The exact watch series 10 display size kinda fits perfectly if you combine the leaked thickness/dimensions of the iPhone 17 Air and the camera redesign of the 17 Pro. If the body were Pro Max size/bigger you could prob fit 3 cameras… Maybe this is the rumored 2026-7 flip iPhone.

Issue is they fundamentally dont know how to innovate in software esp w iPhone. Craft in a league of their own but w all the resources/talent, theyre still philosophically rudderless—AI’s just a perfect storm to showcase that inability to take swings at new value/not play catchup

Not convinced of a real 10x convenience factor here that outweighs the steep cultural/social etiquette hill. Wireless AirPods were weird looking for less than a year before normalizing—I doubt cameras on your face and empty gazing ahead at a private HUD will have the same story.

thanks gpt i'll take your word for it

“It’ll prob be subtle like some shimmering borders here and there” they said

They're showing us the next era of iPhone industrial design (rumored all-glass, curved, bezeless iPhone 20) without actually showing it. "our new design blurs the lines between hardware and software" doesn't really make sense yet but will in two yrs.

Using iOS 26b, The app icons are bad. The contrast/legibility is bad. The new cramped tab bar/collapsing UX is bad. The search bar being reachable is nice. The organic button to menu transitions are awesome. The liquid glass light refractions and depth is actually… incredible.

Needs work and I still can’t handle the sharp glowy/tacky app icons but using ios 26 for the past day, it hit me that I’m just… really happy skeuomorphism is kind of back. (if it took an army of designers and engineers then so bet it lol also pls make all animations 30% faster)

For all our organizational faults this was an exceptional strength of Snap design. Our designer to engineer ratio was prob the most skewed of any company out there at our scale, which really forced a trust level and cross app responsibility to be felt by the 10-12 of us back then

can ai fix his vocal fry yet

Don’t sleep on the cellular Ultra + @thetinyPod lite combo

This is the way

what are we even doing

While apple figures out how to make siri work for anything other than timers and reminders, what they should be doing is partnering with google to bring simulated realities to vision pro and beat meta at their own game

We veered into this issue at some point at snap where the art of alignment/approval began to outweigh the simple process of being generative/scrappy and sharing ideas early. So we shifted incentives/course corrected and one team mandate became “WE SHIP PRODUCTS NOT PRESENTATIONS”

We should just go back to calling AI machine learning tbh