I'm Not Shipping a Physical Keyboard

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The idea that all a sort of soft ware base keyboard was one of the design things that came from steve early yesa. And so the idea of the keyboard being in softwor is that it could get out of the way, and which would then make the rest of that screen real estate available for a custom ised use your inner face. That was optimized for either the phone ap or if it's the calendar, you can see more of your appointments, or see more of a month view for the o i.

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.