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BTTR Roundup #32: Apple's huge week of updates matched by mid-range smartphone announcements
Mobile World Congress feels like it has been a lot quieter this year.
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The BTTR Roundup is a weekly collection of the biggest and most interesting technology news and reviews, with a bit of fun commentary thrown in.
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BTTR Roundup #31: How much would it cost to access every streaming service in Australia?
I'm going to need a lot more paying subscribers here if they keep launching streaming services.
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BTTR Roundup #30: The Apple iPhone 16e is a phone made for Apple's business goals, not consumers
The 16e is designed to make Apple Intelligence available on all Apple's phones, whether you want it or not.
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BTTR Roundup #29: Streaming was meant to save home entertainment. It survived long enough to become the villain
The arrival of Netflix just under 10 years ago was such a happy occasion. But 10 years later, the streaming industry is overpriced, disjointed and aggressively anti-consumer. It's time to fight back.
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BTTR Roundup #28: Why the Switch 2 is already a success (before it even launches)
With massive sales momentum, backward compatibility, and sky-high anticipation, the Switch 2 is set to dominate before it even hits store shelves.
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BTTR Roundup #27: Don't be tricked by DeepSeek AI – It's still not going to improve your life
The biggest tech story this week was the massive impact of Chinese AI firm DeepSeek. But is it more than just the next stage of the hype cycle?
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BTTR Roundup #26: Is AI killing off tech innovation?
The biggest selling point for any flagship phone right now is a technology that does not know what is real and what is not. This is a problem.
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BTTR Roundup #25: The Nintendo Switch 2 is an iterative upgrade, and I am definitely okay with that
With one two-minute trailer, Nintendo has me excited to play Switch again, and I'm not 100% sure why.
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BTTR Roundup #24: CES 2025 unleashed AI overload: Do we really need it in everything?
CES 2025 has been a big week of gadget announcements and product updates, many of which include AI. But we should stop and ask ourselves if this is what we really want.
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BTTR Roundup #23: Welcome to 2025. Are you ready for more AI in your tech this year?
We're not even a week into 2025 and AI promises to work its way into everything. I'm not ready.
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BTTR Roundup #22: 99 reviews later, 2024 was an epic year
I take a slightly deeper dive into the numbers of the year that was, as I look ahead to 2025.
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BTTR Roundup #21: I reviewed one of the best products of the year this week
As the year comes to a close, I'm in a mad rush to try and finish off a bunch of reviews before New Year's Eve, and finally wrote up one of my favourites.
