Can we stop with the app updates please?

Rachel Cormack asks if the endless app iterations are really necessary, or if we’ve simply become so desensitised to novelty that social media has reached the point of no return.

I always thought I was reasonably tech savvy, but the speed at which app updates are coming is making me feel a little, dare I say it, technologically challenged.

Just as we get a handle on things, those handles are pried from our hands, updated with shiny new bells and whistles and then given back – only now, they’re really hard to hold.

We all just worked out that Boomeranging yourself holding booze was the cool thing to do, and now there’s a new stop-motion camera for Insta stories. I need a new app to tell me what’s new in apps.

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