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Most commentary about Apple’s iPhone strategy bemoans its apparent lack of novelty. I think Apple may have quietly taken that feedback to heart, but not in the way people expect. Rather than trying to make the iPhone itself dramatically different every year, Apple seems to be treating the smartphone as what it increasingly is: a mature product category where the basic problem is largely solved and the return on radical changes to the mainstream product is relatively low.Unlike the 2021 MacBook…
Put together a fun promotional page for Backchannel.
Two quick thoughts about this:I understand the appeal: AirPods represent a unique opportunity for continuous interaction with assistants and your phone at large. However, there’s a social-affordance component that I think is being missed.If you put cameras or other recording devices in places where people don’t expect them, you’re essentially creating a surveillance device, regardless of how it’s marketed. With people already on edge about privacy and surveillance, that social context…
I got tired of the two-tab tango on Hacker News, so I fixed it. Discussion on HN
Apple’s iPhone Mirroring is great, but we really need the inverse: a native way to mirror and control macOS from iOS.Remotely controlling a Mac has always been needlessly cumbersome, and with the rise of agentic AI tools running for hours in the background on Mac Minis we need a seamless workflow. Notifications pushed from your Mac which you can either dismiss or instantly tunnel in and control the machine.The tech is already there: adapt the VisionOS stack used for Mac Virtual Display.
Maximal configurability shouldn’t be a tool’s goal, it should be an option for when it’s actually necessary. Designing an ergonomic tool is fundamentally about having good defaults, while still allowing escape hatches where they’re possible/needed.
This was always one of the most baffling changes to macOS. The bespoke, highly detailed icons were distinguished and gave the OS a premium feel compared to the tiny pixelated icons of Windows.
Apologies for the lack of posts. Not dead, just busy.
Claude ‘Design’ is a misnomer.If you think ‘design’ has anything to do with pushing pixels, you never understood what design actually is (or have any business claiming to have reinvented it).
Apple keeps adding more ways to personalize the shell of the OS. The next real leap is letting people reshape the apps themselves.
