As Vergecast listeners know, I’m a sucker for automobile cellphone mounts and chargers. They’re an ideal gadget for the fashionable age — a design downside with no good resolution, worth factors that often land on the greater finish of the impulse-buy zone, and utterly well-suited for focused Instagram advertisements. “Individuals who have purchased a Qi-based automobile mount within the final 12 months,” the advertising and marketing director of a tiny accent firm sternly instructs the Fb ad-targeting system. “Discover them and relentlessly strain them into shopping for our product which is at greatest marginally higher than the one they’ve.”
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