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There is no print button. There is a print service, and an entry in the share menu.

Aeroplane mode and a turn-based game will outlast any setting inside the game itself.

A game designed for a thumb beats a great game wearing a virtual D-pad.

A search engine gives you a definition. A dictionary tells you how the word behaves.

A contraction timer is a stopwatch with good manners. It is not monitoring anything.

Every one of these apps is a location service with a chat attached. It is worth knowing what it is broadcasting.

Nobody remembers accurately in a consulting room. A page of dates does the remembering for you.

The counter is not the useful part. The five minutes it asks you to wait is.

The app that is best for a reading plan is rarely the one that is quickest to find a verse in a service.

A dot in the wrong city is not a broken receiver. It is a WiFi network that moved house.

A great shooter with bad touch controls is a worse game than an ordinary one designed for thumbs.

Two apps on the same phone in the same room will give different times, and neither is broken.

A theory app from the wrong country is worse than no app at all, and they all look the same in a store listing.

The apps that matter are the ones you checked last night, not the ones you open on the bank.

Everything that works in a car fails on a bike: the screen is unreadable, the speaker is inaudible and the mount is shaking the camera apart.

The aggregator tells you where it is. Only the courier's own app lets you change where it goes.

A weather app with no data shows you yesterday's forecast and does not mention it.

The genre is excellent and the monetisation is where it gets decided. Check for timers before you invest a week.

The honest version: if it is not in a bin or a backup, the odds are poor, and every app promising otherwise knows that.

It is the cable far more often than it is the battery, and it costs nothing to rule out.

Voice and data take different paths. A phone can have excellent data and no usable voice at all.

The hardware part is easy. Keeping work out of your evening is the part that needs setting up.

The good ones are a puzzle you solve before the wave arrives. The bad ones are a timer with towers drawn on it.

A brilliant multiplayer game with an empty queue is a worse game than a mediocre one with a full lobby.