“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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MacDailyNews Take: Apple television? Next-gen iPhone? Something else?
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yawn… call me when his brother Tony designs something for Apple… iJericho… woo!
Doubtful. If anything he would have to report to Sir Ive. He would also be directing design and final say. Not Starck.
Hey, I still have my revolutionary Apple HiFi boom box!
(It’s actually pretty good.)
I am predicting Starck helped Apple design the new Apple TV unit that is coming.
If he is an architect and not “only” a designer and keeps meeting Laurene, maybe it was (is) Steve’s new house?
Wether Apple introduce a TV or a kind of digital camera/camcorder
Apple is a Castrated RAM? haha….
If someone says they’re collaborating with Apple on a “big project…which will be out in eight months”, they wouldn’t be talking about it. If they did, they’d be “out in 8 minutes”…
A major Apple product release in mid-December (8 months from now)? I think not. If the product isn’t ready in time for the Christmas season, then it won’t be released until February to maximize consumer and media attention and excitement.
this is somehow important information? you guys are really dropping the bar..