Why should I buy an iphone to my teenager?

Yeah, the 'everything works out of the box' is a function of Apple not letting anyone look tinker the bonnet and this how they control their market. Can see why it's popular (as long as you ignore the $s).

I suspect the alcohol/smartphone comparison is valid. Maybe better to allow in great moderation at an age when the functions are useful, and to gradually relax, so the pluses and minuses have been understood through useage and appropriate help and parental controls.

I grew up chained to PCs for gaming, over clocking, doing all sorts of tricks to get shit to work.

I don’t miss any of that at all.

Same now with the steam deck. Don’t get me wrong, I adore that thing, absolutely adore it, life changing even, but god I don’t miss the faff that comes with getting stuff working smoothly.

Ha, reminds me of the time I lost it with someone on a committee who 'forwarded' an email, which the committee discussed. I only found out when the original sender forwarded me the original version of the email, after we'd sent him a contract to be signed, including the crucial bit later deleted that quoted his fee as "£800 in cash, or £1100 by cheque". Fortunately he'd opened himself up to investigation by HMRC if he complained, and the contract was never signed by either party.

TBH, I think things have got slightly slicker in the last 5-10 years, and Android and Windows add-ons aren't nearly as likely to feck-up the system unintentionally. as they were once. I remember rooting my first Android tablet just to be able to plug in an SD card.

Aside from that being nonsense, it's fairly trivial to doctor most formats. It's just a question of how convenient it is.

There's quite a clear divide in my industry on whether you change/tweak CVs or not (or if you correct their mistakes etc or not).

I am firmly in the "don't change it one bit" camp.

I'll follow up via email

They still aren't solutions. And if the workaround is not to do something you kind of have to do, it's not even a workaround it is just annoying.

To your other point, if 90% of people use the same format, the other 19 are irrelevant. It's like the one twat who insists on using open office out of principle and then complains the formatting is all screwed up.

I'm in professional services. We don't get many emails from Hotmail. But when we do, or when I've sent emails attached to emails (not work related or confidential I might add) to basic webmail, I have not had problems other than with the iPhone. Probably because they are all the same underneath and Apple have to try quite hard to figure out how to inconvenience people. This is their philosophy though right? Hence the bespoke charger that is having to be legislated out of existence.

Oh, I see, we're going with plucking numbers out of the air. 😁

I'm in professional services, too. We use a variety of mail client apps. That's distinct from who is hosting your mail accounts. Lots of our clients still using Hotmail, Yahoo, Gmail accounts, everything really. You can't tell what client app they are using from their account domain. The client app determines the formatting.

If you want to attach a universally readable file use a PDF. These actually have security features unlike an email message, which is essentially just a text file.

It's possible that Tesla will be releasing a smartphone in a few years so it might be worth holding off till then, anybody in a mobile state of flux.

That's a fair point.

Am I the only one that uses Outlook (and Office) apps on my iPhone with no issue?

Certainly not me. Office is clunky enough on a decent laptop. I tend to use Google stuff, though avoid Sheets on the phone, as it somewhat negates the whole point of spreadsheets if you can't 'spread'.

Will it come with huge stainless steel case.