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The secret behind Apple’s elegant packaging desgins
From the type of wood used on the displays at Apple retail stores to the exact shade of white chosen for the iPhone, Apple’s attention to detail is obsessive, and indeed, is a huge factor in the company’s ongoing success. Apple arguably doesn’t just sell consumer electronic products. Rather, their mission is much broader. They [...]
Continue reading...Apple and Google both exploring wearable technology initiatives
Tuesday, December 20, 2011
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Apple’s bread and butter lies in delivering innovative technology inside an easy-to-use wrapper to the mainstream. While most companies tend to release any morsel of cool technology that might originate from their research labs, Apple only releases a product if it believes it’ll have a fundamental impact on a market. Indeed, Apple’s Greg Joswiak recently [...]
Continue reading...Steve Jobs on the design process – excerpt from upcoming Robert X. Cringley interview
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
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By Sarah Petit: In 1996, Robert X. Cringley put together the famed PBS special “Triumph of the Nerds” where he weaved a narrative of the early days of Silicon Valley based on the people who were a part of that era. Naturally, Steve Jobs was one of the folks Cringley interviewed and is the source [...]
Continue reading...The Apple Extended Keyboard – everything Steve Jobs hated about Apple
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
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By Sarah Petit: There is no shortage of Steve Jobs anecdotes coming in from former friends and colleagues of the Apple co-founder, but this one from venture capitalist Steve Jurvetson really captures the mindset of Jobs and exemplifies the strategy he used to help bring Apple back from the brink of bankruptcy to technical prominence. [...]
Continue reading...It’s this type of design/usability detail that sets Apple apart from the competition
Monday, October 24, 2011
By David Goldman: It’s the little things, really. It’s not uncommon to hear, when people describe what they like about Apple products, that devices like the iPhone just seem more elegant than the competition. Typically, these conversations center on differences in software design, but the unparalleled attention to detail that Apple pays to its products [...]
Continue reading...Jony Ive had “more operational power” at Apple than anyone besides Steve Jobs
Friday, October 21, 2011
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By Josh Rosenthall: Bits and pieces of Steve Jobs biography continue to trickle in and, man, this is going to occupy a lot of time for us next week. In one snippet relayed by the AP, Jobs says that Apple design guru Jony Ive, someone Jobs had previously referred to as his best friend, wielded [...]
Continue reading...Josh Topolsky interviews Android lead designer Matias Duarte
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
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By Sarah Petit: This is My Next has a great and wide-ranging interview with Google’s Matias Duarte, who you might recognize as the design genius behind Danger, Helio, and more recently Palm where he helped design and develop its highly regarded WebOS. These days, Duarte works for Google and helped shape Android 4.0 Ice Cream [...]
Continue reading...Motorola’s MotoACTV looks a lot like the iPod Nano
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
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By Josh Rosenthall: Motorola on Tuesday announced the MotoACTV, a new “smart watch” powered by Android and aimed at serious exercisers. The watch plays music, tells time (of course) and can wirelessly upload a user’s fitness data to the web as it can track the distance, speed, and pace of runners. There are also optional headsets [...]
Continue reading...The lunacy of the “iPhone 4S is a disappointment” crowd
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
By John Hiesler: A week ago, Apple unveiled the iPhone 4S, which despite housing a significant number of improvements, provoked yawns from a number of pundits and even technology enthusiasts who saw the update as nice, but nothing special. It seems that many were hoping for a larger screen iPhone with a tapered design. Not [...]
Continue reading...What an iPhone 5 with a 4.3, 4.5, and 4.7-inch screen would look like
Monday, October 3, 2011
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By Luis Estrada: Apple tomorrow will announce its next-generation iPhone and whether or not Apple will release one or two new devices remains open for debate. While it’s largely believed Apple will release a device dubbed the iPhone 4S with essentially the same form factor as the iPhone 4, there have also been rumors of [...]
Continue reading...It’s the simplicity stupid!
Thursday, September 15, 2011
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The differences between purchasing a Mac and a PC are stark, a fact quickly evident by visiting Apple’s website and any number of PC websites. Highlighting this, Peter Bright of Ars Technica recently detailed his attempts at picking a PC from some of the top brands in the industry. Picking a PC is essentially a riddle. [...]
Continue reading...ASA rules the iPhone 4 is thinner than the Samsung Galaxy S II
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
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Apple and Samsung’s ongoing legal dispute is serious business, which is why it’s kind of funny to see the two tech giants engaged in a petty argument over who has the thinnest smartphone. Yep, Apple likes to tout the iPhone 4 as the thinnest smartphone on the planet. And why not – the device is [...]
Continue reading...Vic Gundotra on Steve Jobs’ attention to detail
Thursday, August 25, 2011
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Vic Gundotra is a Senior VP at Google where he works on social business initiatives and mobile applications. In a post on Google+, Gundotra relays a charming story about one of his many interactions with Jobs. The backdrop: Gundotra in early January was at a religious service when he got a call from an unknown [...]
Continue reading...Apple graphic designer Louie Mantia leaving for Square
Wednesday, August 17, 2011
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Apple designer Louie Mantia announced this week via Twitter that in two weeks he’ll be leaving Apple to join the creative team at Square. In case you’re unfamiliar, Square is an innovative mobile payment startup that was founded by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey. Here’s how it works: Square provides users a little dongle that attaches [...]
Continue reading...Apple’s iPad enjoys design efficiencies competitors simply can’t match
Monday, August 8, 2011
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Having learned the pitfalls of exorbitantly high product pricing , Apple shocked everybody when they released the original iPad for only $499. While that now seems to be the going rate for any base model tablet these days, remember that in the weeks preceding the iPad launch, many were anticipating Apple’s tablet to fall in [...]
Continue reading...“Record” user in OS X Lion has a nifty little easter egg
Friday, August 5, 2011
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As OS X matured over the past few years, Apple seemed to do away with Easter Eggs – you know, those fun little surprises Apple developers would leave around the OS, much to the delight of the nerdy among us. Well, with OS X Lion, we seem to be seeing a few more of these [...]
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Monday, January 30, 2012
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