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Design Like Apple: Seven Principles For Creating Insanely Great Products, Services, and Experiences
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Computers, he argued, should work like home appliances. The ideal computer would require almost no learning curve or upkeep. You wouldn’t have to upgrade its operating system, say, or install ... See more
Jon Rubinstein, who was in charge of hardware, adapted the microprocessor and guts of the PowerMac G3, Apple’s high-end professional computer, for use in the proposed new machine. It would have a hard drive and a tray for compact disks, but in a rather bold move, Jobs and Rubinstein decided not to include the usual floppy disk drive. Jobs quoted th
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Apple is building a scenario of life in which people rent or buy movies at the iTunes stores, download songs from this online store and listen to them through the iPod, and back up data and upload applications wirelessly. In this scenario there is no room for CDs and DVDs. Apple has therefore released its newest notebook, the MacBook Air, without a
... See moreRoberto Verganti • Design Driven Innovation: Changing the Rules of Competition by Radically Innovating What Things Mean
Engineers—bottom-of-the-org-chart people—could come up with the ideas that would be the next hot products for the company. Everything was open to thought, discussion, and innovation. So I would never leave Hewlett-Packard. I was going to be an engineer for life there.
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Creative Selection: Inside Apple's Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs
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