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- An End Of Year Opinion About AI Because Why Not; Good Enough Mitigation of Reasonably Foreseeable Harm … making them and where would you be then? You wouldn’t have an iPhone! Nobody would want to write software because it wouldn’t be worth it! I …
- It’s not a hardware or software problem, dummy … Even the iPhone as it launched was too good ! It didn’t even have copy and paste and still it was too good in terms of what it …
- Personality; A Rule about Designing Games … that I think the clear philosophy behind Apple’s industrial design since the iPhone and iPad has been “fade into the background and be the container for the …
- It's the Unique Integration of the Hardware, the Silicon, and the Software, Stupid … Since launch last year, analysts reckon the iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max have sold a combined 47.5 million units[^iphone14]. The PS5 hit 40 …
- Some Combination of Efficiency and Expediency … Today I'm out looking at houses, which also means I get to use iPhone LIDAR-enabled room-scanning floorplan-making apps in anger. How exciting! That's …
- The Software-Defined Cost of Doing Business … When CarPlay came out, there was a sort-of joke about people now suddenly basing car decisions on whether or not their car supported their iPhone or not …
- It was only a receipt; It's a social problem, not a technology problem; Stupid smart lights … For a period of a few weeks in and around November last year, the Alexa iOS app was broken -- on the iPhone 14 series in particular -- to the …
- Duolingo, but for talking to ML Image Generators … and the people who worked on it go on to contribute to the iPhone and other seminal conventions of smartphones. But the thing with Graffiti was that it …
- Business models that make you cry; Long-range microwave networks; Home servers; Twitter, But Angrier And In VR … And then Steve came back with one more thing, as he always did, which was the iPhone, and then suddenly mobile games were a thing. Mobile games were …
- Form Factors; Weaponizing typos to own the libs … This stuff isn't like the iPhone, whose form factor hasn't changed appreciably since its debut: it's gotten a bit bigger (to my dismay), but it …
- What Is It Like To Be A PlayStation? … is likely to be more like the SoC and display equivalent of the iPhone 14 Pro Max, which starts at $1099). Okay, forget hardware. That's it own …
- Google Stadia, or, Winning at Videogames … Hardware is totally commoditized now, and absent a brand new iPhone-esque hardware platform launch, hardware isn't going to make a lot more money. There just aren …
- Manifest What I Mean, Not What I Say … Okay, that's it! How are you? Best, Dan View activities in the Dynamic Island on iPhone, Apple, 2022 ↩︎
- Five Short Things, including Google Vibe … There's a reason why the early iPhone ads were "how you do things on an iPhone." Collective Intelligence Clive Thompson's Why Cooperation Might Have Shrunk Our …
- Dan Hon is Away … I think we see traces of this kind of behavior at Apple where it's incredibly difficult to resist the gravitational attraction of something like the iPhone. Nothing …
- I'm Dan Hon, I've had my coffee, and this is Better Strategy Now … If someone did training videos in the style of John Oliver's Last Week Tonight...? Which is why I spent yesterday jurry-rigging my iPhone balanced on top …
- Stop doing that, it's making you look silly … It's 2022 and I use NetNewsWire on my Mac, my iPhone and iPad. NetNewsWire came out in July 2002, which makes it nearly 20 years old, and …
- A certain weariness … I have Apple Music on my laptop and my iPhone and my iPad. I have monthly playlists where I just throw all the stuff I listen to obsessively …
- Absurdity, net-native journalism, Promising No Solutions, Talking and Snow Crashing, chapter 16 … All this is fine and good, and left me with the realization that Square using the headphone jack on the iPhone as inputi for a mag stripe reader …
- Cats; Writing on the Internet; the Moon; OpenDoc and Componentized Software … sensors like what powers FaceID, that Apple have used in respectively iMac and iPhone X. In those cases, my understanding is that Apple's gone out and found …
- The Device Becomes The App? … I’d call them examples of The Device Becomes The App, the sort of argument Steve Jobs made when the iPhone was introduced and it was this slab …
- The One Where I Don't Want To Talk About Substack Just As Much As You Do, And Yet … I wonder when something like auto-magical focus stacking will come to something like an iPhone through computational photography? The main observation I want to get across here …
