Weeknote: 31 August 2026 – Retroid Pocket Nova, an Apple price cut, Liquid Glass, Android vs iOS, BitCam and more

I found an end-game retro handheld! Well, one was sent to me. Regardless, I checked out the Retroid Pocket Nova and it’s extremely good. I’m not kidding when I say in the piece that this is the first time where I’m genuinely unsure as to what else I could want in one of these things – at least as far as 4:3 gaming goes.
Apple cut a price. Really. In perhaps my most IMPORTANT and TOTALLY SERIOUS article ever, read about how Apple did the unthinkable by knocking over 50% off of an infamous product.
Make Liquid Glass not suck. All you need to do for this is install the new ‘27’ operating systems, which appear to have had actual designers in the mix again. But my tutorial explains how to make Liquid Glass far more tolerable than that.
I wish Apple would steal more from Android. Specifically these three features for power users.
LEGO Star Wars is getting silly again. The latest big-o-set is a 6,000+ piece grey triangular dart. Where do people store these things?
BitCam returns! This lovely little app takes snaps that look as if they were created on a really old-school Mac. Best of all, the entire interface looks like it’s beamed in from a Mac Classic. It’s now part of my best free iPhone apps roundup.
Gear: I wrote about the PocketBook Q e-reader and Apple Mac Studio. The second of those is… spendy.