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Apple confirms use of Corning Gorilla Glass in the iPhone
When the first iPhone was being tested by Apple engineers and executives, the device employed a plastic screen. That didn’t sit too well with Steve Jobs who noticed that the screen was prone to immense scratching from keys and other pocketable items. Being the perfectionist he is, Jobs demanded an alternative solution which ultimately ended […]
Continue reading...Google’s losing bet on hardware manufacturers
Thursday, February 23, 2012
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Dustin Curtis recently wrote a great post explaining why a lot of the Android phones out on the market today are completely atrocious from a UI perspective. Curtis relays a conversation he had with Rich Miner, one of the founders of Android, and how Google’s intention with Android was to take care of the nitty […]
Continue reading...Features iOS should “borrow” from WebOS
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
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Now that the HP TouchPad and Palm Pre are no longer with us, WebOS is being open sourced. Despite the inability of WebOS to succeed in the marketplace, the OS brought with it a number of interesting UI designs that Apple would be well advised to incorporate into iOS. Lukas Mathis has a comprehensive overview […]
Continue reading...The secret behind Apple’s elegant packaging desgins
Monday, January 30, 2012
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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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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 of the legendary […]
Continue reading...The Apple Extended Keyboard – everything Steve Jobs hated about Apple
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
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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. Moreover, it paints […]
Continue reading...It’s this type of design/usability detail that sets Apple apart from the competition
Monday, October 24, 2011
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 can also be […]
Continue reading...Jony Ive had “more operational power” at Apple than anyone besides Steve Jobs
Friday, October 21, 2011
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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 the most power […]
Continue reading...Josh Topolsky interviews Android lead designer Matias Duarte
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
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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 Sandwich. “Android is […]
Continue reading...Motorola’s MotoACTV looks a lot like the iPod Nano
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
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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 with built-in heart rate […]
Continue reading...The lunacy of the “iPhone 4S is a disappointment” crowd
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
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 so much because […]
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Tuesday, March 6, 2012
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