Gear Post 2026

Tynan · 3 Feb 2026

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Our reading
Watchmakers today would build GPS-synced, solar-charged smartwatches, just as watchmakers in the 1800s used the best technology available to them.

Their wordsI believe this is the watch great watchmakers would make today, given that back in the 1800s they were using all available technology.
Our reading
Preferring iPhones for their blue message bubbles is a matter of social conditioning rather than the phones' actual merits.

Their wordsYou still have to have to fight against the Apple blue-bubble brainwashing, but once you do you'll never go back.

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