I got to spend about 30 minutes Monday afternoon using a Vision Pro and VisionOS at Apple Park, in a temporary “field house” building Apple constructed specifically for this experience. This was a one
Apple kicked off the 2023 edition of WWDC, its developer conference, with a 2-hour long keynote that saw the company announce the next versions of its five operating systems( iOS , watchOS , iPad OS ,
Contents It’s been a fantastic year for WebKit. We’ve shipped eight Safari releases since WWDC22, with more than 140 new web technologies in the first half of 2023 alone. Now, we are pleased to announ
It used to be just technology journalists and privacy advocates who got excited about the new privacy features that Apple would announce at its annual Worldwide Developers Conference. Now, data privac
Strategic leadership can often sound abstract and hard to put into words. Not only that, the majority of the CTOs, VPs and engineering leaders I work with are so busy running from meeting to meeting,
Credit... Photograph by Jamie Chung. Concept by Pablo Delcan. The Great Read Whether the platform is dying or not, it’s time to reckon with how exactly it broke our brains. Credit... Photograph by Jam
Ask yourself this: what do you want from a sequel to The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild? More enemy variety? Better dungeons? Totally unexpected new ideas? Or is simply more Hyrule to explore eno
Six years on from the debut of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild - a genre-defining title launched on the first proper handheld console hybrid - comes the long-awaited release of The Legend of Z
In 2015, Google hatched a plan to save the mobile web by effectively taking it over. And for a while, the media industry had practically no choice but to play along. It began on a cheery October morni
When they last sat down for an interview, in November 2020, Barack Obama told Atlantic editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg that disinformation is “ the single biggest threat to our democracy .” The threa
In “ The 46 Mac Apps I Actually Use and Why ” (19 April 2023), I noted that the first app I installed after my Level 2 clean install was the Web browser Brave and that, just weeks later, I replaced it
On Friday, the Federal Aviation Administration issued a license for SpaceX to launch the first orbital test of Starship, the largest rocket in human history, as soon as this Monday, April 17th. I pred
Ellis Hamburger was a reporter for The Verge between 2012 and 2014 before leaving to work at Snapchat. After leaving Snap last year, he went to work at The Browser Company. We asked Ellis to write abo
Part of / You, me, and UI The Apple Lisa was not, by nearly any definition, a hit product. Released in 1983, the ambitious but flawed machine was instantly overshadowed by Apple’s follow-up, the 1984
Ten years ago ( from last Saturday ) I launched Stratechery with an image of sailboats: A simple image. Two boats, and a big ocean. Perhaps it’s a race, and one boat is winning — until it isn’t, of co
A stone monument in downtown Savannah marks what was probably Georgia’s first road, the construction of which got underway in 1735. Beginning in Madison Square, the Ogeechee Road ended some 60 miles s
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In the mid-2000s, I was approached by a tech entrepreneur who was a fan of classical music and had a foundation that supported many classical artists. He had contacted me because of articles I had wri
Introduction: In the early 1990s, two Russian artists named Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid took the unusual step of hiring a market research firm. Their brief was simple. Understand what Americans
No one ever went broke taking a profit Unlike companies that reinvest all or most of the money back into the company every year, we take money (profit) out every year in the form of distributions (we’
We are in the middle of a massive shift in the way people use and buy software. It’s been well over a decade since Salesforce brought software to the cloud. Apple put digital experiences in people’s
Rules of thumb, and general philosophy Below you’ll find a collection of general principles we try to keep in mind at 37signals when making decisions. They aren’t requirements, and this isn’t a compre
In September 2020, a new social network named Telepath launched. I had been beta-testing it for over a year before it debuted, at the invitation of Marc Bodnick , one of Telepath’s co-founders and a Q
I recently purchased a Mazda Miata . This car is interesting because instead of running on electricity, it is powered by a combustible liquid called gasoline. The vehicle has an engine that mixes the
The Market for Lemons February 4, 2023 For most of the past decade, I have spent a considerable fraction of my professional life consulting with teams building on the web. It is not going well. Not on
Introduction At Stripe, we think a lot about scale. As we’ve scaled our products to process billions of dollars a year for millions of businesses, we’ve also needed to scale our engineering team. Ther
Guest Essay Noam Chomsky: The False Promise of ChatGPT March 8, 2023 Credit... By Ruru Kuo By Noam Chomsky, Ian Roberts and Dr. Chomsky and Dr. Roberts are professors of linguistics. Dr. Watumull is a
I realize how it sounds, but I'm going to say it anyway because it's the truth. When I first clapped eyes on the World Wide Web, I fell in love. Here's how I described the experience in a 2016 post ab
Microsoft is making a desperate play. Having spent billions on a search engine that no one uses , the company has sunk billions more into equipping it with the chatbot technology ChatGPT, on the theor
Product vs. Feature Teams This article is certain to upset many people. I’m sorry for that, but the degree of ongoing noise and confusion surrounding the role of product at tech companies is only gett
8 min read · Jan 24 -- How did the company that aspired to be so much more come to this? Photo by Kai Wenzel on Unsplash Recently, Google announced it was laying off approximately 6% of its workforce
Enlarge / What might have been. Lee Hutchinson / NASA / NOAA February 1, 2023: One of the most tragic events in the history of space exploration is the loss of the space shuttle Columbia and all seven
Koos Looijesteijn I design at ForTomorrow . I’m an immigrant in Berlin, geriatric millennial, edge case, papa. “It could have been so great, but why is it so ugly and difficult to use?” people trying
My post before this was a kind of therapy / Buddhism / personal growth kind of deal, but I also spend a lot of time thinking about how to run effective teams and to be a responsible, thoughtful manage
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