Ken Kocienda is the inventor of the iPhone autocorrect system which, as we all know, can be very ducking annoying. The Wall Street Journal's Joanna Stern interviewed Kocienda from… a duck farm.
Meet the person responsible for the iPhone's ducking annoying autocorrect system
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