The Risk Makers
Inside the tech industry’s decades-long failure to reckon with risk.
Apple
Lavish Parties, Greedy Pols, and Panic Rooms
How the “Apple of Pot” collapsed.
The Shape of Things To Come
How an industrial designer became Apple’s greatest product.
Playboy Interview: Steven Jobs
Steve Jobs, age 29.
"It’s often the same with any new, revolutionary thing. People get stuck as they get older. Our minds are sort of electrochemical computers. Your thoughts construct patterns like scaffolding in your mind. You are really etching chemical patterns. In most cases, people get stuck in those patterns, just like grooves in a record, and they never get out of them. It’s a rare person who etches grooves that are other than a specific way of looking at things, a specific way of questioning things. It’s rare that you see an artist in his 30s or 40s able to really contribute something amazing. Of course, there are some people who are innately curious, forever little kids in their awe of life, but they’re rare."
I Cut the 'Big Five' Tech Giants From My Life.
It was Hell.
Apple, Influence, and Ive
A conversation with the greatest designer of a generation.
Notes From An Emergency
A talk from the re:publica conference in Berlin:
The good part about naming a talk in 2017 ‘Notes from an Emergency’ is that there are so many directions to take it. The emergency I want to talk about is the rise of a vigorous ethnic nationalism in Europe and America. This nationalism makes skillful use of online tools, tools that we believed inherently promoted freedom, to advance an authoritarian agenda.
The Cobalt Pipeline
Tracing the path of one of the world’s most in-demand minerals from deadly mines in Congo to your phone.
Inside the Playlist Factory
The people at Apple, Spotify, and Google who decide what you listen to.
Life and Death in the App Store
Middle class apps struggle to survive.
The High-Stakes Race to Rid the World of Human Drivers
On the battle between Google, Apple, Uber, and Tesla to own the driverless car market, which could be worth more than $30 billion a year.
An iPhone Tester Caught in Apple's Supply Chain
Bibek Dhong traveled from Nepal to Malaysia to test cameras for the new iPhone 5. When production ended abruptly, he and his coworkers found themselves stranded for two months without money, food or passports.
Marty Sullivan Figured Out How The World's Biggest Companies Avoided Billions In Taxes
A profile of the policy wonk who shone the light and turned the tide on overseas tax havens.
Retail Therapy: Inside the Apple Store
Notes from an anonymous Apple Store employee.
How BlackBerry Blew It
Ego, hubris, and the failure to adapt.
How Microsoft Lost Its Mojo
The story of a lead squandered.
Change the World
The emerging political consciousness of Silicon Valley.
The iEconomy (Pt. 1-7)
The complete (to date) New York Times series on the globalization of high tech industries.
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1. How the U.S. Lost Out on iPhone Work (by Charles Duhigg & Keith Bradsher, Jan 2012)
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2. In China, Human Costs Are Built Into an iPad (by Charles Duhigg & David Barboza, Jan 2012)
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3. How Apple Sidesteps Billions in Taxes (by Charles Duhigg & David Kocienewski, Apr 2012)
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4. Apples Retail Army, Long on Loyalty but Short on Pay (by David Segal, Jun 2012)
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5. In Pursuit of Nissan, a Jobs Lesson for the Tech Industry? (by Bill Vlasic, Hiroko Tabuchi & Charles Duhigg, Aug 2012)
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6. Skilled Work, Without the Worker (by John Markoff, Aug 2012)
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7. The Patent, Used as a Sword (by Charles Duhigg & Steve Lohr, Oct 2012)
The Patent, Used as a Sword
For the first time, the giants of the tech industry are spending more on creating, buying, and fighting patents than they are on R&D.
Part of New York Times’ ongoing iEconomy series.
Winamp’s Woes: How the Greatest MP3 Player Undid Itself
The story of an opportunity missed.
Apple’s Retail Army, Long on Loyalty but Short on Pay
A look at Apple stores, where jobs are high stress, with low pay and little opportunity for advancement.
The Lost Steve Jobs Tapes
From failure to Pixar, Steve Jobs’ “wilderness years.”
Mr. Daisey and the Apple Factory
After years of avoiding the uncomfortable truths about how his gadgets are made, a Mac fanboy travels to Foxconn to see for himself.
Update 3/16/12: This American Life retracted this story today after it was revealed to have “contained significant fabrications.”
The Book of Jobs
What it means to stay true to the Steve Jobs brand.
Apple, America and a Squeezed Middle Class
How the U.S. lost out on iPhone work.
