“Apple is well known for its stylish designs. Its vice-president of industrial design, Jonathan Ive, has attained cult status for his work on the iMac and iPod, which also won him the illustrious 2002 Designer of the Year award from London’s Design Museum. The original translucent iMac broke the mould for desktop computers by using materials, shapes and colours never seen before in a market dominated by beige boxes. It took only 10 months to go from the drawing board to the showrooms. Its follow up, however, the new flat-panel iMac, took two years,” reports Simon Tsang for Icon via The Age.
“‘The easy part was knowing that we were going to use a flat-panel display,’ reflects Ive, ‘the hard part was figuring out how. When you look at the design now, it seems so simple, so obvious, but as usual the simplest, most efficient solution has been the most elusive.’ But the result has been devastatingly effective in capturing the imagination of computer users around the world,” reports Tsang.
Tsang continues, “Similarly, the iPod MP3 player, with its minimalist good looks and simple and elegant interface, centered on a large rotating dial, set the standard for all digital audio players to come. Companies are beginning to take industrial design more seriously as how a product looks and feels becomes a key competitive advantage.”
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yea
i hope their future computers look like computers from minority report
In which it copied the concept from Johnny Mnemonic without the googles. But I dont think you will have a “desktop” or “laptop” per se. I think what you will get is when you buy a house it will say something like “This house powered by Apple”. Basically there will only be a monitor/terminal at your desk to work or in each room if you choose. The entire house will be networked. That’s my theory.
WHITE NOISE: article on the cult of iPod in National Post newspaper, August 2 2003, “That new white magic.”
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