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
I have a crazy conspiracy theory about Apple, virtual reality, and avatars that I don't actually think is true but is too weird not to share.It starts with how Apple's corporate and AppleTV content...looks. pic.twitter.com/RTpm3uzcmr— 𝒥𝑜𝑒𝓁, 𝒶 𝒻𝓇𝒾𝑒𝓃𝒹 (@joeljohnson) June 7, 2023
The organizational culture that enables Apple designers to double the scope of a product roadmap based off their opinion & feelings—like adding a screen to show your eyes that users will never see—is something that could never exist at Facebook. pic.twitter.com/2JTVX2t6pJ— Nikita Bier (@nikitabier) June 6, 2023
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
Steve Troughton-Smith on Twitter - fixes for stage manager in iPadOS 16 beta
I think my preferred way to fix window placement/resizing on iPad’s Stage Manager is to not do any of the ‘smart’ repositioning or grid-snapping when interacted with via mouse/trackpad. I get how that could be nice with finger interaction, but I do not want it at all with a mouse— Steve Troughton-Smith (@stroughtonsmith) August 20, 2022
Interestingly, the app was first dubbed “Find my Family”. Management (read: Steve) found the entire idea of location tracking deeply creepy. It led to a very long design process with dozens of beautiful and wacky app concepts to make it less… stalky and more friendly.— Sebastiaan de With (@sdw) August 20, 2022
Steve) found the entire idea of location tracking deeply creepy. It led to a very long design process with dozens of beautiful and wacky app concepts to make it less… stalky and more friendly.
Skeumorphism seemed to give designers more opportunities to “set the vibe” in ways that would make meaningful differences in user impressions like this