The Blackberry - The Best Phone Ever?

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The most popular phone at the time was the crackberry, rim blackberry and physical keyboard. This was in the fall of two thousand five. Steve Jobs announced the iphone in january of two thousand seven. So were were just a little bit more than n less than a year and a half out from from the day wherewere we were trying to hit 18 mints noloto.

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.