While comparing Google Glass to a (theoretical) Apple-made watch, Ken Segall makes this observation: Second, there’s the company’s love of humanity. That is, Apple has never created technology for technology’s sake. It creates technology that strikes a chord with human beings. I’d restate that in
Technology inherently alters how we live, what we do, how we think, how we die. Modern medicine has turned many diseases that, when contracted, brought along death more often than not into things of the past or minor annoyances, and injuries that would have been debilitating or deadly into ones
The U.S. has a relatively large amount of highly-skilled people who come here to go to school and then find work. And after they do that, we put their life in limbo for years: “I know this country better than my own country, and I still feel like
Chase Oliver (https://medium.com/editors-picks/d988ce4520b2): If you’re selling a vacuum, don’t start by pitching its bells and whistles. Instead, sell a clean home. It’s the reason people look to buy a vacuum in the first place. Once you’ve established that you understand — or
The Xbox One sounds really nice, and the reason why has nothing to do with games: “Xbox,” she says, and a small faint Xbox logo in the upper right-hand corner of the screen begins to glow; the Kinect is listening. “ESPN,” she finishes. The guide, which is currently highlighting
The people at FiftyThree have a terrific look at designing Paper’s new zoom feature: In this case, however, it was one of those ideas that our co-founder Andrew Allen had stored in the back of his mind, and we knew it was right the first time we looked
A terrific retrospective from Marco Arment about his days working on Tumblr with David Karp: David always had a vision for where he wanted to go next. I was never the “idea guy” — in addition to my coding and back-end duties, I often served as an idea editor. David
Nick Bolton reports on the development of robots to aide in elderly care: Sherry Turkle, a professor of science, technology and society at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and author of the book “Alone Together: Why We Expect More From Technology and Less From Each Other,” did a series of
Ken Segall on Apple’s camera iPhone ad: What this commercial does so well is capture the human side of technology. It’s a reflection of daily life, and it’s easy to see ourselves in it. The ad shows us how essential our phones have become, enabling us to
Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy and Richard Linklater discuss “Before Midnight” (http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/05/movies/ethan-hawke-and-julie-delpy-discuss-before-midnight.html?_r=1&&pagewanted=all): Hawke: The first two films are so much about romantic projection. The third had to be the
Jean-Louis Gassée: Some read the decision to return gobs of cash to shareholders as an admission of defeat. Apple has given up making big moves, as in one or more big acquisitions. I don’t agree: We ought to be glad that the Apple execs (and their wise advisers)
Circles is a new iOS memory (http://www.builtbysnowman.com/circles/) by Built By Snowman. Beautiful app, and beautifully simple, too. They’re donating a portion of all revenue to an Alzheimer’s charity as well, which is just terrific. Check it out. * Member of the Read & Trust network.