Apple Needs Its Own Web Rowerser

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Peple: Apple needs its own web rowser. The way that apple worked in this period, during the steep jobs era, is that he would set this vision. So at the time when i joined in, two thousand maco s ten give the new version of the destop operating system. Rits i came along with his unic space replacement. It was still part of the agreement that had been made a couple of years earlier with microsopi rvide apple with with a wend rouser. He brought office to the mack, and then i e became the default professer.

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.