Yesterday I wrote about my first impressions of the Samsung Galaxy Note 7 after a few days of use. I thought the phone was great, but really overpriced and overrated (by the myriad of “this is the best phone ever” reviews out there). I wanted to elaborate further on the overrated bit, specifically the Note 7’s camera. For some reason, most reviewers are declaring (and have done so since last year) that Samsung’s shooter is the king of the smartphone photography, that no one else comes close. I am no pro photographer, but I don’t believe that. To me, smartphone photography have kind of plateaued, and every flagship phone can take great photos, including much cheaper Chinese phones. To prove it, I went around town snapping pics with the Note 7, Huawei P9 Plus, OnePlus 3, and Xiaomi Mi 5. As you look through the images, please keep in mind that the latter two phones cost less than half of the Note 7 (while rocking the same processor with equal or superior RAM).

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I was recently emailing with a dear friend who I only get to see about once every five years. Our visits are few and far between — not because we live in different cities (she is in New York and I’m in Boston) — but because we work in completely separate industries, and I suspect that we both suffer from the “I wish the week had 40 more hours” mentality. One day soon, I am going to buy a farm and work from home and send emails (or postcards) to friends inviting them to “come see the new lambs that were born last week.” Until then, I do whatever it takes to squeeze in as much time as I can with as many inspiring people as I know. And when I can’t be with them in person, I manage to keep up with their major and minor life events through social media. Last week, I logged onto Facebook and typed in this friend’s name, suddenly wondering if she was around as I began planning for a trip to Manhattan. When I couldn’t find her on my Friends List, my first thought was: Maybe she unfriended me? (My self-esteem is impressive like that.) A quick search of the entire Facebook and all of our mutual friends confirmed that this individual could not be found. She wasn’t there. She left. She got out.

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Apple has released an unexpected update to iOS which deals with something that is rare in Apple circles – a zero-day exploit of iOS that would allow a handset to be remotely jailbroken and run malicious code.

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