Jony Ive was recently promoted and put in charge of all Human Interface teams at Apple, in addition to his existing role as head of Industrial Design.
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Jony Ive's Design Video for the Twentieth Anniversary Mac
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Article Link: Jony Ive's Design Video for the Twentieth Anniversary Mac
The TAM was one cool computer. I had bought one from eBay, but eventually got rid of it because the CD drive didn't work.
Wait
Did I see a BOSE logo on that subwoofer????
I'd like for Apple and BOSE to work together again and make some incredible laptop and desktop speakers. And I know they won't be the first (look to HP and Beats, but really, they are Beats, c'mon), but they will be one of the best.
I'd like for Apple and BOSE to work together again and make some incredible laptop and desktop speakers. And I know they won't be the first (look to HP and Beats, but really, they are Beats, c'mon), but they will be one of the best.
Friend still has his 20th Anniversary. $10,000 and a guy in a tux delivered it in a limo and set it up for you. Pretty crazy.
BOSE is all name.... their products are so-so.
There is a reason why they never publish their specs on their speakers... because they aren't that great.
I've got a small Bose system on my computer desk, and it sounds incredible.
What amazes me most is how little has changed about Ive and his design philosophy. Almost everything he said in that video could apply to his approach to the new iMac or iPhone as well. The man is certainly consistent.
Although Bose makes decent speakers once in awhile, they are perhaps the most overrated consumer electronics company in the world. You can get much better speakers for less money. There's this running joke that audiophiles use to describe Bose: "No Highs? No Lows? Must be Bose!"
That cost more than ALL of my cars (Austin Mini, MG Midget, MGB, Renault 5 GT Turbo, Peugeot 405, Peugeot 406 and another 406).
Oh, except for the Caterham 7 SV Roadsport 150
It reminds me of those thin vertical CD players that some people hung on their bathroom shower heads a long time ago. I wonder if that was his inspiration.
Price is relative to the time. One of the first computers I got to work on cost literally $12 million dollars. No kidding.
I spent many nights for hours in front of that double tube console. It still has features not present in small PC's and Macs
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CDC_6600
You can see the console with some of the CPU in the background, disks and tape units and printers would be to the operator's back.
At the time $10K was a lot for a personal desktop machine but "cheap" for a "real computer".