Navneet Alang

Contributing Writer

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.

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Analysis

Google's Huawei ban exposes an alarming app store duopoly

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Feature

What a Game of Thrones protest petition says about modern popular culture

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Analysis

Inside Facebook's global constitutional convention

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Opinion

Facebook has two big problems. Solving one might make the other worse.

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Analysis

Why humans love technology that does literally only one thing

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Analysis

How Twitter robbed us of wonder

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Analysis

Algorithms have gotten out of control. It's time to regulate them.

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Analysis

Don't extend iMessage to Android. Make a universal messaging standard instead.

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Analysis

Apple used to offer only the best. Now it offers everything.

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Analysis

Why Apple's company culture could torpedo its streaming service

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Analysis

How Microsoft can make 'Windows Lite' a success

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Analysis

Why the foldable phone will flop

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Opinion

How YouTube broke itself

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Analysis

Why Apple always has the last laugh

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Analysis

Facebook is slowly gutting Snapchat

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Analysis

Why no one will own video games in the future

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Analysis

Why iPhones will only get more expensive

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Analysis

The biggest change at CES

Analysis

How Apple's business model backfired

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Analysis

Why 2019 will be a turning point for tech

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Analysis

The year we lost faith in technology

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Analysis

What Windows Lite means for the future of Microsoft

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Analysis

Apple is finally paying for its hubris

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Analysis

The misguided attempts to take down the iPad Pro

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Analysis

Apple is trying to kill the laptop

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Analysis

Why the iPhone XR is Apple's most important phone

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Analysis

In praise of the worst phone on the market

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Analysis

Why Google can't hack it as a hardware company

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Analysis

Is Microsoft out of ideas?

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Analysis

Mark Zuckerberg is going to ruin Instagram

Analysis

The little social networks that couldn't

Apple Announcement Event with iPhone models

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Analysis

The real reason Apple is now selling 7 different iPhones at once

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Analysis

Shape-shifting is the future of smartphones

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Opinion

Facebook is a failed experiment

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Analysis

Big tech's narrowing focus

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Analysis

The Samsung Note 9: Bigger, badder, and boring