iReporter: copying paste didn't appear in i o s until several releases later, and that's a feature we all take for granted now. Did you guys make an explicit decision, sort of like, y let's ship without copying paste? And was that contentious? Cause oe sene like that's on, yes, yes, it was. I got used to being in the team meetings where henriw team engineering meetings, again, everybody's in the room. We got 20 people in room, and henri is up at the, you know, up at the front of the room,. The one thing that i did a aa implement for the first iphone
In this wide-ranging conversation from April 2019, a16z’s Frank Chen sits down with Ken Kocienda, a longtime software engineer and designer at Apple from 2001 to 2017, who wrote a book about his career there, called Creative Selection.
They discuss Ken’s unconventional path from freelance photographer to software engineer at Apple, his work on many core products from Safari web browser to iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch and features like Autocorrect, what it was like to demo new products for Steve Jobs, and more.