You can get a large audience together for a strip-tease act-that is, to watch a girl undress on the stage. Now suppose you came to a country where you could fill a theatre by simply bringing a covered plate on to the stage and then slowly lifting the cover so as to let every one see, just before the lights went out, that it contained a mutton chop or a bit of bacon, would you not think that in that country something had gone wrong with the appetite for food? And would not anyone who had grown up in a different world think there was something equally queer about the state of the sex instinct among us?
- C.S. Lewis
Apple has trained you well.
I genuinely worry (not too much - because I'm much more concerned with tending to my own garden - but enough) about such attitudes.
Jony Ive's vanity project can wipe my butt, for all I care.
Good for you man, some of us actually appreciate and are interested in industrial design though. Some of us also like high end fashion books from the likes of Taschen. You really shouldn't worry about the things other people are interested in. We're all meaningless so just enjoy the stuff you like before you die.