“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.]