Arnav's Musings

The new iPhone SE (2020) While the Coronavirus pandemic (aka COVID-19) has stopped us in our tracks and forced most of the world to retreat to the safety of their homes, technology companies continue to launch new products to entice their customers to upgrade from older devices. One such company is Apple Inc., which launched a brand new iPhone this month. The 2020 version of the iPhone SE (Special Edition) might not look like a "new" phone to the uninitiated, but it is being billed by reviewers as the most important smartphone launch of the year. Some of them are even bestowing this device with lofty titles such as "Best Budget Smartphone of 2020". Under normal circumstances, this would not attract much attention (except maybe at the lower end of the market). But then again, the situation we are currently in is as far removed from "normal" as possible and many people looking for a cheap new smartphone may be swayed into considering or even buyin

Quirky (adjective: characterized by peculiar or unexpected traits) Happy new year everyone! The last two years have been quite busy as I graduated from the MBA program at Schulich School of Business, found my first job in Canada at Ceridian, and finally a new home in York Mills, Toronto. It has been a wonderful learning experience during the 1.5 years that I've spent as a Specialist in Competitive and Market Intelligence. I'm interested to see what this year has in store for me, and hope you are as excited as I am about what I believe will be a wonderful decade ahead. I'm now bringing my blog out of a long, but self-imposed, hiatus. I will try and stick to my plan of writing one blog article every month in 2020. As always, these articles will focus on anything that comes to my mind, and could be inspired by current events, technology trends, daily observations, etc. For February 2020, I've chosen a topic that will surely make you sit up and think. Below is a li