It may be natural to want a status symbol (although that drive probably varies wildly between individuals), but I find it sad that having an iPhone is equated to status.
"Look at me in my expensive walled garden!"
Disclaimer: I also dislike Google's business practices in different ways
I recently read, and enjoyed, the Singularity Series by William Hertling. The first book is called Avogadro Corp.
It's certainly not going to win any prizes for amazing prose. And it's self-published, so the first two books could have definitely benefited from a professional editor (typos, etc). But if you're like me, and here for the interesting ideas and good understanding of tech, it's a fun little series.
It does feel this way.. but why?! Shouldn't it be getting better with more training data? Is other people's shitty typing data fucking up my experience?
Or maybe my swiping technique is getting lazy? I'm not sure, but it definitely feels worse than a few years ago.
That's quite the, ahem, third leg...