Prev formed & led Design Engineering
@Snap
. Once jailbreak guru. Nerd out on design/intersecting product value+systems. Thinking about the future/structuralism.
So happy to finally share. Working on tinyPod the past yr, I only decided to take it from a side project to a real, shipping product for one reason: Whenever I left the house with it, I loved how I felt.
Sometimes the best solution to a problem comes in the least expected formโฆ
New patent filings for Vision Pro show off just how small the main component really is. Majority of the bulk is pure cushion/light-seal. (
@PatentlyApple
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I used Arc as my only browser for 2+ years and loved it, but I tried switching back to Safari recently and it's been... nice. Not missing any features much, and if anything some things from Safari are harder to give up...
The biggest benefit of Arc's vertical tab layout/groups
WatchOS is the most powerful mini OS in the world but most only use it as a wrist companion for notifications/some fitness tracking. What if it could turn into something funner, something classic, something that even let you leave your phone behind sometimesโฆ meet ๐๐๐๐๐๐จ๐
Hope the new iPad Pros are an indicator that this is what's to come from iPhone industrial design. Please Jony, Marc Newson's biomorphic jewelry shit had a good run.
Vision Pro is undeniably impressive. But also undeniable is Appleโs lack of clear communication around its why or human centered purpose. They once led in explaining big ideas/deep thinking on the place of technology in the world, and Apple just isnโt that anymoreโฆand thatโs ok.
One of my favorite articulations of design process is Steve talking about the symbiosis between 'great ideas' and true craftsmanship.
"Designing a product is keeping five thousand things in your brain and fitting them all together in new and different ways to get what you want."
Thinking about this pitch more recentlyโฆ weโre sort of seeing a new category emerge, theyโre just still these worse than a phone (/why isnt it an app) things & will be for a while; netbooks. What works wonโt replace phones just be better at some key things + solve current needs.
Fumbling w safari on Vision Pro just to web search is so slow/tediousโฆ So
@tracy__henry
& I made a super shortcut letting you use just eyes+voice to quick search anything. Say "Youtube/Ask AI/Wiki __" and jump to results instantly. HUGE productivity boost
Great to have enthusiasm around a clear pov but man is this a repulsively materialistic world view that wonโt stand the test of time - just guised as high eq/altruistic when at very best (re โfriend/partnerโ) itโll maybe be more narcissistic/ego-fueling entertainment tech.
The
Avi Schiffmann, creator of the Friend necklace, says that the device is "like God" because of its omnipresence and superintelligence and this will only become more evident as AI models become sentient
1st gen iPad (2010) โ iPad Pro (2018)
The latest hardware is incredible (pinnacle of OG vision) but the lack of advancement on the interaction fundamentals/OS-front is a sad, squandered opportunity imo.
Wish I could use this form factor in my life more, it's just not there yet.
10 years later and emerging tech is even more openly inspired by Her for the weirdly wrong reasons. I loved it but itโs literally a dystopian tale of loneliness - What am I missing
OK, heard! ๐ป๐๐ ๐ช๐๐๐๐๐๐ stand is now official. Producing a 13lb unibody block of solid aluminum is pricey (any other way doesnโt look or feel the same), so Iโll only be spinning up a few hundred at most.
If you want one, order here while you can:
According with what was reported to me and what I found
iPhone 16 Ultra get 3 new smaller cameras, we donโt know the purpose yet, but it is likely there is some function to do with the new Vision Pro
The phones sells in US would have a button to switch mmWave mode
iPhone 16
10 years later and emerging tech is even more openly inspired by Her for the weirdly wrong reasons. I loved it but itโs literally a dystopian tale of loneliness - What am I missing
SCOOP: iOS 18 will let you lock entire apps behind Face ID, multiple sources told me. I imagine this feature will also work with Touch ID/passcode.
No more having to use Screen Time or Shortcuts workarounds.
Itโs a different company. The techโs still amazing & I respect the incredible craft going into this thing. But I think people feel the lack of the above & acknowledging it isnโt being a hater so much as itโs being nostalgic for a, dare I say, more altruistic-feeling era of Apple.