Category: Design
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World famous designer Marc Newson is joining Sir Jonathan Ive’s design team at apple according to an article in Vanity Fair. The article. While the pair have worked on some projects before, this has all the appearances of a Steve Jobs/Tim Cook style ascendency to the top design position in Apple currently held by Sir Ive. This is not the first time that Marc and Sir Ive have collaborated on projects, having worked together on the famous Apple Red project…
Not every Apple product is destined to be a run-away success. Roberto Baldwin tells of several Apple products that unfortunately, for whatever reason, didn’t have what it takes to catch on with consumers. Apple’s breakthrough products are so massive that it seems everything the company does is destined to succeed. But it doesn’t take much digging to find a trail of failures and false starts. Even in recent years, there are examples of products that seemed great but never resonated…
It’s going to take a while to get to the computer related material in this article. Please be patient. Ever since I was a little kid I’ve been curious about the world around me. I was the type of kid who wanted to see what was on the next block or figure out how dolls were made (yes I took them apart and put them back together again). The only time I got into trouble for it was when a…
Paula Routly recently interviewed early Apple Inc. employee Jerry Mancock. Jerry was Apple Computer Inc. Employee 6 or 7, depending on who you ask and he gave a very detailed overview of early life at Apple, about working on the Apple ][, Disk ][ and eventually the Macintosh, as well as working with Steve Jobs. The original creator of the Apple ][ case was originally very skeptical of Steve Jobs and asked for payment up front. He didn’t get it…
Have you ever wondered what Apple had in mind when it was designing new Apple IIgs machines back in the 1980’s? Lim Thye Chen gives us a brief glimpse into some of those designs of prototypical Apple machines with a few pictures from the original Apple Design book at: http://retromaccast.ning.com/photo/photo/listForContributor?screenName=rxq26qsiiir9 While this is not the first time we have seen such wild ideas of Apple products, it is the first time we have seen a mythical Apple IIsi or a…
