“When people in the technology industry speak of Steven P. Jobs’s knack for design, they often have Apple’s iconic products in mind: the early all-in-one Macintosh computers, the first iMacs with their brightly colored and translucent cases, and more recently, the various iPods, iPhones and iPads,” Miguel Helft And Shan Carter report for The New York Times.
“But what about the striking glass staircases in many of Apple’s stores? Mr. Jobs led their design — and has his name on two patents Apple received for that design,” Helft and Carter report. “The white plastic power adapters in newer-model Macintosh computers? Mr. Jobs helped to design them too, according to patent filings.”
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Helft and Carter report, “And he also had a hand in the final look of a startling number of products, including the seemingly insignificant and those that have proved central to Apple’s success: the lanyard for some iPod headsets, the plastic clasps that hold cords in place, the cardboard packaging for scores of iPods, and model after model of desktop and laptop computers, monitors, mice, keyboards, mobile devices and media players.”
Read more in the full article here.
Also check out the interactive feature detailing Jobs’ patents here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Edward Weber” for the heads up.]
Pure and not so simple Genius.
He deserves far more credit and respect than those two or three yoyos at MS.
The guy forgot to list second iMac generation (including mechanics that makes the screen movable), and original MacBook Pro design (Titanium), where Jobs also listed as primary inventor.
He, of course, is also co-inventor of all of Apple’s product designs, as well as many software and UI principles.
More interesting than a staircase, is design of a step (staircase member). Obviously, this and some other patents by Jobs have nothing to do with “interior design”, it is pure engineering.
Not surprising at all. The numbskulls who think Steve is just a glorified salesman have absolutely no idea what they’re talking about.
This is the first truly interesting and informative Steve Jobs article I’ve read since he resigned. The rest have been mindless crap.
Id take someone’s name being on a patent with a grain of salt when using it as metric for determining if someone is an “inventor”.
I worked for a place that had one of our accountants listed as an “inventor” on every patent they had. The guy simply said “yeah that looks cool” when shown product ideas and that was the extent of his contributions. He was good friends with the owner.
With that being said Steve Jobs is def a creator and inventor on some level. A glorified salesman could not do what he has accomplished.
Im not sure i could label him an “inventor”, an “engineer” or a “salesman”. The guy is more like an enigma and encompasses bits and pieces of many different roles. Surely a genius at what he does there is no doubt.
Steve Jobs is Apple. Could you imagine Bill Gates coming up with anything nearly as visionary?….