Apps & services

He tried it for meditation but struggled with the short sessions, and later realised he did not need the app.

Rated a 2 out of 10 fail: an app that has you throw your phone in the air, quickly banned by Apple.

Impressed by the lock screen overhaul and smarter features, though he thinks much of it is catching up with Android and sharing could go wr…

Quietly getting smarter, with live translation and editable text from photos that he finds pretty cool.

Handy read-later app that saves ad-free offline versions of articles from any app and can read them aloud.

Gives non-Apple devices an AirDrop-style way to send files wirelessly between Android, Mac and Windows.

Android app for finding AirTags that he sees as largely useless because it needs manual scanning and does not run in the background.

He calls Lazy Lions a mass-produced, computer-generated cash grab with no soul.

He explains it as an example of NFTs giving owners a sense of belonging, though he later calls the apes ugly and the market a bubble.

He calls buying virtual land on Next Earth ridiculous, since it proves ownership only on one of countless platforms.

He sees Ubisoft Quartz as a way for Ubisoft to take a cut, with NFT items that can't carry over between games.

Arun cites Diet Bitcoin as an earlier Escobar coin that crashed once the owners started selling.

Engaging local anonymous app that became toxic through bullying and hate speech.

A $15 billion pyramid scheme posing as a cryptocurrency, his worst fail at 10 out of 10.

Microsoft bloated Skype with unwanted features and let Zoom overtake it, earning 7 out of 10.

Microsoft's Twitch rival failed because viewers wouldn't switch platforms, even after paying huge sums for Ninja and Shroud.

An unofficial scam coin that crashed to nearly zero, rated 9 out of 10.

A tense, hugely popular live quiz game that collapsed once it couldn't fund its prizes.

Impressive privacy-first Android alternative with thoughtful features, but limited to Pixel phones and unlikely to trouble Google.

He sees it as basically Android or LineageOS with a few apps swapped, pitched as more revolutionary than it is.

Condescending house-based desktop that made everything slower, 3 out of 10 fail.

Good-looking but rushed and demanding, with poor performance and compatibility, rated 7 out of 10 fail.

He loves games but sees Apple Arcade as a missed opportunity because it lacks console-quality titles.

Considered technologically superior and holds 20% of his small portfolio.