, a bright turquoise sweater, luminous pink plastic wrist band and a deep purple neck warmer. I’d say she was 24 years old.
Sitting at the narrow wo…
User story: the airport & the lipstick charger
It was a white Samsung Galaxy S4 and she held it in both hands, typing with her thumbs. Her friend, sitting across the lunch table, talked non-stop, but nothing caused the Galaxy user to raise her eyes from the glowing rectangular touchscreen.
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User story: the Postmistress and her Lumia
It speaks to the modest success of Windows Phone that to see one in the wild still feels rare.
I walked into the local Post Office the other day and, amid the clutter of parcels behind the counter, there it was: a Lumia 925 in grey. It belonge…