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they reviewed work, they decided whether a design might pass muster with Steve while also estimating whether Henri’s programming team could implement the idea in a high-performance, bug-free manner given the remaining time in the schedule.
Ken Kocienda • Creative Selection: Inside Apple's Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs
Strategically, accepting “good enough” in both of these areas makes sense, because neither applications nor sensors are unique strengths for Apple to the same extent as their ability to integrate healthcare data. And as we mentioned before, niche health devices can be challenging businesses, requiring high of R&D and manufacturing fixed costs, but ... See more
Nathan Baschez • Not Found
From the outside, Substack's strategy has seemed to be the following: 1) Create a beautiful, simple blogging platform, which Substack most certainly is. 2) Very slowly release control of who can use Substack to create cachet. 3) Pay some people to post to the site, but not most of them. (Sub-strategy: Don't disclose who's working for Substack and w... See more
Adam Keesling • Substack Rhymes With Medium
it is generally the case that most large companies, certainly most large enterprise companies, don’t innovate on UX and UI. Why they fail to do so I find is a fascinating question, but why is Figma possible? Why is Stripe possible? That’s because large companies, for whatever reason, don’t build great interfaces
Ben Thompson • An Interview With Daniel Gross and Nat Friedman about the Democratization of AI
Ultimately, I see the embrace of curation as a mark of maturation of the technology industry. Today’s technology companies have massive amounts of influence over what people the world over see and consume, and while there is a long ways to go when it comes to transparency about what is seen and why, at least everyone is now being honest about posse... See more
Ben Thompson • Curation and Algorithms
In fact, the general model for successful tech companies, contrary to myth and legend, is that they become distribution-centric rather than product-centric.
Elad Gil • High Growth Handbook: Scaling Startups From 10 to 10,000 People
just as tech success is built years in advance, so is failure