10 posts tagged ‘steve jobs’
25 Years of the Dock and Aqua
mjtsai,
James Thomson (Mastodon): On the 5th of January 2000, Steve Jobs unveiled the new Aqua user interface of Mac OS X to the world at Macworld Expo. […] The version he showed was quite different to what actually ended up shipping, with square boxes around the icons, and an actual “Dock” folder in your user’s […]
Scott Knaster Occasionally Misses Expectations
Scott Knaster: I worked in Silicon Valley for many years with brilliant people at amazing companies that changed the world. A lot of my stories are about those people and places. But some of them are about something unexpected I saw on a walk around my neighborhood. Stuff like that.I tell stories face to face, […]
Apple Managed to Avoid Its Watch Ban For Now
Gizmodo,
Just Wednesday, it was announced that the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit refused to extend the pause on the temporary ban on Apple Watches and ordered it to officially halt sales of the watches by 5 pm ET on Thursday, January 18. According to 9to5Mac’s latest report, Apple has finally managed to execute… Read more...
Siri's Not Dead Yet, Jony Ive Comes Out of Hibernation, and More of the Biggest Tech News
The sleepy week between Christmas and New Year’s is for hangouts and hangovers. That is unless you work at Apple. For the folks in Cupertino, this week was all about trying to get the Apple Watch unbanned and scrambling to find a new lead designer for the iPhone. Read more...
Ayaneo Mini PC Hands-On: A Fist-Sized Macintosh-Like That's as Cute as It Is Mundane
Normally, I wouldn’t care what my mini PC looks like. Why would I? It’s just the box I stick next to my monitor for on-the-go computing needs. It doesn’t need all the flashing lights and LEDs of an ultimate gaming rig, it just needs to function. At least, that’s how I originally felt about your average NUC. Then I… Read more...
Apple's 12 Most Embarrassing Product Failures
Apple is one of the most globally respected technology companies, having built its reputation on creating reliable, high-end products with innovative features. The Cupertino tech giant has such an impressive track record that its next project—whether that be an AR headset or something else entirely —is already assumed… Read more...
Jony Ive Poaches Lead iPhone Designer to Work on OpenAI Hardware Device
Tang Tan, Apple’s lead designer for the iPhone and Apple Watch, is stepping down to join Jony Ive’s hardware firm LoveFrom, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman on Wednesday. Tan is the latest Apple designer to join Ive, which is assembling an Avengers-like team with Sam Altman to create the next era of hardware… Read more...
The Original iPhone Demo
Fred Vogelstein (2013, via Hacker News): The software in the iPhone’s Wi-Fi radio was so unstable that Grignon and his team had to extend the phones’ antennas by connecting them to wires running offstage so the wireless signal wouldn’t have to travel as far. And audience members had to be prevented from getting on the […]