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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."
more damage than all of the fictional deities combined ever conjured up?
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free the innocent stem cells
Why does he talk like a mong? What's with the stupid t-shirts? Why do Apple fanboys worship this talentless retard?
"It's an unlikely project for a software engineer with no formal photography training."
Sounds pretty likely to me.
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This has been a public service announcement.
wasn't Seve Wozniak in there somewhere?
Increasingly, Apple is not for doers. It is not for power users. It is
not for creators. It is not for people who think different. It is for
posers. It is for hipsters. It is for metrosexuals. It is for wannabes
and pretenders.
Show the Apple ][ keyboard with the reset key next to the enter key. BEEP!
Ahhhh, insanely great design!
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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The latest move by Apple, removal of local iOS device sync in Mavericks,
such that a user who wants to sync his PERSONAL data has to transmit
that data to the cloud, was for me as a long time Apple user, the last straw.
I put my Macbook Pro and my iPhone for sale on Craigslist, and I will never buy
Apple and its "looks matter more than function" design again. I admit I feel like
Apple has conned me, but it will be a cold day in hell before it happens again.
Fuck Apple and its "design". The truth is that it DOESN'T "just work", it is a mess
and it has wasted a lot of my time. Well, Apple won't be wasting any more of my time.
Look very carefully into Apple now before you buy their products. Functionality has
been reduced, and in many cases backward steps have been taken. And worst of
all, Apple has removed options instead of adding them or retaining old options.
I don't know whose fault this is -- is it Tim Cook, is it Phil Schiller, is it that pretentious
twit Jony Ive ? Or is it just their corporate culture ? For me I reckon it doesn't matter,
because Apple will never get another chance to waste my time.
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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)
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.
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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.
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.
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.