- The Defensive Patent Pool … Last year’s iPhone 11 had a fantastic explanation of how taking a photo on your phone works now: For a while now, you haven’t been the …
- On The Precipice, supporter edition … game that came out in 2007 (ah, the SXSWi days), back when the iPhone was new and everyone thought location-based stuff was going to be the future …
- On The Precipice … game that came out in 2007 (ah, the SXSWi days), back when the iPhone was new and everyone thought location-based stuff was going to be the future …
- The Location-based Pokemon Game Company … It is, essentially, Niantic’s iPhone, but it’s not their own IP, which again you’d want if you were a games studio, but isn’t necessarily …
- They Write Software That Kills People, Don't They? … Symbian was Nokia’s OS that ran on the phones that most of the world apart from America ran on in the pre-iPhone smartphone era. Symbian was …
- Back on the wagon … When The Verge reviews a phone like Apple’s iPhone 11 , they’re now calling attention to the terms of service that apply, in a section called Agree …
- The ATCR Boundary … I had a problem in a cafe where my iPhone had wifi connectivity but my iPad didn’t (oh, first world problems) and I diagnosed it to the …
- Breaking the rules … Jason disagreed - he thought combadges are more Airpod than iPhone and it turns out I agreed too. Pretty much exactly a month ago: “ Huh, just realized a single …
- Do Better … 2019 and I am still listening to that DJ Shadow track from the iPhone announcement and it is because my taste in music is Basic, but in my …
- The One With The Uneven Mid-Season Two-Parter … And the easiest something is going to be “Vogue, but on an iPhone” and no sooner than you issue an edict to deliver forth “Vogue, but on an …
- Firebreak Protocol … Another sign that this is just going to happen is that you can buy AppleCare+ with Theft and Loss protection for your iPhone, *but* “AppleCare+ with Theft and …
- Change your organization, or change your organization … We took a baseline photograph with an iPhone 8. It was either that or have a biopsy done which (content warning: uh, invasive cutting - they’d cut open …
- You're The Mayor of Terminal B Airside at SMF Airport! … Unrelatedly, I ended up learning that the term for the dot-pattern that the Kinect sensor displays and that the iPhone X also throws out in order to …
- Platforms Corrupt … I think we see traces of this kind of behavior at Apple where it's *incredibly* difficult to resist the gravitational attraction of something like the iPhone. Nothing …
- Nobody expects the hiatus newsletter … my old meter uses Bluetooth to talk to my iPhone and sync with its own service as well as write to my Apple Health data store. (An aside …
- DNS Fan Fiction; 100-watt-hour-Trucks … I'd say now that "trucks" are 100 watt-hour+ perfomance envelope computers. *Everything else* is your regular MacBook or iPad Pro or iPad or iPhone or whatever …
- OVERNIGHT SUCCESS … and then having our jaws collectively kicked out of our skulls when the iPhone came out. We were the people *convinced* that cameraphones were going to be a …
- Funny, I've always believed that the world is what we make of it … There's no "Mac" division fighting against the "iPad" division fighting against the "iPhone" division in the way that Microsoft used to (and maybe still does?) have warring …
- This Generation's Commodore 64 … Program Star Wars BB-8 Droid, Drones, Arduino, Dash and Dot, Sphero, Robots, Hue, Scratch, and Smart Homes on your iPhone and iPad [4] Nick Sweeney on Twitter …
- Gigawatt Laser Array … of-bombardment), the side-effect of wanting to launch a whole bunch of iPhone-sized interstellar probes powered solar sails is that said billionaires are also anticipating building …
- Of Course I Still Love You … a really big iPhone over slightly more years, right?) but I think there's a reasonable argument that Apple would be able to show off the *user interface …
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- Sequencing; Spectrum … That's about when the iPhone 8 will come out. DARPA Funds Stage 2 of XS-1 Spaceplane Design Competition - Terahertz rays are cool and we might have …
- What Twitter Should Do; CXO vs CUO; Shilling … back in mumble mumble (it doesn't matter, just that it was pre-iPhone and SMS texting was a thing) as a microblogging service. Twitter was a *bit …
- What You'll Reap; Foo Thoughts; The Next Generation … accents is an edge case, right? - I seem to remember that if your iPhone locale is set to British, then you get British Siri Idiot Dude, but then …
