I recently watched a video from Unbox Therapy where the guy explains why you should not buy the iPhone X.

His main reasons are:

1. Face unlock is not as good as Touch ID, it is not "enjoyable" according to him.
2. The phone is double as expensive as a supposedly similar phone, but not twice as good.

Some days I question the very roots of logical reasoning. It is said that if everybody is not normal, then there is no such thing as being normal. Ergo, the very definition of normal is based on an average of the sum of the behaviour of all people. Thus people define what is normal, people do not fall into a category we created called normal.

So if a client tells me this:

You know, that's why I said right in the beginning, I said: Tell me what I am not going to get. And everyone said "Ah you can't do it like that, I've got caught again, you've got to spec it". Now, I am in such a quandry now I don't know what I am getting.

A recent Slashdot article claims that the markup on the new iPhone X is way too much.

Be that as it may, this comment from a reader made my day as it is so true:

A Plumber Goes on a Call to Fix a Leaky Faucet...

When he arrives at the customer's house, he inspects the faucet, installs a new rubber gasket, and gives the customer a bill for $100.

"This is outrageous," says the customer. "I demand an itemized bill."

The plumber quickly writes up an itemized bill:

Rubber Gasket: $0.50

Knowing where to put it: $99.50

A couple of months ago I decided to purchase a NEC MultiSync PA322UHD-2 monitor from B&H in the US. The monitor ticked all the right boxes. But when the unit arrived I was greeted with a defect in the panel. There was a dark spot appearing in front of the RGB sub pixels that was quite annoying. The spot was definitely behind the glass layer, but it was not a pixel defect as the area moved relative with your viewpoint.

I reached out to NEC technical support and after sending through a photo of the issue and my invoice, they RMA-ed the unit. Nothing out of the ordinary so far. But the journey was far from over.

The replacement unit was actually worse. It too had the same defect, but in a different location on the panel. It also had additional spots. So back it went and another unit was sent. Same thing - if you were keeping count, this is now unit number 3.