It might have made some sense to bring someone from the fashion/brand world to lead software design for Apple Watch, but it sure didn’t seem to make sense for the rest of Apple’s platforms. And the decade of Dye’s HI leadership has proven it.
Lees meerChance Miller: Alan Dye, Apple’s vice president of Human Interface Design since 2015, is departing the company. Bloomberg reports that Meta has poached Dye as part of its push “into AI-equipped consumer devices.” Stephen Lemay, a 26-year Apple desig…
Lees meerTyler Hall: Maybe it’s because my eyes are getting old or maybe it’s because the contrast between windows on macOS keeps getting worse. Either way, I built a tiny Mac app last night that draws a border around the active window. I named it “Alan”. Ni…
Lees meerAditya Kalra and Munsif Vengattil (MacRumors): India’s telecoms ministry has privately asked smartphone makers to preload all new devices with a state-owned cyber security app that cannot be deleted, a government order showed, a move likely to antag…
Lees meerHoward Oakley (Hacker News): Over the last few weeks I’ve been discovering problems that have been eroding confidence in macOS. From text files that simply won’t show up in Spotlight search, to Clock timers that are blank and don’t function, there’s…
Lees meerJarred Sumner (via Hacker News): Bun has been acquired by Anthropic. Anthropic is betting on Bun as the infrastructure powering Claude Code, Claude Agent SDK, and future AI coding products & tools.[…]Bun stays open-source & MIT-licensedBun continues…
Lees meerMitch Stone: According to Activity Monitor, the corespotlightd process often occupies more than 100% of the CPU load, sometimes spiking as high as 400% on my M2 Ultra Mac Studio. This problem has become so severe that it often pinwheels under normal…
Lees meerGary Leff (Hacker News): According to aviation insiders, there’s a possible grounding of Airbus narrowbodies coming worldwide.[…]10-15 passengers were hospitalized after the aircraft rapidly descended without being instructed by pilots to do so. The…
Lees meerApple (Hacker News, MacRumors, The Register, NY Times, TechCrunch): Apple today announced John Giannandrea, Apple’s senior vice president for Machine Learning and AI Strategy, is stepping down from his position and will serve as an advisor to the co…
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