“Acclaimed French designer Phillippe Starck revealed in a recent interview that he has been working with Apple on a “revolutionary” new product that will be revealed within the next 8 months,” Neil Hughes reports for AppleInsider.
“Starck revealed the information in a radio interview with France Info, as discovered by HardMac,” Hughes reports. “‘Indeed, there is a big project together which will be out in eight months,’ Starck said, according to a translation. He cited Apple’s ‘religious cult of secrecy’ for declining to divulge any further information, though he did say the new project is ‘quite revolutionary.'”
“Starck also revealed that he met regularly with Apple co-founder Steve Jobs before he passed away last October,” Hughes reports. “The designer said he would see Jobs around once a month in his Palo Alto home for seven years, and he now meets with Jobs’s widow, Laurene Powell, when he is in California.”
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That’s like announcing “RIM’s next product to be released will look like its predecessors and be equally crap as said predecessors”
We all know it’s going to happen, we know its inevitable. Just tell us WHAT it is. ^.^
In other news, the world is expecting the sun to rise tomorrow even though there are signs that it will set tonight.
I will go out on a limb and predict Apple will release 2 revolutionary with the next 16 months.
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Oh, Boy — here we go! Let the rumor mill begin!
It’s going to be another new mouse!
http://www.gizmag.com/go/3137/
I think Stark was referring to a new Apple Branded Iron man suit.
iCar?
iPlane?
Just how big??
iPlanet? / iLifeStar (Apple’s server farm in space)
iYacht
Bluetooth lemon squeezer.
Got one already.
A time machine (not the automated backup software). Unfortunately it won’t be ready for prime time until mid 2013. But future Tim will be on stage with present Tim at this years WWDC to announce it. Oh, and it will be compatible with all or your current iOS products. But in true Apple fashion future Tim will remain mum on all future products and their amazing success…which he has seen first hand thanks to his iTime.
It’s the iPatent. Once Apple owns that, no one else can patent anything.
Meanwhile… deep inside a Samsung R&D lab somewhere… a ‘designer’ starts drawing circles on a piece of paper… ‘revolutionary, they say. Hmmmm…’
That’s good, really good, Mr. Davies! I nominate it for “comment of the day.”
Nestor 5 robot.
Isn’t it reasonable to assume that if he had an NDA with Apple that does not allow him to ‘divulge any further information,’ that it would also not allow him to divulge that he has been working with Apple in the first place?
Yep…. now people will know where to look for information…. where to look is almost as important as what to look for.
Next iPhone with a revolutionary camera.
Apple will (or should) buy up a major carrier, throw a few billion at it to build out 99.99% LTE (the real LTE) coverage across the US within a year. The real surprise is that it will be very very low cost to us folks who have been continuously ra_ed by the existing carriers for years. That should sell a few iPhones.
I like Starck’s work. It’s a good fit with Apple’s general style.
Agree; Jobs was fan of France and of anything stylish overall.
This is news finally might be considered as something important and as real confirmation.
If you do a little analysis you might reasonably predict where they are going. That they will do a new iPhone…a given, a new iPad (smaller form factor) a given…the Apple TV w Display…a given…what’s left? Two things…
An audio TOOL…something that works as an interface between live performance and recording (they’ve even hinted at this previously)…
A CAMERA (which is more likely given their previous camera entries)…which would shoot in several modes including stills, movies, shifting focus mode, possibly even a 3-D mode all at 15 megapixel or 1080p for video for under $249. I’d buy it.
PowerBook G5?
iPad with a Twiggy drive?
Same search as Google and offer advertisement for FREE!
Cough €^%# Android bitch!
Car audio for sure. Airplay to the touch screen from your iDevice in pocket. Debuts with new traffic feature, maps and Siri.
How does it get installed and integrated into the existing car audio system? Not sure. No idea. But this area sucks big time in current configurations and is ripe for being taken over by someone with a clue.
Dick Tracy’s facetiming iwatch!
Finally, a hovercraft and teleportation device.
Well, if it’s a typical product of a French designer it will be beautiful, non functional and at least 4 times the original contract price.
In all fairness Phillipe Starck is one fabulous architect and on a tip from a yacht broker friend in Monaco he had been working on the interior design for SJ’s Lurssen yacht..
If Starck is still meeting with Laurene, there is a good chance this is true – it doesn’t sound like an “Apple” project, so much as an SJ project.
Yacht is 250′ and nearly completed. It’s quite probable that he had some influence with the superstructure (windows) and porthole design and of course the interior. I would imagine it would be a lot of glass, white and magnificent. My husband who is a yacht captain would frequently see the entire family thought the French and Italian Riviera. Very unassuming.
Interesting and very cool, I hope the family can enjoy the tranquil waters and reflect on happy memories of Steve.
Sorry I meant Feadship. Got carried away my husband drives a Lurssen.
It’s called “iVote”
Use it!
Since it’s designed in France, it’ll be the white flag of surrender.
No it won’t it would most likely be Marshall Islands. The French don’t have a flag of convenience. The British Nobilty have a white flag from the Royal Yacht Squadron. Maybe Jony Ive will buy it and charter it out to the family.😉
Lynn, I think you’ve rather misunderstood BLN’s reference; he’s referring to France’s tendency to capitulate, or surrender, when faced with overwhelming odds, ‘cheese eating surrender monkeys’, as someone once famously described them. Please, do keep up at the back there. ヅ
Rorschach thank you but no I completely understood BLN’s comment. I simply responded in kind because I didn’t think it was too nice slamming the French. BTW, I am not French but have lived there on and off for many years. The French happen to be their own toughest critics.
You tit BLN. France has won more wars and controlled more external territory than America could ever hope.
Heard this kind of thing before:
The ”core technology and its implementations” will, ”have a big, broad impact not only on social institutions but some billion-dollar old-line companies.” IT will ”profoundly affect our environment and the way people live worldwide. It will be an alternative to products that are dirty, expensive, sometimes dangerous and often frustrating, especially for people in the cities.”
In referring to the then TOP SECRET
Segway
NOT SO MUCH
Segway never achieved its potential because Kamen was used to selling medical equipment that could have any price he asked. $5000 was just too expensive. He needed to turn over the design rights to Apple and let Jony Ive and Tim Cook work their magic.
It’s unfortunate, because Dean Kamen is a conceptual genius. But a product that nobody can afford or that can’t be built in quantities to meet demand is just a curiosity, not a world changer.
I think another problem was that some municipalities did not allow Segways on sidewalks and certain pedestrian thoroughfares over safety concerns for pedestrians and perhaps motorists.
Yes, but that was an obstacle that could have been overcome IMHO. It never got fought, because most people never saw actual Segways, much less used them. I’ve never ridden one myself, but my personal acquaintances that have love them. Had they been available to more people, there’d have been wider acceptance.
Tim Cook himself said there was something new coming up soon, at the last special event for iPad, if I recall correctly. I reckon that rumour might be correct. There is usually something new announced at every Apple Developers Conference around mid-year.
I’m not at all sure about this one.
Starck is a pretty amazing designer, but so is Sir Jony. It’s not as if Jony hasn’t made quite a name for himself and he does have incredibly specialised, maybe even unique experience in designing everything to do with consumer electronics.
What can Phillippe bring to Apple that Jony isn’t already able to provide ?
I agree, Stark has done some overdesigned overpriced things like an Aprilia motorcycle or coffee maker. No functional improvements whatsoever. Not that impressed with him as an product designer as I am with Jonathan Ive.