- Bob Rife Is Real; Digital Secure Confusion … Not actually up to date software on iPhone or Android Digital devices. And remember when we asked if we could use our tablet as a Digital Secure Key …
- 2015 (1); A Manifesto Walks Into A Website; Stuff About The Web And Post Capitalism Again … And what was the brief, anyway? Find a really long-winded way to talk about *everything* that's in the iPhone and why only the iPhone can be …
- Typing, Continued … For iPhone. [3] UI Reel for Avengers: Age of Ultron + Subtraction.com [4] Marvel's Avengers Age of Ultron UI Reel - YouTube [5] Territory Studio [6] Max Borenstein …
- Sending Signals; So We Solved Publishing; 2015 (1) … On one level, this is a bit bullshit because the Apple Watch won't even *work* without an iPhone, so it's not like they're cannibalising sales …
- Use Google Docs, They Said; Digital Media; Force Touch; Product + Practice … And then if you have that, then how does it translate to something like an iPhone or iPad display? I mean, look at the size of the trackpad …
- "Everybody"; The Webb Scale; Algorithms … EVERYBODY CAN RIDE Use your iPhone or Android to board. Or if you don't have a smartphone, you can print a paper pass. I just want to …
- Compiling Consciousness.dat; No Apple TV; Negging, but for A.I.s … the worldbuilding aspect of what happens when the equivalent of everyone-with-an-iPhone gets an artificial general intelligence"; - Transcendence[2] is *literally* silly, I am not sure …
- What Apple Is … The thing that Apple appears to be doing right now - that they started with the iPod, that they honed with the iPhone and again with the iPad and …
- Episode One Hundred and Ninety Five: … no, not as bad as they were in 2007, when there was no iPhone, because Tesla exists), b) does Apple think that it can beat Tesla? (Maybe, who …
- Internet of Capitalism; Internet of Things Winter; Transmogrify … milling machines.” (Apple didn’t confirm that figure, but Brunner was not being hyperbolic.) Soon after the iPhone débuted, Brunner said, Ammunition was approached by “a very large …
- Web Directions South; A Thousand Songs In Your Pocket; Odds … What Happened Next, which was the steamrollering they received from Apple when the iPhone came out that felt like it might be inevitable but certainly not *this* inevitable …
- Who's Afraid Of Infrastructure; White Hats; Utopias; Chinese Room Mobs … in order for an iPhone to make your life easier, a number of Chinese workers must make their lives rather more difficult. The benefits of technology are not …
- Unicorns; Six Minus … Not in the majority of organisations. [1] Rands in Repose 2.0 Six Minus Five minutes with the new iPhone, the Minus version, and already it's as …
- After All; 2014 (7) … ability to see into the near infrared just by eating lots of vitamin A2. -- 12:10am. iPhone 6'd up. I am a puppet, pull my strings. Dan
- She Who Wears The Digital Crown; Designing Community … Why you need the iPhone, the iPod or the iPad. The market might not have been large enough or ready yet, certainly in the case of the iPod …
- The Networked Lens; Twitch; Sufficient Density … 1] Somebody [2] Maneki Neko - Bruce Sterling [3] The Latest Chat App for iPhone Needs No Internet Connection - MIT Tech Review [4] Little Brother - Cory Doctorow -- 10:20pm …
- Not Doing A Nick Bilton; Counterexamples; echofuckingpraxia … When a user knows that their iPhone will lock if the enter the wrong password five times in a row, it is reasonable that their assumption would be …
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- What Are The Civilian Applications?; The Way The World Works; Seeing Like A SpamSieve … Your iPhone 5S weighs 112 grams and runs a dual-core 64bit processor manufactured on a 28 nanometer process clocked at 1.2GHz. Technology has moved on. Of …
- Sketchy; Don't Call It Sharing; Walking Sensors, Contd.; 2014 (3) … the loaded term Sketchiness, issues around moderation, opaque usage of public data, the launch availability of the app on iPhones only. There's two things I would've …
- Digital Watches; Stay In Control; Unreasonable Empathy; Odds … The counter-argument, of course, is that their absence from their families helped produce the iPhone and the iPad and everything else that... what? Bring lots of joy …
- 17.5; Other Newsletters Are Available; SNOWPIERCER WALKTHROUGH V12.03 … This is a walkthrough for the first-person action adventure game, NOT a walkthrough or strategy guide for the iPhone/Android game TINY SNOWPIERCER by Nimblebit studios. SNOWPIERCER …
