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Ken Kocienda

@kocienda
25 posts
2023-11-10
watch the vid!
2023-11-10 View on X
Wired

Humane plans to open Ai Pin pre-orders on November 16, starting at $699 plus $24/month for unlimited calls, texts, and data via T-Mobile, shipping in early 2024

Are they trying to succeed? … @sdw@mastodon.social : I don't have a wisecrack or snark — this takes a lot of courage and a lot of vision to do.  It's worth celebrating that there's...

2023-11-09
Lots of @Humane Ai Pin news coming tomorrow. Sign up on the waitlist today to get early access to shop Ai Pin and get prioritized delivery too! https://hu.ma.ne/...
2023-11-09 View on X
The Verge

Documents detail Humane's $699 Ai Pin: a $24/month subscription, including a phone number, data, cloud storage, and access to Microsoft and OpenAI AI models

It's scheduled to launch the Pin on Thursday, but The Verge has obtained documents detailing practically everything about the device ahead of its official launch.

2023-06-07
I think it's extraordinarily telling that no Apple exec posed for photos wearing the thing.
2023-06-07 View on X
Bloomberg

Apple Vision Pro may take at least five years before it's seen as an iPhone alternative, let alone a product killer, as Apple still needs to address its quirks

2023-04-22
feeling buzzy https://www.theverge.com/...
2023-04-22 View on X
The Verge

Humane co-founder Imran Chaudhri demoed an AI-powered screenless wearable with a projector to display info, voice and gestures for input, and no phone required

Humane, the startup founded by ex-Apple employees Imran Chaudhri and Bethany Bongiorno, has given a first live demo of its new device …

2022-07-27
Products need to change to keep up, especially in the face of competition. I get it. However, wrenching a product to be something radically different than what people want it and expect it to be probably won't help. That isn't evolution, it's desperation. https://twitter.com/...
2022-07-27 View on X
CNBC

Responding to criticism, Adam Mosseri says Instagram's full-screen feed is “a test” that is “not yet good” and that the app has to lean into the shift to video

2022-04-28
Recently, @JoannaStern contacted me to talk about autocorrect, the concepts I put into the first iPhone system, and how things have played out over the years since I moved onto other companies and projects. Here's our chat, in all its ducking glory. https://www.youtube.com/...
2022-04-28 View on X
Wall Street Journal

An overview of the iPhone's autocorrect feature and how it has evolved, including an interview with Ken Kocienda, who created the autocorrect keyboard software

Tpying truble?  During the iPhone's first 15 years, its keyboard software has evolved, but it still sometimes flubs your lines.

The original iPhone needed a practical software keyboard. My first autocorrect system filled that gap, and I'm proud of my work to make it happen. Autocorrect made it possible for people to type on a sheet of glass, but no, it didn't always get it right.
2022-04-28 View on X
Wall Street Journal

An overview of the iPhone's autocorrect feature and how it has evolved, including an interview with Ken Kocienda, who created the autocorrect keyboard software

Tpying truble?  During the iPhone's first 15 years, its keyboard software has evolved, but it still sometimes flubs your lines.

Building a trustworthy piece of software is as much about not doing the wrong thing as it is doing the right thing, and I think many developers don't quite understand how one weird result can undo the positive perceptions from fifty good results.
2022-04-28 View on X
Wall Street Journal

An overview of the iPhone's autocorrect feature and how it has evolved, including an interview with Ken Kocienda, who created the autocorrect keyboard software

Tpying truble?  During the iPhone's first 15 years, its keyboard software has evolved, but it still sometimes flubs your lines.

Autocorrect is as much psychology as technology. When I made the autocorrect system for the original iPhone, I thought a lot about whether people would understand the results they got. Even if people didn't get want they want, I still wanted the results to seem sensible. https://twitter.com/...
2022-04-28 View on X
Wall Street Journal

An overview of the iPhone's autocorrect feature and how it has evolved, including an interview with Ken Kocienda, who created the autocorrect keyboard software

Tpying truble?  During the iPhone's first 15 years, its keyboard software has evolved, but it still sometimes flubs your lines.

