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Apple: Affordability Crisis? What Affordability Crisis?

Saturday, September 19, 2026 at 8:45 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall
Black-and-white cartoon of a customer asking to see an iPhone Duo despite criticizing its price and flaws.

Apple’s greatest innovation isn’t manufacturing hardware. It’s manufacturing need, and the obsolescence of common sense. This latest iPINIONS cartoon lampoons the peculiar power of Apple consumerism in an age when everyone is supposedly struggling to afford the basics. Read my full take on Substack: https://ipinionsdaily.substack.com/p/apple-affordability-crisis-what-affordability Read more.

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Filed Under: Culture Tagged With: Affordability Crisis, Apple, consumerism, iPhone, satire, Technology

Doomscrolling End of Times

Saturday, November 15, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall
cartoon of child doomscrolling about end times

iPINIONS imagined the apocalypse would be cinematic; not something we’d scroll through between coffee and deadlines. Eliot said it more poetically, but Huxley depicted our brave new world more accurately. Read my quip on Substack: https://ipinionsdaily.substack.com/p/doomscrolling-end-of-times Read more.

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Filed Under: Culture Tagged With: Digital Culture, doomscrolling, dystopia, End Times, iPINIONS, modern life, social media, Technology

Job Interview in the Time of AI

Sunday, July 13, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall
cartoon about interviewing for a job that a chatbot has already taken

You spend your life becoming qualified only to realize the interview is just data mining for the bot they already prefer. iPINIONS welcomes you to late-stage capitalism — where Adams’s Dilbert applies, Kafka’s Josef K. judges, and Camus’s Meursault thrives. Read more.

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Filed Under: Technology Tagged With: AI, Artificial Intelligence, automation, Camus, capitalism, cartoons, comics, Dilbert, iPINIONS, job interviews, jobs, Kafka, satire, Technology, workplace

Parental Authority Once Surrendered Is Never Regained

Saturday, June 28, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall
cartoon of parent negotiating with a child about binge-watching TV.

Except that iPINIONS thinks this parent must be playing some kind of reverse psychology on his kid. Because everyone knows it’s parents who binge-watch episodes, while kids are already itching to scroll their dumb phones before the end of the opening credits… Read more.

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Filed Under: Culture Tagged With: Digital Distraction, iPINIONS Humor, Parenting, Pop Culture, Screen Time, social media, Technology, TV Binge-Watching

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