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The new Teracube 2e is a sustainable smartphone and a glimpse of a better future for accessories The Teracube 2e, after a long trip to my mailbox from China, arrived in a simple, unadorned cardboard box. Photos courtesy of the author Imagine the cheapest possible smartphone you can buy that’s brand new. Given that low barrier, what would you be able to do with it? Would the experience be frustrating or simply average? Would you gain some benefits with that minimalist sheen that you might not find otherwise? I found myself pondering these questions around the Teracube 2e, a device promote...

Photo: Everyday basics/Unsplash Back in the dark days of Apple, the almost forgotten mid-1990s, there was a booming business of Mac Clones, licensed, Apple-ish systems running iOS 7 on RISC-based Power PC chips. The quality and designs were decidedly un-Mac-like, but the license business served as a lifesaving revenue bridge between Apple’s stumbling mid-1990s and the return of Steve Jobs. Jobs killed the licensing business in 1997 and remade the Mac as a translucent and desirable objet d’digital art. Since then, Apple’s maintained a vicelike grip on the tech and design specs for all Ma...