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The Art of Apple, In Pictures
Hugh Pickens DOT Com writes "CNN reports that self-professed Apple fanatic Jonathan Zufi has published a book of photography profiling 500 of Apple's products through the years, because unlike other companies Apple has unapologetically focused on design says Zufi and he wants to celebrate that with his images. 'Other companies came up with the guts for a machine and then the engineers would find a way to stuff them into a box,' says Zufi. 'Steve Jobs started with the box and said, "You need to find a way to get the guts in."' It's an unlikely project for a software engineer with no formal photography training. Zufi bought new equipment and consulted with a professional as he began the project, which was four years in the making. 'I had a sudden memory of an old game I used to play in high school called Robot War,' says Zufi. 'I hopped on eBay to look for the game and an old Apple II to play it on, and that's how I ended up looking through old Apple products.' Zufi says that he approached each shot by looking for an image that would 'create that same emotional connection to that product, but maybe doesn't look like something you've seen before,' and says that his mission is to showcase the entire spectrum of products that Apple have sold to the public since 1976 – every desktop, every laptop, every notebook, monitor, iPod, iPad, iPhone, mouse, keyboard, modem, cable, port, adapter, docking station, memory expansion card — and that's just their hardware."
"It's an unlikely project for a software engineer with no formal photography training."
Sounds pretty likely to me.
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wasn't Seve Wozniak in there somewhere?
Right. How about throwing in some uppercase letters into your message to not look like an incompetent moron.
Show the Apple ][ keyboard with the reset key next to the enter key. BEEP!
Ahhhh, insanely great design!
Yeah, all smoke - no fire!
Wait till I show 'em all! I'm making a coffee table book full of the iconic design from GE and Dell!
"Flyin' in just a sweet place,
Never been known to fail..."
There is a difference ya know...Fanbois just hate other products while putting praise on one company's products and an enthusiastic person who loves a company's products doesn't hate, he remains neutral to the stuff he doesn't like, and doesn't troll when other people diss on the products that he loves..
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Meanwhile, I've unapologetically focused on buying hardware with the features I want that runs the software I want. On a few occasions, that's been made by Apple. Most of the time, it hasn't.
- Michael T. Babcock (Yes, I blog)
Funniest thing I've read on /. all week.
No, these other companies weren't coming up with "the" guts, not back in the eighties and nineties.
Back then the "ap" was called an "expansion card" by serious users. If you had 10 megabits and you wanted 100 megabits, you could do that. If you wanted to stagger upgrading your system board and your video card, you could do that, too, with a bit of planning. Not "the" guts. Any guts.
We also had the notion of consumables which could be replaced, like CMOS batteries which didn't last forever, unlike the batteries Apple now uses after their break-through innovation in pentalobular lithium alkaloids.
Jobs was designing for a highly integrated potting-compound future long before the economics of this made any sense in the mass consumer marketplace. Design takes over once functionality plateaus, i.e. once Moore's projection passes into menopause. Just because you can stuff the circuitry into a designer's wet dream doesn't mean you should.
The six worst Apple products of all time
Apple Puck Mouse
The truth of the Apple story is that the company was fortunate to survive their reality distortion field until Job's vision of the ubiquitous appliance was right for the times.
Who promulgated that caustic narrative in the first place?
Sorry, Apple did have some iconic products, but the images in TFA are crap. They included probably the most uninspired designs in Apple history and left out products that really stand out from a design viewpoint like the apple imac g3 and the mac mini.
The best example of how Windows is superior is the ability to run a terminal session/bash shell without installing any other software. Goddamned metrosexuals, forgetting how to bash shit.
yeah you keep telling yourself that. oh no you just trolled by implying the person is a "better person" and hence not a fanboi.
but dude, the site is named shrine of apple :D.
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
i'm going to make a coffee table book about coffee tables, and it will have built in legs so it becomes a coffee table!
whaa? maybe woosh, but apple has a built in bash shell. on windows i have to download an ssh client.
You ripped that idea from Seinfeld
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dE5ROl2YPbs
Seinfeld ripped it off from that nigger. You know, the yo dawg guy.
Worst haiku EVER.
I hope you die in a fire.
Around midwinter.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
The projects I've been a part of where function took priority over form usually ended up a marketing disaster. The projects I've been a part of where form took priority over function ended up operational or support disaster.
The best projects have a good balance of form and function.
You know how Amazon has wishlists? Maybe they should implement buythisformeandI'llfuckingkillyoulists?
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
But OMG Apple.... *goes to get new set of pants*
The only thing worse than doing a shitty job,
is not doing one at all.
I own a twiggy 128k Macintosh.
They do not show the DRIVE, with dual heads.
The servers. No PPC 9150? No Quadra 950? The definition of a tower?
Nothing sexy like a TAM? Twentieth Anniversary Macintosh?
Let me know what this looks like.. in 5 or 6 years, when they
ACTUALLY GET TO WORK ON IT.
Worst haiku EVER.
I hope you die in a fire.
Around midwinter.
My crystal ball says you will contract HIV and die long before I will.
And the crystal ball is never wrong.
Funny how you now look like an incompetent moron!
Cool story, bro.
Woosh :)
-- Cheers!