There was a big announcement this week from Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, that his company is buying a device startup called io, launched by former Apple designer Jony Ive, for $6.5 billion. Altman said they will be “figuring out how to create a family… Read More »The Whisper: Imagining the Device Jony Ive and Sam Altman Might Be Building
It’s the time of the year when the rumors begin about the new generations of iPhones due out in the Fall and whether it’s worth upgrading to a new model. Let me get to the point. Absolutely not. The iPhone is falling behind in incorporating… Read More »The iPhone upgrade question answered
Throughout my product development career I’ve used Asian resources to supplement the work being done in the U.S. to bring new consumer tech products to market more quickly. When designing cameras at Polaroid in the 80s, I worked with Japanese camera manufacturers. Years later when… Read More »Apple in China – How Apple was captured by China
Low cost manufacturing in China has taken manufacturing jobs from this country, but that doesn’t tell the real story of its economic impact. It misses one of the great benefits of China manufacturing: by being able to have China produce products at lower costs, it… Read More »How China manufacturing has actually created American jobs
Newark’s recent air corridor failures are not just about radar outages or overworked air traffic controllers. They’re about something much bigger — the convergence of negligence, performative politics, and Silicon Valley hubris. What was it’s cause? There is blame to go around: the gutting of… Read More »Don’t let the doges in
It’s the time of the year when the rumors begin about the new generations of iPhone 17 due out in the Fall and whether it’s worth upgrading to a new model. It’s a ritual that began ever since Apple introduced their iPhones eighteen years ago.… Read More »iPhones are becoming boring
Throughout my career in product development I’ve used Asian resources to supplement the work being done in the U.S. to bring new consumer tech products to market more quickly. When I worked at Polaroid in the 80s designing cameras, I used companies in Japan that… Read More »Apple in China, the story of Apple’s capture by China
Low cost manufacturing in China has taken manufacturing jobs from this country, but that does not tell the entire story about the economic impact it has had. (Why it happened and what can be done about it is a column in itself.) That viewpoint misses… Read More »The false economics of China manufacturing
With new tariffs being imposed, our diet of cheap gadgets that we find on Amazon may be coming to an end. Some say we overbuy and don’t need most of the stuff we find there, especially the products from no-name companies in China. But as… Read More »Cheap but useful products found on Amazon
In his first 100 days back in the White House, Donald Trump has dramatically reshaped the landscape of the U.S. tech industry, something I’ve been a part of over my entire career. He’s had an impact like no other president in such a short time.… Read More »Trump upends the tech industry