I came home from Barcelona Thursday, then further trashed my jet-lagged, MWC-damaged sleep cycle Friday night by staying up until 3 a.m. to watch the liftoff of SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule on its debut, unmanned flight to the International Space Station. I assure you that was worth the multiple naps I needed Saturday afternoon.
For more from MWC 2019, see my Flickr album after the jump.
2/25/2019: How Europe could cement American online dominance, Yahoo Finance
The proposed changes to copyright law nearing a final vote in the European Parliament are criminally stupid.
2/25/2019: U.S.-Huawei fight becomes focus of Barcelona’s trade show, Yahoo Finance
I talked to host Alexis Christoforous via Skype over a bad connection about Huawei’s role in the industry. For a second Yahoo video hit that day–I haven’t been able to find a link to that–I switched to a spot in the press center that not only had much better WiFi but also had a good backdrop: the MWC hashtag on a wall visible behind me.
2/26/2019: Foldable phones are taking over the Mobile World Congress, Yahoo Finance
I made another appearance on Yahoo’s morning show, once again in the press center. The prop for my laptop each time? A trash bin dragged into position in front of my chair.
2/27/2019: Why a USB-C headphone adapter can’t amount to jack, USA Today
A friend’s report last October that a third-party USB-to-3.5-mm adapter didn’t work with his phone led me to realize I didn’t hate the removal of headphone jacks from phones quite enough.
2/27/2019: How Microsoft’s HoloLens 2 is bringing augmented reality to your job, Yahoo Finance
Before heading out to MWC, I e-mailed a couple of friends who have been developing on HoloLens for a while, then followed up to get their impressions of the new version.
2/28/2019: Why tech still can’t explain its own requests for your data, The Parallax
I wrote this essay after yet another bout of outrage over tech privacy that was made worse an inability to explain things clearly to customers (as opposed to investors and advertisers).
2/28/2019: No, you don’t need a 5G phone yet, Yahoo Finance
I know, I’m usually cranky about the first generation of anything. But in the case of 5G, the limits and likely high costs of the first generation of phones compatible with this new wireless standard make them an especially unwise purchase.
3/1/2019: The best cheap phones from Mobile World Congress, Yahoo Finance
I had meant to file this early in my flight back from Barcelona to Newark, but the already-sluggish WiFi was particularly hostile towards Gmail and Google Docs, leaving me unable to file or e-mail my editor for much of the flight.
3/3/2019: The weirdest gadgets from MWC 2019, Yahoo Finance
I wrote much of this short, fun list of bizarre MWC hardware at Newark and then on the short flight from EWR to DCA, then banged out the rest at National Airport before taking Metro home–some 18 hours after my day had begun on the other side of the Atlantic.
Rob Pegoraro 