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 …
While auto-correct frustrates every iPhone user at one time or another, I imagine it’s an insanely complex feature to get right. After using it for 13 years now, I find that I have a list of small things I’d love to see change rather than a few number of really …
I ask myself the question why I bother writing this. There are hundreds of articles on the web comparing these two products but I may offer a unique perspective.
In 20 years at Apple, I obviously saw a lot and was sometimes motivated to write long, laborious manifestos about things. Usually they were practices and processes I felt needed to change.
These were initially published on my internal blog at Apple. So if you love manifestos and have a …
All across macOS and iOS, when you search for something, the ordering of results in most cases is:
I’ll provide several examples. First up, Maps. Let’s …
One of my brothers went to Stanford and worked at Genentech, so I had a chance to visit the San Francisco quite a few times. Loved it. …