The new iPhone’s primary sales spiel compares its precision engineering to a finely crafted watch. It’s an interesting comparison, given that the chief attribute of 18th and 19th century watches was that their fine precision and high build quality gifted them a kind of timelessness. They were built as objects to exist outside time, arbiters rather than subjects. Heirlooms to pass to your children and grandchildren, this was the idea of a well-made watch.
Here Gruber attests to the quality of the new iPhone by figuratively (and most likely literally) trashing the iPhone 4. Two years ago, on the release of that earlier product, he gave similar praise, saying it “feels like a valuable artifact”. Now it is “a brick”.
The Shining was the greatest portrait of an unraveling relationship that old genius bastard Stanley Kubrick ever made — until Eyes Wide Shut, that is, which rendered the Nicholson-Duvall flick an unwatchable piece of shit.