If people could understand what computing was about, the iPhone would not be a bad thing. But because people don’t understand what computing is about, they think they have it in the iPhone, and that illusion is as bad as the illusion that Guitar Hero is the same as a real guitar. That’s the simple long and the short of it.
We Melted iPhones for Science
OASIS generated real-time video with on-device AI. Four years later, Apple redesigned the iPhone so that AI won't burn your hand -- and admitted that we were right.
Physicality: the new age of UI
There’s a lot of rumors of a big impending UI redesign from Apple. Let’s imagine what’s (or what could be) next for the design of iPhones, Macs and iPads.
Apple at 50: eight technology leaps that changed our world
From Apple II to the iPhone, time and again this extraordinary company has anticipated the value of opening up computing to everyone.
Alexander Obenauer
Exploring new and renewed ideas for how personal computing and the interfaces we think with can better serve people’s lives – expanding opportunity, agency, curiosity, and creativity.
Your smartphone is making you stupid, antisocial and unhealthy. So why can’t you put it down?
A decade ago, smart devices promised to change the way we think and interact, and they have – but not by making us smarter. Eric Andrew-Gee explores the growing body of scientific evidence that digital distraction is damaging our minds
music hardware is a fashion accessory
why is everyone obsessed with audio hardware now?
MockUPhone
MockUPhone is a free tool that helps you wrap app screenshots in different mobile devices. Support iPhone mockup, iPad mockup, Android mockup and TV mockup.
Outshone by Smaller Screens, PCs Aim to Be Seen as Cool Again (Published 2016)
With the onslaught of smartphones and tablets, even people who depend on PCs now lack passion for these onetime miracle products.
Rethinking how technology uses our personal data
This essay explores visually how keeping data and AI on‑device could empower not only users, but also companies.
ignore the code: The Failure of the iPad
Two days ago, ZDNet published this article: Meet the iPad, your work computer: These 10 apps make real productivity possible. These kinds of articles, where writers explain how they use their iPads productively, musicians talk about how the iPad is truly a professional tool, or painters show how they use the iPad for professional illustrations, are published regularly. There's probably a new one every week.
The iPhone Duo’s windows into Liquid Glass - Quibbletown by Keren
With the reveal of the new iPhone Duo1, I was delighted to see how iOS was adapted to accommodate the strange, shifting nature of a folding display. How do we communicate the weird turns and tumbles of the hardware not just to the system, but to the user, to prepare them for what their big cumbersome motion will do to the apps they’re interacting with?
Apple is planning a big AI comeback, but we've heard this song before
Apple's future AI products and services sound fantastic, but Apple's unannounced future products usually do.
Part 3: iPhone Hardware and How It Powers On-Device AI
By Mirai Labs, frontier on-device AI lab. Building the models, inference runtime, and quantization stack from the device constraint up.
Apple’s new Processor Trace instrument is incredible · Victor Wynne
The new Processor Trace instrument has flown under the radar with this years WWDC announcements but many developers will find it truly indispensable.
The Knowledge Ecology
The important thing here is that the music is not in the piano. And knowledge and edification is not in the computer. The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas. Yes? No? Yes-no-yes-no-yes-no.
