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Bob Burrough
@bob_burrough
Co-creator iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch. Smuggled Steve Jobs first iPhone out of China.
Jan 5, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
AI is user interface. As imperative programming is replaced in favor of AI-driven programming, the person sitting at the console becomes less of a programmer and more like a director.

"Add a field that represents color values."
"Compute the stddev of the set of all known values."
Jan 3, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Artificial intelligence is real. ...and it's here. Right now. I have long been both a student of ML and critical of those who claim that SGD is a form of intelligence.

I previously made the case that deep learning was little more than glorified statistics. However, with enough compute, statistics can respresent anything.
Sep 29, 2019 • 13 tweets • 3 min read
A couple more days and I'm convinced that haptics on iOS are a disaster. I find myself being distracted by random clicks when doing things like browsing in Safari. e.g. Reading dense text is a slow scroll...often slow enough that Haptic Touch thinks you're long-pressing. Imagine reading a book and having it randomly jolt you out of your concentration. That's what iOS is doing.
May 15, 2018 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Interesting perspective. I am not so sure that Google doesn't care about your privacy. When was the last time your search history leaked? Wouldn't that be unbelievably damaging to Google if it did?
Apr 15, 2018 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Google decided to redesign the Nest interface. Now I have to re-learn how to use the thermostat in my own home. Before, the controls were "pinned" to the ring, and whichever was in the up position was the active one. Now the controls are pinned to the wall, and ring moves the active position around. It's conceptually opposite of what it was before.
Apr 1, 2018 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
AR is a white elephant. First, the resolution of AR displays will be far lower than that of traditional displays. And that's not gonna change any time soon.
Mar 17, 2018 • 7 tweets • 1 min read
Regarding the idea that smartphones are leading to a world of largely homogenized ideas, where outliers are ostracized... themenu.bar/show/2018/3/16… I don't know, but maybe it's that people have always wanted to oppress their peers, but they've never really had the ability until everyone went online.
Feb 17, 2018 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
Proposal for a new Apple environmental protection initiative: collect enough solar energy to offset the energy consumption of world's entire population of iPhones. Here's how it would work... iPhone uses roughly 1 kWh per year. That's the same amount of energy it takes to run ten 100 watt light bulbs for an hour. With 1.5 billion iPhones in active use, that's 1.5 trillion watt hours every year.