
Navneet Alang
Navneet Alang is a technology and culture writer based out of Toronto. His work has appeared in The Atlantic, New Republic, Globe and Mail, and Hazlitt.
Latest articles by Navneet Alang

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Why no one will own video games in the futureThe Explainer On the sea change in the gaming industry
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Why iPhones will only get more expensiveThe Explainer The evidence is already starting to trickle out
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The biggest change at CESThe Explainer All of a sudden, there's a lot of sharing
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How Apple's business model backfired
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Why 2019 will be a turning point for techThe Explainer Innovation to watch for in the year to come
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The year we lost faith in technologyThe Explainer 2018 was the year tech companies became the enemy
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What Windows Lite means for the future of MicrosoftThe Explainer Can a new OS save the company's consumer tech ambitions?
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Apple is finally paying for its hubrisThe Explainer It's hard not to get the sense that Apple is Icarus, and the wax holding its wings together is starting to melt
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The misguided attempts to take down the iPad ProThe Explainer Who cares if it can't do high-end video editing?
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Apple is trying to kill the laptopThe Explainer The new MacBook Air is finally here. But clues suggest the iPad is Apple's vision for the future of computing.
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Why the iPhone XR is Apple's most important phoneThe Explainer Reviewers are obsessed, and for good reason
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In praise of the worst phone on the marketThe Explainer The crappy Palm phone is exactly what tech needs
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Why Google can't hack it as a hardware companyThe Explainer The company can launch all the new products it wants, but until it finds a way to truly inspire consumers, its ambitions as a hardware company will likely go unfulfilled
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Is Microsoft out of ideas?The Explainer Its latest lackluster Surface event makes it difficult to be optimistic
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Mark Zuckerberg is going to ruin InstagramThe Explainer It's sad, but true
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The little social networks that couldn't
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The real reason Apple is now selling 7 different iPhones at onceThe Explainer The iPhone lineup is bigger than ever. Here's why that's a great idea.
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Shape-shifting is the future of smartphonesThe Explainer Our devices need to become more flexible — literally
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Facebook is a failed experimentopinion It's time to admit the platform is unfixable
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Big tech's narrowing focusThe Explainer How the tyrants of tech are trying to free you from the tyranny of choice
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The Samsung Note 9: Bigger, badder, and boringThe Explainer What the overpowered new device says about the bleak future of smartphones
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How Google's Chromebook is forcing Apple and Microsoft to improveThe Explainer The Chromebook just works. Why don't other laptops?
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The future is the new XboxThe Explainer Want to see where technology is going? Check out the next iteration of the console.
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How tech encoded the culture warsopinion Is it time for big tech to take responsibility for what is said on their platforms?
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