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Jony Ive Designs One-of-a-Kind Red Mac Pro for Product (RED) Charity Auction
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lack of imagination, no critical thinking skills
It's really quite funny reading these forums.
This sort of auction has no real connection to every day to day practicality or "function" as it were.
It's strictly a charity auction. The proceeds go to help a charity.
This isn't "apple" doing something - this is someone who happens to work for Apple doing something.
Red, black, green, white - doesn't really matter. It's a special computer color. Doesn't have to be practical, doesn't have to mean a thing. It's Ive's name which is important...if the machine is used or not - doesn't matter. It's all an excuse to spend the money so some rich person can brag for 30 seconds about their "important" purchase and subsequent tax write-off.
Hypocrisy or not, Apple is not (by law or even any contemporary sense of ethics) obliged to contribute to charity. Sir Ive has even less obligation than the corporation known as Apple (by a certain point of view).
Get a grip. Who cares. It's red, shiny, and some rich person will buy it and some charity will get some money they didn't have before.
What have any of you done for charity, lately?
yep - that's what I thought.
If one were to perform some basic research, one could find plenty of very, very wealthy people who contribute even less of their time and wealth to charity. Not defending anyone - just rather amused/annoyed at the, uh, uninformed reactionary responses itt.
It's really quite funny reading these forums.
This sort of auction has no real connection to every day to day practicality or "function" as it were.
It's strictly a charity auction. The proceeds go to help a charity.
This isn't "apple" doing something - this is someone who happens to work for Apple doing something.
Red, black, green, white - doesn't really matter. It's a special computer color. Doesn't have to be practical, doesn't have to mean a thing. It's Ive's name which is important...if the machine is used or not - doesn't matter. It's all an excuse to spend the money so some rich person can brag for 30 seconds about their "important" purchase and subsequent tax write-off.
Hypocrisy or not, Apple is not (by law or even any contemporary sense of ethics) obliged to contribute to charity. Sir Ive has even less obligation than the corporation known as Apple (by a certain point of view).
Get a grip. Who cares. It's red, shiny, and some rich person will buy it and some charity will get some money they didn't have before.
What have any of you done for charity, lately?
yep - that's what I thought.
If one were to perform some basic research, one could find plenty of very, very wealthy people who contribute even less of their time and wealth to charity. Not defending anyone - just rather amused/annoyed at the, uh, uninformed reactionary responses itt.
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What's with the pretentious "Jony Ive Designs...." headline?
He painted a trash can Mac Pro red. Nothing more.
And it's not a stroke of design genius to do nothing more than paint a "Product (Red)" item red.
He painted a trash can Mac Pro red. Nothing more.
And it's not a stroke of design genius to do nothing more than paint a "Product (Red)" item red.
Not bidding... 
The first house I lived in was $45,000.00. I don't care if Jony Ive delivers it on his knees, Apple is safe of having him have to do it.
Imagine the resale value if it though... Getting Jony and Tim to autograph it would help the value.
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I'm sure that it was anodized red, not 'painted'... But still...
The first house I lived in was $45,000.00. I don't care if Jony Ive delivers it on his knees, Apple is safe of having him have to do it.
Imagine the resale value if it though... Getting Jony and Tim to autograph it would help the value.
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I'm sure that it was anodized red, not 'painted'... But still...
In a lot of ways, I would consider this sort of charity product not that much different than Andy Warhol pop art.
It is. I wish we mere mortals could get one.
I might just get the base model $2999 Mac Pro and then Krylon the sh** out of it.
I think that the red actually looks good... Perhaps Apple should have it available in other colors either instead of, or instead of black. A black tube just looks so plain... Imagine it in blue... SEXY!!!
At the end of the day - perhaps the black color is deliberate.
Would you rather own:
1) A PC which works and looks ugly
2) A PC which looks wonderful and performs like frozen mud?
Fewer color/external/superficial designs options lowers Apple's overall cost of production. It's already a pricey (as some will critique) enough machine.
Particularly that second picture with it's clothes off!
Where do the Dilithium crystals go?
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Ohhhh. Cobalt blue Mac Pro.... With a PCIe slot and a second PCIe SSD. Ohhh.
Who here referred to this as "design genius"? It's a news item about a red Mac Pro being auctioned off for charity. One would assume Ive was involved in the design of the original Mac Pro and this is just a custom version of that.
If I got a Mac Pro, the first thing I'd do is wrap it in blinking Christmas lights, and weld a spoiler to the top of it.
Really? Ivy designed a red Mac Pro? I'm pretty sure it's the same Mac Pro everyone else gets except it's red. The original Model T came in black. Had Henry Ford decided to paint a few of them red, the headline wouldn't read HENRY FORD DESIGNES NEW RED MODEL T, it would read HENRY FORD BUYS PAINT AND SLAPS IT ON HIS CARS
As the well-known fictitious t.v. show character House would say, you're a m****. The phrase "designed" is editorialized.
http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2013/null-n09014/lot.27.html
" Selected and customised by Jony Ive and Marc Newson "
Read the source, not the bias.
"custom" is the word.