2022-04-13
I'm afraid the actual value structure inside big tech companies is far more political and dog-eat-dog than we'd like to admit. 5/
2022-04-13 View on X
New York Times

Many tech companies, eager to please employees returning to offices, are providing perks like concerts with pop stars, food trucks, and “appreciation events”

New York Times :

It must be common for people to think the big tech company they work for specifically values them for the thing they're good at and like to focus on: writing code, QA, project management, whatever. 2/
2022-04-13 View on X
New York Times

Many tech companies, eager to please employees returning to offices, are providing perks like concerts with pop stars, food trucks, and “appreciation events”

New York Times :

Since most people have continued doing those specific tasks remotely since the pandemic started (and better! and more!), they expect the company to recognize that and make appropriate accommodations to the changed working styles of the past two-plus years. 3/
2022-04-13 View on X
New York Times

Many tech companies, eager to please employees returning to offices, are providing perks like concerts with pop stars, food trucks, and “appreciation events”

New York Times :

Only, big tech companies generally don't value individuals for their specific tech work, and certainly not in a way that matches the mental model built up over years by a lot of folks. 4/
2022-04-13 View on X
New York Times

Many tech companies, eager to please employees returning to offices, are providing perks like concerts with pop stars, food trucks, and “appreciation events”

New York Times :

Apparently, this has come as a surprise to many. Thus, the compulsory call back to the office has caused much dismay and much angst is felt. 6/end
2022-04-13 View on X
New York Times

Many tech companies, eager to please employees returning to offices, are providing perks like concerts with pop stars, food trucks, and “appreciation events”

New York Times :

2021-06-20
Here's an even better reason to generate goodwill: it's the right thing to do. The world is a better place when everyone tries to help each other, and a worse place when everyone tries stick it to each other because they believe they can get away with it. https://twitter.com/...
2021-06-20 View on X
6FPS

Apple, whose arrogance and sense of entitlement let it treat developers as a hassle for two decades, will find few allies as it fights looming regulation

arrogance. An expectation that the developers need Apple, so Apple doesn't have to reciprocate.” 🎯 https://twitter.com/... Chuq Von Rospach / @chuq : I don't write about Apple much...

@siegel To round this back to the start, Apple could treat its developers so much better. It wouldn't even be that difficult or expensive relative to the bottom lines they have these days. Why not do it?
2021-06-20 View on X
6FPS

Apple, whose arrogance and sense of entitlement let it treat developers as a hassle for two decades, will find few allies as it fights looming regulation

arrogance. An expectation that the developers need Apple, so Apple doesn't have to reciprocate.” 🎯 https://twitter.com/... Chuq Von Rospach / @chuq : I don't write about Apple much...

@siegel It's a wonderfully clear concept: tell people who you believe your stakeholders are and what your goals are for serving them. It creates the responsibility for future accountability.
2021-06-20 View on X
6FPS

Apple, whose arrogance and sense of entitlement let it treat developers as a hassle for two decades, will find few allies as it fights looming regulation

arrogance. An expectation that the developers need Apple, so Apple doesn't have to reciprocate.” 🎯 https://twitter.com/... Chuq Von Rospach / @chuq : I don't write about Apple much...

2021-06-05
The iOS SDK experience taught me an important lesson: APIs matter. Before we ever expected to share our code with the wider world, we chose useful abstractions, we picked good names, and we thought about the future. We reaped the benefits.
2021-06-05 View on X
TechCrunch

A 2007 email between Steve Jobs and then Apple SVP of Software Engineering, approving 3rd party iPhone apps and an App Store, surfaces among Epic trial docs

An email has been going around the internet as a part of a release of documents related to Apple's App Store based suit brought by Epic Games.

The aggressive schedule was possible because we *already had* good APIs. We used them to ship the 1.0 iPhone! The SDK task became making those internal APIs public. Much of that was name scrubbing and deciding what features we cared to support for the long haul. https://twitter.com/...
2021-06-05 View on X
TechCrunch

A 2007 email between Steve Jobs and then Apple SVP of Software Engineering, approving 3rd party iPhone apps and an App Store, surfaces among Epic trial docs

An email has been going around the internet as a part of a release of documents related to Apple's App Store based suit brought by Epic Games.

We rewrote very few classes. One of them was mine. The UITextView in the SDK was new, and while we tried to move all our own clients to use it, I recall that Notes continued to use a renamed pre-SDK UILegacyTextView for a couple versions.
2021-06-05 View on X
TechCrunch

A 2007 email between Steve Jobs and then Apple SVP of Software Engineering, approving 3rd party iPhone apps and an App Store, surfaces among Epic trial docs

An email has been going around the internet as a part of a release of documents related to Apple's App Store based suit brought by Epic Games.