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Philippe Starck: Oui, that ‘revolutionary Apple product’ is actually Steve Jobs’ family’s yacht

Tuesday, April 17, 2012 · 12:11 am · 24 Comments

“France’s most famous designer Philippe Starck created a huge internet buzz among Apple fan boys over the weekend when he announced that he’s working on a ‘revolutionary’ project with the Palo Alto-based consumer electronics giant,” David Pearson reports for The Wall Street Journal.

“Unfortunately for them, the project has nothing to do with a new iPhone or the much-rumored Apple TV,” Pearson reports. “A spokeswoman for Starck confirmed that the project involves a yacht that’s being designed for Steve Jobs’ family.”

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Categories: News

Tags: design, designers, Jonathan Ive, Jony Ive, Laurene Powell Jobs, Philippe Starck, steve jobs, yacht

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24 Comments

Figurative

Tuesday, April 17, 2012 - 12:23 am · Reply

So he was lying. It’s not an Apple product and he’s not working with Apple.
Cold

Tuesday, April 17, 2012 - 1:30 am · Reply

Best quote on this is from John Molt’z Very Nice Website at verynicewebsite.net:

“It’s cool and all but I hear Google’s coming out with a yacht in six months that’s an inch longer, runs Flash and is more open.”
- AlanAudio
  
  Tuesday, April 17, 2012 - 2:22 am · Reply
  
  …. and Microsoft are already working on making the video of their Zune Yacht 8 concept.
  
  Unlike previous Microsoft projects that wouldn’t sync properly, this one will, but the spelling is ‘sink’.
  - HTML5 Gordon
    
    Tuesday, April 17, 2012 - 7:28 am · Reply
    
    LOL! Thanks.
- TheMacAdvocate
  
  Tuesday, April 17, 2012 - 9:20 am · Reply
  
  Little do buyers know that the wood is infested with termites.
spyintheskyuk

Tuesday, April 17, 2012 - 3:51 am · Reply

As I said bad translation mixed with self promoting media whore is not a good combination..
spyintheskyuk

Tuesday, April 17, 2012 - 3:54 am · Reply

Microsoft’s yacht after advice from its publicity department and to exploit the publicity to be named Titanic.
zaggo

Tuesday, April 17, 2012 - 8:36 am · Reply

Arrogant quote from another irrelevant french.
silverhawk1

Tuesday, April 17, 2012 - 9:01 am · Reply

Remember the photos of Paul Allen’s yacht? The one with the submarine onboard?
Anaknipedro

Tuesday, April 17, 2012 - 9:20 am · Reply

Ballmer says laughing, “twenty million dollars, for a yacht, fully subsidized? …look, it may do very well but I like our strategy, I like it a lot.”
TheMacAdvocate

Tuesday, April 17, 2012 - 9:33 am · Reply

So another person figured out that they could affect brand re-invention through open-ended speculation about their involvement with an Apple product.

Next.
DRMSSDB

Tuesday, April 17, 2012 - 9:55 am · Reply

“France’s most famous designer Philippe Starck created a huge internet buzz among Apple fan boys over the weekend when he announced that he’s working on a ‘revolutionary’ project with the Palo Alto-based consumer electronics giant,” David Pearson reports for The Wall Street Journal.”

Maybe he should have written “reactionary tech-press jackwagons” instead of “Apple fan boys”, the latter of which understood that this was a red herring. The former? Now trying to eschew responsibility by using a term like “Apple fan boys”.
- Krioni
  
  Tuesday, April 17, 2012 - 11:57 am · Reply
  
  +π
alanaudio

Tuesday, April 17, 2012 - 10:36 am · Reply

France’s most famous designer Philippe Starck created a huge internet buzz among Apple fan boys over the weekend when he announced that he’s working on a ‘revolutionary’ project with the Palo Alto-based consumer electronics giant”

The buzz he hard was a raspberry being blown by those of us who were smart enough to realise that the story was rubbish. Apple would not need his input as it already employs the world-leading designer Jony Ive.
- W.T.Effyall
  
  Tuesday, April 17, 2012 - 10:59 am · Reply
  
  Starck’s designs are redolent with the stench of his ego. We look at these overwrought objects and hear Starck declaring “I am a genius!”
  
  Jony Ive’s designs are quite the opposite. It is we who use these objects who declare his genius.
  - qka
    
    Tuesday, April 17, 2012 - 12:40 pm · Reply
    
    I believe Apple used Starck chairs in one of the “Hello, I’m a Mac” ads. The one where mac & PC are seeing a counselor.
    
    I can’t believe I know that. Now I need counseling.
  - Rulfer
    
    Tuesday, April 17, 2012 - 5:49 pm · Reply
    
    Philippe Starck has “designed” about 100 different chairs with a single common feature: You can’t sit on them comfortably for more than 2 minutes. That this publicity-crazy windbag associates himself with Apple doesn’t surprise me at all. But I never understood why Steve Jobs would ever let someone like Starck come near to him… There is a Grand Canyon between the design philosophies of Jonathan Ive and Philippe Starck. Perhaps the sad truth is that Steve Jobs actually did not have such a good idea on design as we all thought???
    - W.T.Effyall
      
      Tuesday, April 17, 2012 - 9:14 pm · Reply
      
      Maybe Starck is lying about the yacht as well.
      
      And maybe also about what good buddies he and Steve were.
tbone

Tuesday, April 17, 2012 - 10:50 am · Reply

does this mean we can wait in line or an iYacht?
- qka
  
  Tuesday, April 17, 2012 - 12:38 pm · Reply
  
  You can wait in line to man oar on iYacht.
- Raymond in DC
  
  Tuesday, April 17, 2012 - 12:54 pm · Reply
  
  Forget the iYacht. I’m waiting for Apple’s iSail. Smooth lines courtesy of Johnny Ive. iPad handles navigation (there’s gotta’ be an app for that!) and communication. The auxiliary motor? Powered by fuel cells, of course. Something in the 25-27′ length for me, please.
Ronald Begg

Tuesday, April 17, 2012 - 11:43 am · Reply

Well, another surprise! Any more in the wings?
It wouldn’t be Apple if there were none!!
jim

Tuesday, April 17, 2012 - 12:42 pm · Reply

Somebody at the WSJ had planned to sell AAPL high the other day, I think. First the “Lost the shine” and now this: “Unfortunately for [Apple fan boys]…”
Derek Currie

Tuesday, April 17, 2012 - 10:43 pm · Reply

This gets my nomination for THE MOST VACUOUS RUMOR OF THE YEAR.