This is not my story and I’m sure I’ll get a lot wrong re-telling it from a good friend it happened to. But it’s a fun little anecdote that I wish were mine.
On his very first day, he was heading towards a stairway to go …
Why I chose this photo will become apparent in a moment.
This is fairly well known, but at the Infinite Loop campus, Steve Jobs used to park his car in a small lot right next to the Infinite Loop 1, often in a handicapped spot.
One …
There probably have been millions of articles written about the Apple of Tim Cook and how it differs from the Apple of Steve Jobs. I’ve always been hesitant to add to that.
Having worked at Apple for 12 years under Steve and 8 years under Tim, that gives me plenty …
From the iPhone 6S through the iPhone XS, there was a feature called “3D touch” where you could press harder on the screen and, in some cases, this would unlock different functionality.
One point of confusion was that there was also a “long press”, which was more like a tap …
This was a feature Apple prototyped but never shipped that was near and dear to my heart. The feature addressed two things.
First, people often remember the app they used to create a document or when they worked on it last. It’s harder to remember the name of the document …
After a protracted move to Portland (Oregon), I’m back to writing about parrots.
…Steve used to say to me, and he used to say this a lot. Hey Jony, here’s a dopey idea. And sometimes they were. Really dopey. Sometimes they were truly dreadful. But sometimes they took the air
You need go no further than Scott Forstall’s Twitter feed to find a picture of his hair that had the signature flip up in the front.
Some referred to it as a ski jump and apparently Steve Jobs took note in one high-level meeting. A strong caveat to this story. …
In the context of this article, “bug screening” means taking a bug report filed by an employee or developer or someone else. Then, doing any number of things:
Tech workers believe that they have the best health insurance and all other types of insurance offered by their company. And they are probably right. I don’t have any data to prove otherwise.
What I do know from my own research and experience is that the disability insurance offered by …
It shouldn’t surprise anyone that Steve Jobs liked to take pictures. He was even taking a picture the last time I saw him. However, many people might not know that some of his photos shipped as Desktop Pictures in Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard.
And here they are:
There …