I used the maps application on my iPhone today for a genuinely useful purpose for the first time - to find the nearest branch of a shop that my girlfriend and I were looking for.

After excitedly shouting, “ooh, let’s use my iPhone!”, I located the nearest store not more than fifty metres away from where I was standing and looked up, amazed, to see the shop we were looking for just down the road.

I still can’t help feeling that I was cheated out of my value for money.