The New Yorker’s extensive interview with Apple’s Senior Vice President of Design Sir Jonathan Ive. Gather round, Apple fanboys and fangirls:
Ive was brushing his hand across the top of his head, and talking quietly. He is impeccably solicitous, with frowns of attention and apologies for lateness or workplace untidiness, and he seems to extend this tone to everyone—including, presumably, to the crew of his twenty-seat Gulfstream GV, which he bought from Powell Jobs after her husband’s death, in 2011. He communicates with his friend Paul Smith, the British fashion designer, largely through postcards that, as Smith recently recalled, contain “words like ‘lovely,’ ‘special,’ ‘so nice’—a language that is particular to his gentleness.”
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(Pic Pari Dukovic, New Yorker)
…I’ve an old Paul Smith coat somewhere…maybe I should stick it on eBay…lovely
A gentleness needed in the factories that make Apple’s products.
And the factories where your phone/laptop/tablet/desktop/tv/fridge* that you used to post that comment was made. Usual boring nonsense Apple bashing. Same can be said for all companies that have factories in China/far east, tech,textiles or other wise.
*broadsheet fridge app coming soon
True. But Apple make it a business plan to pretend they don’t know their staff are basically slaves. Other companies at least admit that some practises could be better.
Link?
Brian S, you’re absolutely right, I am an Apple customer, and I’d prefer if my computer were made in a factory where working conditions are good.
It’s the pressure of customers and shareholders that will make Apple change its manufacturing practices, just as happened with Cadbury and other chocolatiers in the 19th century when their customers objected to the source of their products being farmed under slave conditions; protest, coverage by journalists and a lawsuit resulted in the chocolate makers co-operating rather than competing, and they all stopped using profiteering subcontractors.
If you don’t want to work in Foxconn don’t. It’s not slave labour. No one rounds up migrant Chinese workers and puts them in factories.
Funny you should say that….
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/oct/14/forced-student-labour-china-apple
Sounds positively sociopathic to me
Like knows like I guess.
Withering. Draw a cartoon why don’t you?
Of you withering? No thanks.
Seriously, you’re very talented. Clampers loves you. And your cartoons. Where else can I see your work? Pfft..
I left a tip on yer ma’s locker and I think she had that framed.
I left a tip elsewhere too! If you get my meaning!
I’m referring to my penis.
In your mother.
Just so there’s no ambiguity.
Yawn and Pfft.
We have ‘Comment Bankruptcy’ Bingo!
Congratulations. Collect your prize on the way out.
Ah Mani. Is that your best? I kinda thought you were a big deal around these parts?
‘These parts’? Have you had a stroke?
Only one picture of him? I found this very difficult to masturbate to. I tell ya, if it weren’t for my retina display..
Haha :)
Wow that article drops more names than something that is responsible for preventing names from dropping but fails a lot.
Uber-meh !
I had to read it all, I just had to…. what fawning rubbish ffs.
In summary, it went a bit like this…. Step into my caravan, and hold this heifer at arms length and this bullock close to your eye. Now… this ego is near and appears very big, but that ego is actually bigger but is far away. Now keep holding them like that, in the nude, and I’ll have myself a stroke.