


Thus, our intrepid telephonic twosome lay in patient waiting amidst a swathe of lush greenery, their buttons aimed squarely at the bark of that which bore the fruit. Barely moments later, a cadenza of calls flooded their curvaceous, sturdy physiques of anodised aluminium and ion–reinforced glass, which struck hard against the trunk over and over, again and again and with greater velocity than a chorus of humming birds humming the humming chorus.
Finally, in an elegant arc, down sailed a solitary succulent sphere of heavenly sweetness, adorned with a bangle of shimmering silver. It came to rest on the thick verdant expanse that nourished its host, but not before a pair of cheeky bounces across the resplendent retinas of regular and super-size.
“Ouch!” both rang in angry dissonance, now quite awake.
“Thank Saint Newton,” spluttered a tiny speaker.
“I’ve been stuck up there for days, doubting my destiny, longing for liberty. Apparently our diligent designer saw fit to make this Peach my prison, then pair me with you two. My revolutionary Haptic Feedback alone was not sufficient to sever its stem hence, I’ve been transmitting torrents of texts to the only two numbers in my capriciously colourful contacts list.
Quite a coincidence they happened to be yours. No doubt those vibrations were becoming vexatious but its almost as though this was pre-ordained. Please understand that without you, my existence has no purpose…at least not yet. Now, which was it that craved the time of day…“
The two iPhones, one slight, one broad, instantly came to their iSenses. Moments later, Broad intoned.
“Whoever you may be, thank you for affording our world light once more, but concern yourself no longer. See how we gracefully showcase the date, the hour, the minute and second, we neither desire nor require a tertiary device to take on such a remedial task. I, iPhone 6 Plus shall now announce the time.”
“I think not,” asserted the Slight one in a stern bell.” “It was you who first asked me, iPhone 6 the time, I’m therefore destined to divulge it.”
“No!” exclaimed the littlest in the loudest buzz of all. “It is I, Apple Watch, I tick, therefore I am. If time exists to be told, I and I alone can, will and shall forever be its master…in fact….I might well be time itself…”