in 1995, while interning at apple, i bought a NeXT cube for $150 at stanford surplus
while designing mac os X with steve, he liked to tell us how the NeXT was better
so i started bringing in my cube to win arguments by showing him that things weren't as good as he remembered
Imran Chaudhri
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- Replying to @imranchaudhrithis happened so often that it got to the point where if he walked in and saw the cube in the room, he’d just let it go still the best $150 i’ve spent happy 20 years mac os x!
- a few fun facts to celebrate 5 years of #AppleWatch here’s a photo taken of the team on launch day, that’s me in the centre. (the beard ages me but my wife @bella_bongiorno won’t let me leave home without it)
- the rumours are true... the smartphone is dead and coming next year from @Humane, the world’s first device built from the ground up for AI
- Replying to @imranchaudhrii created the solar watch face as a way for muslims observing ramadan to quickly see the position of the sun and for all to understand the sun's relationship to time. #RamadanMubarak
- 10 years later, the original iphone design team. ift.tt/2iY7DGd
- it took us a while to get to today. now that we’re here, we can’t wait to show you what the next few years will be like @Humane —exciting times!
- cosmOS running gpt-4o + gemini on ai pin at the same time. “wrappers” are for hip hop
00:00 - Replying to @imranchaudhrihere’s a reproduction of my original sketch for the home screen. the shape of the circular icon was driven by the clock that lived in the centre of what i originally called the dock. the crown gave the home screen a dimensionality, allowing you to scrub through layers of the ui.
- cosmOS 1.2 on ai pin new website, new update, new price. remember that i love…to build.
00:00 - Replying to @imranchaudhrithe butterflies in the motion watch face were shot and animated by @zuckermanstudio. none were harmed, they had already passed. andrew just gave them life. here’s the blue 🦋 he lives with us now:
- for iphone 1: the original mac, blade runner, 2001: a space odyssey, sony walkman TPS-L2, braun ET66, the concorde, massimo vignale, henry dreyfuss, apollo 11, the beatles, warp records, NASA, polaroid, arthur c. clarke, eero saarinen among others…This Post is from an account that no longer exists. Learn more








