“Ultimately, we chose to keep the watch animations as close as possible to the original Schulz drawings. Charles Schulz had a very specific and rare pin nib that he used. It was a nib that you had to dip in the ink bottle each time to fill it with ink and it meant he could create a varied line from thin to thick.
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There’s more detail yet. Look closely and you’ll see the backgrounds are made up of dots – just the way it used to look in newsprint. Monday to Saturday has a half-tone dot background, but then bursts into colour for Sundays, again, just like it appeared in newspapers. This is called the Sunday Surprise.
Known as one of the few remaining “old school” engineering leaders at Apple, Srouji runs a tight ship. And his group has certainly been able to accomplish tough tasks, including building custom technologies that replaced computer processors, phone chips and wireless components from big-name suppliers.
Despite it all, though, many of the team’s goals haven’t been reached yet. That includes moving away from Qualcomm Inc.’s modem component in the iPhone, revamping Apple’s approach to displays and ushering in additional wireless chips.
I wish Apple is more ambitious with the lock screen on iPhone (and iPad). Currently, it only allows me to choose from a pre-defined set of limited lock screens. There are no APIs to allow third-party apps to show their lock screens. For example, how about a new daily photo for my lock screen provided by Unsplash? Or perhaps a news photo of the day by Reuters?
Well, maybe Apple programmers are busy these few years, sprucing not only the iPhone's lock screen, but also iPad's different lock screen, and macOS' desktop widgets.
Maybe the upcoming WWDC we will something wonderful for the lock screen again?
Or, at least, get Snoopy and Woodstock to also make a home on my iPhone?
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