Until July 2026, Tang Tan was the most important person at Apple most people had never heard of.For close to 24 years he engineered the parts of the iPhone, Apple Watch and AirPods that buyers never notice and never forget: the way the glass meets the metal without a lip, the seam so tight a thumbnail cannot catch it, the dense cold weight of a frame machined to survive a million drops and still feel like jewellery. He rose to Vice President of Product Design, owning the physical design of three of Apple's biggest products, and he answered to John Ternus, the man who is now set to become Apple's next chief executive in September.About The AuthorAt heart, I am a storyteller drawn to the watershed moments that bend the technology landscape. I braid narrative with data, humanise statistics, and trace the arc from first spark to world-changing impact. My reportage, features and reviews are witty, sardonic, visual and vivid, using anecdote to illuminate rather than eviscerate.
As a technology journalist with over sixteen years of experience, I have travelled the world and the seven seas, covered every major tech conference worth its lanyard, chronicled the defining breakthroughs of the last decade and a half, and played a pivotal role in launching some of India’s most important technology publishing platforms across web, print and TV.
