Jun 30 2010
“The best design explicitly acknowledges that you cannot disconnect the form from the material—the material informs the form, It is the polar opposite of working virtually in CAD to create an arbitrary form that you then render as a particular material, annotating a part and saying ‘that’s wood’ and so on. Because when an object’s materials, the materials’ processes and the form are all perfectly aligned, that object has a very real resonance on lots of levels. People recognize that object as authentic and real in a very particular way.”
— Jonathan Ive, SVP of Design at Apple.
Core77 speaks with Jonathan Ive on the design of the iPhone 4
Say what you will about Apple but they may have the best massmarket Design+Engineering+Manufacturing team on the planet. The tolerance on the SIM card enclosure is flat out breathtaking for a mass marketing consumer electronics device.
May 24 2010
“People who find the Web distasteful — ugly, uncivilized — have nonetheless been forced to live there: it’s the place to go for jobs, resources, services, social life, the future. But now, with the purchase of an iPhone or an iPad, there’s a way out, an orderly suburb that lets you sample the Web’s opportunities without having to mix with the riffraff. This suburb is defined by apps from the glittering App Store: neat, cute homes far from the Web city center, out in pristine Applecrest Estates. In the migration of dissenters from the “open” Web to pricey and secluded apps, we’re witnessing urban decentralization, suburbanization and the online equivalent of white flight.”
Mind blown. What a crazy, and what I think accurate, thought.
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ooo. Yeah. Dead on. This, by the way, is what I think Steve meant by “Freedom from porn.” Maybe not the porn you want, but that it’s not gonna pop up all the damn time even when you don’t want it, and you’ll be able to keep your kids from it.
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Apr 15 2010
Some of my thoughts on the iAd platform that were posted on our company’s blog:
The big thing that iAd really does is it brings new thinking into the capabilities of mobile display advertising and it wasn’t brought to you by Google. Google has been badly lagging in all aspects of mobile and Apple probably saw the lack of innovation in the mobile advertising market and decided to put their stake in the ground. Let’s also be clear here that mobile display advertising isn’t yet a billion dollar business, this isn’t about the money for Apple but reshaping the industry as they saw fit.
The bottom line for Apple is the continuing creation of new and free apps for the App Store while everything else, like being the innovator in mobile advertising, sticking it to Google, pre-emptively blocking Adobe are just bonuses.
How crazy awesome is it that we got a presentation from the former CEO of Quattro?
Feb 26 2010
“What developers see is that the App Store is a shaky foundation upon which to build a business. One day you’re prospering, the next day your app is gone. There are awesome iPhone OS apps that aren’t being built because developers don’t trust Apple not to yank the carpet out from underneath them.”
Jan 29 2010
Apple is starting to make Flash irrelevant. HTML5 will also further make Flash irrelevant. These sites will adapt, some will become niche and others will use HTML5 and become more universally accessible to all browsers and the web.
Why miss a buggy, bloated, insecure add-on? Flash has it’s place but it shouldn’t be overstated.
legoexpress:
The iPad provides the ultimate browsing experience? Millions of websites use Flash. Get used to the blue legos. (via theflashblog.com)
Nov 11 2009
“My job is to find the potential in something that others can not see, to secretly pour our resources into them and turn them into hits before anyone else catches on”
Sep 30 2009
A damn thorough examination into Apple’s relationship with Intel and proprietary ports.
Aug 24 2009
The location is 10,000 square feet, putting its sales per square foot at a minimum of $35,000, based on Roseman’s estimate. That’s the equivalent of selling one Mercedes-Benz C300 sedan per square foot. Apple may be the highest grossing retailer ever on Fifth Avenue,
Aug 6 2009
Apple’s intention for cannibalizing the iPod with the iPhone is one of the great business success stories from the past decade. To often it seems that corporations fear disturbing the golden goose or any sort of change and the rise of the iPod Touch is a great endorsement of pushing forward.
Throw away your number one for something even better.
