Apple’s tiny connector was announced in 2012 alongside the iPhone 5. It was a genuinely revolutionary port: tiny, reversible, and super easy to use, setting the stage for the existence of USB-C today. Unfortunately, USB-C’s ubiquity makes it so much better, and as the Lightning cable turns 10... we can’t wait to see it go away.
Billy Mitchell, famously the “villain” of the documentary King of Kong, has been wracked by cheating allegations in recent years, including in a new report out this week. It’s not that Mitchell isn’t really good at Donkey Kong, it’s that he might be really good at the wrong version of it: the emulated version, instead of the arcade version, as the report alleges.
A moment from the Cook/Ive/Laurene Powell Jobs conversation at Code has been stuck in my head since Wednesday night, and I was finally able to revisit the video recording this morning. While discussing car design, Powell Jobs gestures to two people beside her on stage and says:
“I know you guys don’t love the design of Tesla, but I appreciate the degree of its safety. It’s really quite nice.”
There were only three other people on that stage: Cook, Ive, and Kara Swisher. I’m pretty sure I know who she was gesturing to.
