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Brit Wins Design Award For Apple IMac
News Apple's industrial design guru Jonathan Ive was named "Designer of the Year" by London's Design Museum, earning a prize of $40,927 (£25,000). What will Apple come up with next? The winner of the award, which is new this year, was chosen by a panel...
[June 3, 2003, 15:38]
Mac Mobile Links On The Way
News Apple product managers have told Macworld UK that Mac users can expect mobile phone links with their portable systems, iBook-like design elements for the PowerBook, third-party Bluetooth add-ons and a WAP-compatible FileMaker plug-in.
[March 14, 2000, 10:12]
New IMac Pared Down
News Apple Computer took a minimalist approach to the design of its third-generation iMac, which debuted on Tuesday. The computer maker unveiled the design -- its third all-in-one iMac -- at the Apple Expo in Paris.
[August 31, 2004, 12:10]
US Telecoms Giant Looks At Throwing Windows Out
Talkback Apple has a 2-5% market share, depending on who you ask. Since Apple to a Unix OS (OSX) they have basically the same marketshare, but no, that is ZERO known viruses have been found that affect OSX. Uninformed people like to assert the...
[October 6, 2004, 18:43]
Is The Mac Mini Good Value?
Talkback I think Apple has discovered the secret of luring new customers, which truly is about design/appearance now. Apple has already proven that with the iPod, which has many lower priced competitors now, but STILL dominates the portable MP3 player market.
[January 13, 2005, 21:18]
Macworld: New IMac 'less Shocking' Than Original
News The iMac has come to mean so much," said Apple design guru Jonathan Ive, who helped shape the original iMac as well as more recent PowerBooks, iBooks and the iPod. As a result, Apple plans to keep two versions of its older iMac design: a bare-bones...
[January 9, 2002, 9:00]
Vice City, IPod, IMac Nominated For Design Award
News Apple hardware and the video game Grand Theft Auto III: Vice City have been nominated for a new British design award alongside works in more traditional media such as jewellery and crystal, although the game's violent content means it will be...
[January 10, 2003, 13:17]
Macworld: Apple Tightens Competition With New IBook
News Apple Computer has often led other notebook manufacturers when it comes to design, but with its new iBook, the company is also closing the gap with competitors in another area: price. Apple also places heavy emphasis on industrial design, which can...
[January 8, 2002, 9:45]
Gartner: Apple Should Quit Hardware Business
Talkback Apple is a solid business and growing. Hence Apple will continue as it has. The whole point of Apple is that both software and hardware are desinged well and work together well. Apple doesn't weant to be Microsoft (especially now that MS are...
[October 19, 2006, 12:20]
Palm To Unveil Translucent Palm IIIe
News For that revolution in hand-held computing, consumers will have to wait a little longer, or go to ZDNet's own Apple PDA design. It has for a while been rumoured that Palm is working with Apple on producing an Apple PDA.
[August 3, 1999, 9:32]
Apple Designer Makes It Into Who's Who
News Ive is Apple's senior vice president of design. Born in North London, he joined Apple in 1992, and led the industrial design team that created the look for the iMac, whose translucent colours and attractive curves have made it a design classic.
[January 3, 2007, 13:56]
HP To Resell Blue IPod
News Apple will manufacture the player, which will not have the iPod name but will have the same design and features as Apple's third-generation iPod players, Phil Schiller, senior vice president at Apple, said in an interview.
[January 9, 2004, 14:20]
Mercury Rising: PowerBook To Pack G4
News Availability of the high-end chips proved to be a stumbling block last fall, when "errata" in early versions of Motorola's processor design prevented Apple from shipping G4 systems at a promised top speed of 500MHz.
[July 26, 2000, 8:41]
Will Cube Copy Bring Apple's Wrath?
News With the arrival of DA Computing Technology's recently announced "Cube-alike" Komodo Server at Comdex Fall 2000 in Las Vegas, Apple watchers across the Web are speculating whether the latest apparent homage to the Mac maker's industrial design...
[November 17, 2000, 9:26]
Apple Designer Honoured By The Queen
Blog He started his career with Apple in 1992 and rose to fame in 1998 when Steve Jobs decided to adopt his bubble-shaped design for the iMac. Just last month he was named as the senior vice president of Industrial Design at Apple, reporting directly to...
[November 17, 2006, 11:53]
PowerBook Owners See Spots
News Hundreds of owners of Apple Computer's new 15-inch PowerBook G4 are complaining about an apparent design fault that causes white spots to show up on the notebook computer's liquid crystal display. Apple said on Friday that it is looking into the...
[November 3, 2003, 8:35]
New IMacs Draw Record Pre-orders
News Apple's fortunes are considered to be largely dependent on its ability to deliver popular new products, but some design successes -- like the discontinued Cube -- failed to appeal to buyers. The first iMac went on to put Apple back on the map and...
[January 30, 2002, 14:43]
Apple Rings The Changes With The IPhone
News I'd rather just wipe fingerprints off [the iPhone]," rather than settle for a more conventional design, said Claire Fontana, ogling the iPhone in Apple's booth on the show floor. In one of the most anticipated gadget announcements in recent years...
[January 10, 2007, 7:46]
Apple Sues EMachines Over EOne
News Apple said Thursday it had filed suit against eMachines in US Federal Court in San Jose, California, and is asking a judge to stop the company from shipping its new eOne computer. Apple is seeking unspecified damages from eMachines.
[August 20, 1999, 8:45]
IMac Emulators Will Always Fail - Design Guru
News PC manufacturers have failed to learn the lessons dealt out by Apple -- a failure that could lead them to obscurity -- according to a UK finalist in the International Forum Design awards, Alloy Total Design.
[March 11, 2002, 16:06]
