Apple's Longtime Design Chief Jony Ive Leaving to Start New Design Company With Apple as a Primary Client

[toke lahti]

N64 before imac:

N64 after iMac:

I like this better, orange reminds me of... er, I really don't know...

So the curved shape didn't come from imac...

Back then, back here, at the far end of civ, there wasn't so much IT items or anything else (like grills) mimicking imac.
Today it would be different since we buy same products globally...

 

[Zdigital2015]

You wanna prove that mate?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_64#Release

"To boost sales during the slow post-Christmas season, Nintendo and General Mills worked together on a promotional campaign that appeared in early 1999. The advertisement by Saatchi and Saatchi, New York began on January 25 and encouraged children to buy Fruit by the Foot snacks for tips to help them with their Nintendo 64 games. Ninety different tips were available, with three variations of thirty tips each.[65]

Nintendo advertised its Funtastic Series of peripherals with a $10 million print and television campaign from February 28 to April 30, 2000. Leo Burnett Worldwide was in charge again.[66]"

https://www.ign.com/articles/2000/03/07/funtastic-n64-consoles - First posted March 6, 2000

After the iMac was released in 1998 and became a hit, the transparent plastic craze started. There are entire lines of products that relied on the color palette that Apple used in the next iterations of the iMac. The patterns (Blue Dalmatian and Flower Power) did not see the same wholesale copying, but the solid colors (Blueberry, Strawberry, Lime, Tangerine, Grape, Graphite, Indigo, Ruby, Sage and Snow) did without exception. Certain color were more popular with manufacturers, but you could hardly turn anywhere without seeing translucent plastic products. Apple took the risk and expense of creating those manufacturing techniques and others decided it was worth the risk to do and advanced well beyond the standard drab beige, silver, grey and black that many products used during that time period.

 

[ErikGrim]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_64#Release

"To boost sales during the slow post-Christmas season, Nintendo and General Mills worked together on a promotional campaign that appeared in early 1999. The advertisement by Saatchi and Saatchi, New York began on January 25 and encouraged children to buy Fruit by the Foot snacks for tips to help them with their Nintendo 64 games. Ninety different tips were available, with three variations of thirty tips each.[65]

Nintendo advertised its Funtastic Series of peripherals with a $10 million print and television campaign from February 28 to April 30, 2000. Leo Burnett Worldwide was in charge again.[66]"

https://www.ign.com/articles/2000/03/07/funtastic-n64-consoles - First posted March 6, 2000

After the iMac was released in 1998 and became a hit, the transparent plastic craze started. There are entire lines of products that relied on the color palette that Apple used in the next iterations of the iMac. The patterns (Blue Dalmatian and Flower Power) did not see the same wholesale copying, but the solid colors (Blueberry, Strawberry, Lime, Tangerine, Grape, Graphite, Indigo, Ruby, Sage and Snow) did without exception. Certain color were more popular with manufacturers, but you could hardly turn anywhere without seeing translucent plastic products. Apple took the risk and expense of creating those manufacturing techniques and others decided it was worth the risk to do and advanced well beyond the standard drab beige, silver, grey and black that many products used during that time period.

Beat me to it. Haha.

 

[Tozovac]

1990s: Besides being something new and different and shiny to dangle in front of consumers (and give Apple marketing something new to have fun with), did translucent hardware design offer any concrete improvement in function or utility to the consumer? Did it stick around and stand the test of time?

2013-2019: Besides being something new and different and shiny to dangle in front of consumers (and give Apple marketing something new to have fun with), did translucent aspects of OSX/iOS design offer any concrete improvement in function or utility to the consumer? Will it stick around and stand the test of time?

 

[plexdk]

Historic time for Apple. The last wind has passed. Jobs.. Forstall.. Ive.

If Jony has been checked-out for the past few years, then I'm afraid he is not the instigator of the poor design choices as of late. In which case, those responsible have only greater leverage. The "Apple spirit" will only continue to perish without new vision.

I agree.. Maybe what we have now, is the result of a stalling design team, without their leader. :/