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Apple of my eye lets me down

An email advocating an iPhone update has arrived from Apple.

It arrived a few weeks ago, to be more precise. But I have been saving it, unopened and unread, for a New Year morale-booster.

There must be those to whom January is either an active pleasure or a neutral irrelevance, and to them I doff my cap. To me, the New Year is a torment of bleakness and despair; a waking midwinter nightmare when the Godfearing take to slippers and dressing gown, and shuffle

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