Tim MaughanInterview
Writer, journalist
Adapted from Tim Maughan's interview on Uses This, published 29 March 2018. The kit is drawn from their answers and each reason is an excerpt, lightly edited. Shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Read the full interview ↗
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I have, however, literally just bought a new MacBook Pro, as my last one was from 2010 and the drive had finally failed.
Similarly I'm still using my iPhone 6s, which I'm hoping I can get a good few more years out of.
I also have an iPhone 5s, which has an EU sim card in it for traveling.
The other piece of software I've become reliant on is Freedom.
Communication
It's a cross platform app that allows me to block my own access to Twitter apart from a few hours a day.
Productivity
Editors and people I collaborate with love to use Google Docs, and luckily it's got a lot better over the last few years.
Media
Storage
I personally use Dropbox for sharing and backing up, but I'm not under any illusion that my data is any safer from algorithmic surveillance on there as opposed to Google or Apple.