I start writing tonight out of a grand sense of malaise. The events in the United States of September 10, 2025 and since have left me feeling untethered in a way that I have not felt since the last infamous date of similar timing, September 11, 2001. I just find it difficult to be motivated to pursue any of my studies of the gaming industry, history, politics, or the consumer electronics industry. I am kind of forcing myself to write right now in hopes that just forcing myself through the motions will yield some forward momentum and resolution.
My fall Apple upgrade package arrives tomorrow. A new iPhone 17 Pro Max 512GB, the AirPods Pro 3, and the new Apple Watch Series 11. I’m pretty excited. But admittedly only in the keeping-up-with-the-Jones’ sense of the matter. I am looking forward to the shift to Boss Mustang Orange. It’ll match my AirPods Max. I do look forward to the advanced noise cancellation and translation functionality of the Airpods Pro 3. But other than that, it is really just the slight feel of excitement to be in the first wave of Apple fans on a new product launch.
I made the shift last fall, but bought the iPhone 16 late. I got the MacBook Air M4 and iPad Air 13″ M3 this spring as soon as they launched. But I was pretty alone in my FOMO for those; the Apple fans that got in that pool with me were not wide-spread. So this will be the first year in a very long time that I’ve gone at launch and the first time ever since I converted to being a Apple-1st technorati.
The transition, overall, has been great. It’s just a load off to not have to worry so much about keeping up with Android and all of those products; or Windows as well. I caught a bit of homesickness this summer and broke out my foldables as I hadn’t really squeezed all of the ROI out of them that I should have. My Galaxy S23 Ultra as well. But they are mostly now being configured for trade-in devices now. And it probably means that, after having my brief summer fling with my ex, I probably need to buckle down and dive even deeper into the Apple ecosystem and really focus on using it for everything.
The clock turns. The King is Dead. Long live the King.
Rounding Off Infinity 