Justin Bieber Is Actually Mad About This Annoying iPhone Design Characteristic

Justin Bieber has a design observe for Apple.

Bieber vented his frustrations in regards to the dictation button accessible on Apple iPhones in social media posts on X and Instagram on Friday. The dictation button is a text-to-speech characteristic that customers typically unintentionally hit.

“If I hit this dictation button after sending a textual content and it beeps and stops my music yet another time, I am gonna discover everybody at apple and put them in a rear bare choke maintain,” Bieber wrote. “Even when I flip off dictation I by some means hit the voice observe factor The ship button mustn’t have a number of capabilities in the identical spot.”

Bieber shared a screenshot of his iMessage display, highlighting the dictation characteristic, alongside his remarks. His posts garnered 1000’s of optimistic responses, together with one from the top of product design at OpenAI.

“you are formally invited to our weekly design crits,” Ian Silber wrote on Friday.

Bieber’s critique comes on the finish of a tough week for Apple, which is navigating some main departures amongst its management.

Apple introduced on Monday that John Giannandrea, senior vp for machine studying and AI technique, is stepping down from his place. He’ll function an advisor till his retirement in 2026.

On Wednesday, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg introduced that Alan Dye will run the corporate’s new artistic studio in Actuality Labs. Dye, who serves because the vp of human interface design at Apple, has labored on the firm for almost 20 years.

Then, Apple introduced on Thursday that Lisa Jackson, its vp for setting, coverage, and social initiatives, will retire in late January. Kate Adams, the corporate’s basic counsel since 2017, will even retire subsequent yr.

Lengthy a Large Tech stalwart and constant innovator, Apple has been sluggish to pivot and compete with corporations like OpenAI, Meta, and Google within the red-hot AI market.

In October, OpenAI launched its personal model of an app retailer, making a serious transfer towards Apple (and Google). That very same month, former Apple CEO John Sculley stated OpenAI is Apple’s “first actual competitor” in many years.

5 months earlier, OpenAI introduced a partnership with Jony Ive, who spent three many years as Apple’s chief design officer. He oversaw the design of the iPhone and different merchandise earlier than he left in 2019.

OpenAI labored with Ive’s design agency, LoveFrom, earlier than buying his AI {hardware} startup, IO, in Might. Ive and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman at the moment are rumored to be engaged on a tool that would compete with Apple’s iPhone, although precisely what kind it can take has been saved tightly below wraps.