Apple already confirmed that it’ll have more advanced parental controls built into the iPhone this year, in response to a letter demanding such features from the iPhone maker. But Apple never revealed what these features might be. Tony Fadell, the former Apple employee who worked on the iPod and iPhone before creating Nest, has some …
Since spearheading the development of the iPod at Apple more than 15 years ago, Tony Fadell’s career trajectory has been interesting to say the least. After leaving Apple in 2008, Fadell took some time off and slipped into tech obscurity, only to emerge a few years later with a new venture called Nest Labs. Famously, Nest’s …
With the 10th anniversary of the iPhone’s release this week, a number of Apple engineers who played an instrumental role in the iPhone’s creation have been conducting interviews and shedding new light on how Apple managed to create such a revolutionary product in just about two years. Just last week, former Apple executive Scott Forstall …
Pundits keep asking themselves what Steve Jobs would do every time Apple makes a questionable move. But not everything Apple’s visionary leader imagined about the iPhone actually made it into the final product — and that’s really a very good thing, because the iPhone that we know and love may have had an entirely different look and software …
The most prominent iPhone prototype that Apple ever lost was the iPhone 4 that was forgotten in a bar by an Apple engineer months before its actual launch. But things could have been a lot different if a stranger had found a lost original iPhone prototype that was left in an airplane by Tony Fadell, …
In a blog post late today, Nest co-founder and CEO Tony Fadell has announced that he’s leaving the company. His departure from the Google-owned company doesn’t mean he’s leaving the family, however — he’s moving on to an advisory role with Google’s parent company, Alphabet. Marwan Fawaz is stepping into Fadell’s role as the CEO …
Over the last decade, no tech product has had more of an impact on the way we lead our lives than the iPhone. Without question, the iPhone ushered in the modern-day smartphone era and forever changed the way we entertain ourselves, access information, travel, and communicate with the world. It’s reasonable to categorize the iPhone as a …
On the season premiere of Bloomberg’s ‘Studio 1.0’ this week, Emily Chang had a chance to sit down with current Nest CEO and former Apple executive Tony Fadell to discuss a wide range of topics, from his relationship with Steve Jobs to the influence that Apple had on the way he runs his business today. It’s …
Though Google Glass debuted with a tremendous amount of hype, the futuristic wearable quickly became the butt of a long-running joke about tech products that no one really wants or needs. Having used Google Glass myself a few times, I can personally attest that the device, while housing incredibly advanced technology, seemed fundamentally pointless.
Tony Fadell is a name that shouldn’t need any introduction, considering many tech enthusiasts are using various gadgets he worked on along the years. The former Apple executive who was in charge of the iPod for many years and who had a hand in making the first iPhone models, is currently working at Google after having …
