Month: September 2025

  • 2007: Envisioning the iPhone, part 2

    Before there was the iPhone, there were many other cell phones. Alan had a few in those couple decades.

  • Step (further) into the Future of Art

    A week ago, along with its new iPhones, Apple released a new set of operating systems for all its devices, unifying its OS version numbers at 26. Particularly interesting to Alan and company was the “spatial scenes” capability that Apple added to visionOS 26 for the Vision Pro. The Art Authority Museum was introduced the…

  • 2007: Envisioning the iPhone, part 1

    Apple announced the new iPhone 17 line last week. The iPhone is the pinnacle of Apple’s near-half-century of evenly distributing the Future. To pretty much the entire world. There is so much to say about the iPhone that it will likely take until Apple’s half-century anniversary (April 1, 2026) to say even close to half…

  • 2001: Envisioning the iPod

    Before there was the iPhone there was the iPod. At the turn of the 21st century, portable digital music players (and in fact the whole digital music industry) were at that stage where Apple really excels: already here, but very unevenly distributed; complex and not well implemented. At that time, Apple was Apple Computer. A…