Inside Apple Software Design

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🗓️ 28 April 2022

⏱️ 97 minutes

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Summary

What was it like to build and demo new things for Steve Jobs? How did Apple develop the software components of iconic hardware products iPhone, iPad, and more? Longtime Apple software engineer and designer Ken Kocienda shares stories and lessons from his career at Apple with a16z's Frank Chen.

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0:00.0	What was it like to build and demo new things for Steve Jobs?
0:03.0	How did Apple develop the software components of iconic hardware products like
0:08.0	iPhone, iPad, and more?
0:10.0	And what can we learn from these stories?
0:12.0	In this wide-ranging conversation from April 20, And what can we learn from these stories?
0:12.6	In this wide-ranging conversation from April 2019,
0:16.2	A16Z's Frank Chen sits down with Ken Kossienda,
0:20.0	a longtime software engineer and designer at Apple,
0:22.5	who was there from 2001 to 2017,
0:25.2	who also wrote a book about his career
0:27.0	called Creative Selection.
0:28.8	They discuss Ken's unconventional path
0:30.7	from freelance photographer to software engineer at Apple, his work on many
0:34.8	core products from Safari web browser to iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and features like
0:40.0	AutoCorrect, and what it was like to demo new products for Steve Jobs and more.
0:44.8	Hi, welcome to the A16Z podcast, this is Frank Chen. This episode, which is
0:51.0	called Inside the Apple Software Factory, originally aired as a
0:55.2	YouTube video. You can watch all of our YouTube videos at YouTube.
0:59.2	Come slash A16Z videos. Hope you enjoy. Well, welcome to the A16Z videos. Hope you enjoy.
1:03.7	Well, welcome to the A16Z YouTube channel.
1:06.1	I'm Frank Chen, and today I am so excited.
1:09.4	I feel like I have won the golden ticket
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