Sakura (repost)
Sakura They met without cameras. Evan Altman didn’t like ceremonial meetings, and neither did Jonah Ives. One led the world’s most influential artificial intelligence lab; the other had quietly stepped away from a lifetime of designing objects people didn’t realize they loved until they couldn’t live without them. The room was plain—white walls, natural light, a single wooden table. No screens. Jonah placed a small object on the table. Pink. Warm. Its surface caught the light softly, like silk rather than glass. Evan didn’t ask what it did. Instead, he asked, “Why does it feel… calm?” Jonah smiled. “Because it doesn’t want your attention. It wants your trust.” That was the moment Sakura began—not as a product, but as a question: What if AI didn’t live in a rectangle? They called the development team Studio Bloom, half as a joke. They were young—engineers, material scientists, sound designers, and one anthropologist who had never shipped hardware before and insisted that wa...