[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I always kind of thought that the current design schemes at Apple should be
> credited more towards Jonathan Ives than Steve Jobs. Jonathan Ives was one of
> the major forces behind the eMate design.
O.K., but Jobs is an incredible ego maniac. Jonathan Ives may have designed it, but
Steve Jobs said: "I don't hate this, let's produce it". Nothing gets the green
light at Apple unless Jobs puts his stamp of approval on it. He could have just as
easily said to Ives: "no, I don't like these curves, why do I even try with you
obviously incompetent morons, must I do everything, make it more like a stealth
bomber".
>
>
> ....and I also think
> a lot of them got how cool it would be to use some non-standard materials
> (leather, metal, wood, etc.) as accents....hopefully some of these things
> will eventually come out.
Is there actually wood somewhere on a TAM? Where?
>
>
> The current Apple design language is this translucent, very curvy look. So
> far, the only product that doesn't completely fit in is the PowerBooks,
> and even they share similar curves and the translucent keyboard and trackpad.
>
Exactly (I assume you are excluding the iBook)! Something has got to be changing on
the G3s in the near future. I am anticipating for one that the IRDA port will
disappear on forthcoming Revs, possibly to be replaced with Firewire. Given the
translucent Bronze keyboard addition, I also expect to see more "sophisticated"
translucent aspects to the outer case as well: something like O'Grady's speculation
about the professional iBook which would come in Mocha or Cranberry. I would have a
mocha iBook.
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