{"id":164478,"date":"2023-05-24T11:26:55","date_gmt":"2023-05-24T16:26:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/is-this-secretive-device-the-iphone-killer"},"modified":"2023-05-29T00:16:35","modified_gmt":"2023-05-29T05:16:35","slug":"is-this-secretive-device-the-iphone-killer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/is-this-secretive-device-the-iphone-killer","title":{"rendered":"Is this secretive device the \u201ciPhone killer\u201d?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/is-this-secretive-device-the-iphone-killer3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An ex-Apple exec who helped invent the iPhone is now trying to invent an \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/bgr.com\/tech\/former-apple-execs-mysterious-project-might-be-an-iphone-killer-worth-230m\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">iPhone killer<\/a>,\u201d and thanks to a leaked video from a TED presentation, we now have our first glimpse at his secretive startup\u2019s creation \u2014 but the available video only leads to more questions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The startup:<\/strong> In 2016, Imran Chaudhri (then-director of design for Apple\u2019s human interface team) and his wife Bethany Bongiorno (then-director for Apple\u2019s operating systems team) quit the company to found their own startup: Humane.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, the company has kept details of what it\u2019s been working on close to its chest, but thanks to job openings posted on Humane\u2019s website and some uncovered patent applications, by 2021, it seemed likely that the startup was developing some sort of <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2021\/09\/01\/humane-a-stealthy-hardware-and-software-startup-co-founded-by-an-ex-apple-designer-and-engineer-raises-100m\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">personal tech device<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An ex-Apple exec who helped invent the iPhone is now trying to invent an \u201ciPhone killer,\u201d and thanks to a leaked video from a TED presentation, we now have our first glimpse at his secretive startup\u2019s creation \u2014 but the available video only leads to more questions. The startup: In 2016, Imran Chaudhri (then-director of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1512],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-mobile-phones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164478"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":164732,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164478\/revisions\/164732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}