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Alex Dobie
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Moving pictures on glowing rectangles. Executive Producer for ( ) | Prev: Exec. Editor
United Kingdomvalnetinc.comJoined May 2011

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Like any Huawei phone, it's hard to look at the Mate Xs2 and not imagine what might've been possible without the restrictions on the company. Even in its current form, this is a compelling foldable that shows there's more to this category than just Samsung youtu.be/3QuySgfSkeI
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🤔 hmm I wonder which region will get the bad chip this time let's check the article 👀
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Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 based model would still launch in most markets, though androidpolice.com/samsung-bosses
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you can make your own using things that came in the box with your iPhone X
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By the way @alexdobie, a close friend just reached out to ask if I knew where to buy that dongle. Seems your Photoshop skills are too good 👀. He seriously thought it was real 🤣
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The Royal Wii, if you will
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Amazing. @nypost reports the Queen was once given a golden Nintendo Wii (what a present!)... this video shows what actually happened to it twitter.com/cr0ybot/status…
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This is terrible, you'll never meet a harder working team than these people. Hire them!! Writers, editors, badass people that deserved better. Find them here:
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A reminder, as @futureplc just laid off its entire copy editing team and other key roles, that Future Plc has among the highest CEO-to-median-employee pay disparities in UK-owned media. twitter.com/hayatohuseman/…
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Some great people, some former colleagues (apols I don’t know the full list) as well as it seems others from across Future have been laid off. If you’re hiring talent there is definitely some out there (Miles can probably help more than me)
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Genuinely appreciate everyone's kind words and thoughts. Several amazing team members were surprisingly laid off today.
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I'm also part of the layoffs from Future today, unfortunately. I loved my time working at AC, and everyone I had the pleasure of working with! Anyways I'll be on the prowl for a new gig in games/tech journ., so if anyone has any freelance/job deets to share, I'd appreciate it!
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Jen is fantastic and incredibly knowledgeable and you should hire her
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Don't know how to begin this. I've been laid off from Future and today was my last day. If anyone has work opportunities in games journalism or games PR, please reach out.
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Talented editor you should hire! 👇
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Ok so in personal news: this week was my last at Future. I’ve been laid off. I’m still processing emotions and have other tweets planned, but that means I’m looking for any work, FT or freelance, in editing/games or culture journalism. DMs are open ❤️
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And (unlike 3.5mm jack for example) there are v permanent disadvantages of having no physical SIM option in an esim-only future. E.g. fewer roaming options & potentially being SOL when you need to provision a new SIM. As Adam points out current esim+SIM provides the best of both
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The only argument I can come up with is around UX and how you shouldn't need to break your beautiful phone open to start using it. In an ideal world esim is a more elegant experience. In the real world though carrier websites are involved and things often don't work.
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I haven't seen a single argument for the removal of the SIM tray in the iPhone 14 that can't be argued against by pointing out the iPhone 13 still supported eSIM too. Every benefit of eSIM was still accessible while offering consumers the ability to choose.
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yeah I can see this being a US thing, so carriers can easily fleece you w/ roaming fees, but uhh lol good luck with this in Asia. I suspect models for China etc will still have physical SIM
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So wait.. how am I supposed to travel with an iPhone now? Meaning.. do what I do every week. I don’t wanna pay for roaming fees. What if I wanna use a foreign SIM? Like WTF!
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fixed the middle square for u
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XDA's Apple Event Bingo Card 2022
"What could possibly make the upcoming #AppleEvent even more exciting" we hear you say, well how about another round of XDA's Apple Event Bingo!✨ This will be a thread, so like, retweet, and come back at the start of the live stream to join in. #Apple #iPhone #iPhone14Pro
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big Apple news today:
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Quake 1 has been ported to the Apple Watch, and you can play it right now. The developer was so preoccupied with whether or not they could port it, they didn’t stop to think if they actually should. xda-developers.com/quake-1-apple-
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