–Figma CEO Dylan Field, in the unenviable position of having to reflect on an old tweet.
Field tweeted last year that Figma’s goal “is to be Figma not Adobe.” Fast forward to today and... Figma is going to be part of Adobe! My colleague Jay Peters spoke with the two companies’ leaders about what the merger means for designers everywhere.
The app was released on this day 10 years ago... and immediately became a laughingstock, leading to multiple people getting canned and a public apology from Tim Cook.
Now that Maps is a good enough product to warrant advertising, my big question is: when does Apple release a version for Android or the web? Apple made an alternative to Google Maps — now it needs to make a real competitor.
If you pay Twitter, at least. The latest feature to join the Twitter Blue subscription is early access to the redesigned Spaces tab on iOS, which includes support for tuning into podcasts.
I am not entirely convinced this will take off (short-form social network + long-form audio = 🤨), but I can see a compelling use case if Twitter eventually lets podcasters promote clips from their shows. My colleague Ariel Shapiro wrote about the launch last month:
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.
