Design Thinking

A caution has emerged ahead of Apple's rumored foldable iPhone lineup: prospective buyers may want to hold off on preordering and avoid being early adopters. The advice points to the usual risks of first-generation hardware, including potential teething problems, high prices, and unproven durability in foldable designs. Consumers excited about a folding iPhone are being urged to wait for reviews and early real-world reports before committing their money.

Grand Designs presenter Kevin McCloud has sparked debate by declaring he will never buy another electric car. Readers responding to the piece say the headline overstates his argument: his objection is to buying new large EVs, which he considers environmentally wasteful, rather than electric cars altogether. The comments highlight an ongoing divide over how green the current generation of electric vehicles really is.

A new write-up argues that Anthropic's Scion project borrows heavily from Mononoke, the large-scale source control system originally developed at Meta. The author walks through design parallels between the two, prompting discussion among developers about how much of Meta's internal infrastructure thinking is finding its way into AI companies' tooling.