KUALA LUMPUR, Sept. 29 -- I started doing tech reviews 20 years ago and like long marriages, it takes work to keep the spark alive.

So I'm going to dispense with the overly technical details because the people who want that are going to look up Ars Technica or GSM Arena anyway or maybe YouTube.

Instead I just decided to take the iPhone 18 Pro Max out on a casual outing, doing the things I like best (eating, mainly).

So let me tell you how the day went, the way I might talk to a girlfriend about someone I met on a dating app.

To start things off I had to go pick up the phone instead of me getting picked up, but isn't that modern life?

While I collected my phone elsewhere, the Apple faithful were already at the store before 8am to get ...