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The latest evidence that Steve Jobs is as wacko as his detractors paint him: a mere three days after the iBook has been replaced by a 13-inch Core Duo laptop with a glossy screen and the first ever black paint job on an Apple computer, Apple’s home page prominently displays… the New York Apple Store (now with a neat time-lapse animation). You know, that place that’s just made to sell computers. (And iPods). Guess which of the two occasions was worthy of Steve’s presence?

But then, the store is a cube, whereas the MacBook… well, it has the right number of faces and corners, but it definitely doesn’t abide by the jobsian golden number.

 

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A comment on The Mac Observer (on an article suggesting that the next top of the line will be a pizza-box media center — nevermind that nobody has a big CRT monitor to place on top of a pizza box, and incidentally the reason towers are so big is that professionals need expandability):

Come on people. This is Apple we’re talking about. Steve Jobs. You know, the guy who designed the NeXT cube. The guy who designed the G4 Cube. The guy who already showed his hand on what the next Apple desktop will look like when he designed this.

Got to wonder how the iPod, and particularly the shuffle, evaded that trend. Maybe, if Steve Jobs wore baggy pants rather than tight jeans…

 

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