- Transparency Through Bot; Mundane Fictional Spytech; The Horizontal Arcology … room switcharoos in the hotel run on a cradle with a standard-issue iPhone) or just, you know, on regular Apple hardware. It's one of those things …
- The Material (3); Odds … The fact that Apple's M7 has been incorporated into the iPhone 5S is a red herring from my point of view. They thought they wouldn't be …
- Clarity; The Customer … Apple has reinvented the mobile phone with its revolutionary iPhone and App Store, and is defining the future of mobile media and computing devices with iPad." This is …
- Recurring; Better, But Not Best … Quite how you're supposed to back up your iPhone with 5GB of free storage when the average iPhone is pretty much already full of photos and video …
- Email Is Still A Killer App; Dubya Dubya Dee Cee … HTML (apart from if you read this in Gmail for iOS on an iPhone in which case the formatting is really terrible. Sorry about that.) But there's …
- Yet More Smarts; The Continued Tyranny; A Different Kind Of Overload … One of the things I did lately when I reset my iPhone in a valiant attempt to fix its battery life was to go into Background App Refresh …
- Supply Chain Management For Seven Billion; Too Early; WATCH_DOGS … I ended up looking today at a friends-only wiki page that had advice for choosing a mobile phone in the pre-iPhone era, lots of talk about …
- Smarts; The Real Internet … and play a video" and everyone wants one era that something like the iPhone ushered in. So part of the question is this: what are the missing pieces …
- But It Keeps Going … Or how big an iPhone might be or whether Oculus is building the Metaverse or if Xbox is losing to PlayStation. I don't care.
- Apple and Nike; Critiquing Everyone Deserves Great Design; Odds … hardware will be produced - Apple introduced the M7 motion co-processor in the iPhone 5S in 2013, demoed on stage with Nike+ Move - Certain Nike+ mobile software was …
- Disbanded; The Responsive OS … Nike and Apple have always been close, from the very first Nike+/iPod collaboration to the announcement of the iPhone 5S' M7 motion co-processor and demo of …
- We Have Always Been At War; Our Independence Day; Spimes, Duh … So at least you get clarity of vision for products like iPhone or iPad that way. But for everyone else, and for everyone else, chances are blindingly highly …
- Kill Hollywood, Still; Sandwiches; Apple and Samsung, Still; A Weak Signal … But that's what jumping in right at the deep end is, and a bit like the move that Apple did with the original iPhone. They'd never …
- a16z Strikes Again; Xbawks; Inside Baseball; The Continuity Field … This most recent post[1] covers the emails disclosed during Apple and Samsung's latest go-around on the iPhone patents spat, and it's rare that people …
- Disintermediation & Externalisation; Housing; Odds … in things like: "which headphones should I buy?", or "What's a good iPhone external battery?" Gosh, I mean: you take all of this stuff and roll it …
- Not Yet A Phyle; Ready Player One; Fantasy Acquisitions … And then ate the mobile phone industry with the iPhone, which had everything to do with personal computing, because *get this* - phones are way lower down Maslow's …
- Snow Crashing 3; Video is a Content-Type; Blame Your Tools … Interactive work, say, building a web application that shows you running routes on your smartphone or a branded iPhone app that lets you give a Coke to someone …
- IP and the Federation; A Thousand Digital Hubs In Your Pocket; Your Server Recommends … The idea that the digital hub is your iPhone or whichever portable device you're using and that terminal, with its physical instantiation and opportunity to be the …
- Shorts; Code as Law; The Real Revolution; The Flip … One of the favourite stories that I like to tell is about Tetris, Angry Birds, Game Boys and iPhones. I say: there was a time when Tetris could …
- The Auto Show, Learning to Code and Niggling Thoughts … Young people these days, they'd love an autonomous robot vacuum that they could control with their iPhone. And they live in tiny flats or apartments now with …
- Attention, Star Trek and Cars … Cars were, as Matt pointed out, just large iPhone docks. BMW rep said that the company that made Ultimate Driving Machines was on its way out, and it …
- The Cult of Making, Shooting Fish In Jean Michel Jarre's Barrel … At Jarre's *low end* of $300, he reckons that *One Hundred And Fifty Billion Dollars* of iPhone revenue - and that's just iPhone revenue! Not even touching …
- Rate All The Things … This is going to sound a bit Gruber-y, but Apple at least survives if you take away the iPhone or the iPad. Google doesn't survive if …