I keep seeing people talk about the Meta Glasses & “the next iPhone moment” THE NEXT IPHONE MOMENT IS NOT IN THIS WAVE OF HARDWAREWe are returning to hardware multiplicity. Or what I call “INDIE HARDWARE” The iPhone represented a convergence momentNEXT IS AN EXPLOSION!!! pic.twitter.com/0FyJLcue8k— 🌀 (@HipCityReg) September 28, 2023

“It’s cool that they’re calling it a “spatial computer”, which is a significant break from the “tech first” way of calling it a “headset”. It’s not about what it is, but what you do with it: You can do all kinds of computing tasks with it, but in a new kind of spatial way.43/?”

people were still buying music and the mp3 ecosystem that apple’s ipod marketing was driving millions of people to embrace was an incredible promo platform for indie stuff. everyone was going for it because success meant something: you could do 33k first week on warp. not anymore https://t.co/rE1pS46TP3— jaime brooks ☭ (@elite_gz) May 23, 2023

“I know it’s not as easily quantifiable, but Apple is utterly annihilating brand value, trust and goodwill with these ads. How is the revenue possibly worth it? As a developer, this sucks. As a user, it sucks. As someone who cares about Apple products it’s just profoundly sad.”

I worry that a whole bunch of designer effort is now going to be spent on making blobby wobbly pixels—but for what actual benefit? Making great software is still mostly about delivering useful and meaningful features for people.— Ken Kocienda (@kocienda) September 17, 2022