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The Twitter I Knew

By Nathan Liu in Social Media on 28 Jan 2023

I used to say: if I didn't have Twitter I wouldn't have friends at school, in the early days, when everyone told me it was really Facebook that was cool. It's where I would go to say what I needed to say, but I thought nobody wanted to hear. Mostly Apple Keynote commentary, honestly.

The Problem with Growth: From OnePlus to 1Password

By Nathan Liu in Technology on 04 Jan 2022

The first thing any company needs is a good product. Then it needs users. Then it wants more. But what happens when more is not enough?

Why Google Failed at Tablets

By Nathan Liu in Technology on 27 Jun 2020

The iPad is a great device. But it could be better with more competition. Competition that I wish would come from Google.

Yet Another iOS 14 Wishlist

By Nathan Liu in Technology on 16 Jun 2020

Most of the features I want from the next version of iOS are minor. They are fixes and improvements to things Apple already have. I don’t care about home screen widgets. iOS is past the stage of flashy. It's time to double down on making devices a pleasure to use once again.

How Smartphones Control the Police

By Nathan Liu in Politics on 01 Jun 2020

In London, there is one CCTV camera for every fourteen people. But there are at least eight million residents with smartphones. When police brutality escalates in Hong Kong, and the murder of a black man is filmed by passers by in the US, they look like our greatest defence.

Podcasts: The Internet’s Greatest Achievement

By Nathan Liu in Technology on 24 May 2020

My love of podcasts comes in waves. In a virus laden world where walks outside are the only sense of normality available, I am once again in love with the internet’s most underrated medium.

The Cloud Storage Conundrum

By Nathan Liu in Technology on 19 May 2020

If I fill my iCloud storage, I have two options: pay up or have my personal data deleted. It shouldn’t have to be this way.