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A good game for a four year old is one where every tap does something and no tap costs anything.

The question is not whether the game is good. It is whether the game wants fifty hours or wants you back every day forever.

Aeroplane mode and a turn-based game will outlast any setting inside the game itself.

A search engine gives you a definition. A dictionary tells you how the word behaves.

The app that is best for a reading plan is rarely the one that is quickest to find a verse in a service.

The genre is excellent and the monetisation is where it gets decided. Check for timers before you invest a week.

A weather app with no data shows you yesterday's forecast and does not mention it.

The apps that matter are the ones you checked last night, not the ones you open on the bank.

Two apps on the same phone in the same room will give different times, and neither is broken.

The apps that help in a power cut are the ones already downloaded. Afterwards there is no way to get them.

No signal is easy to design for. One bar is the case that breaks most apps.

One expires downloads after 48 hours in some cases. Knowing which is the whole article.

One works with no signal. The other is useless without one, and better when it has one.

One has better discovery. The other has every live version, remix and cover ever uploaded.

A puzzle you can pay to skip was never a puzzle.

If the game punishes you for not opening it, it is managing you rather than the other way round.

The test is whether closing the app mid-round costs you anything.

One phone, two thumbs at each end. It works better than it sounds.

Half the games marketed as offline still phone home before the first level.

Your local library probably lends audiobooks to your phone for nothing.

Your phone may have a real FM radio in it that uses no data at all.

If your voice arrives late in the headphones, no app setting will save the performance.

One hour of high-definition video is roughly three gigabytes. That is the whole problem.

The gallery app plays what the hardware decoder supports. Everything else needs a real player.