This month's
Creative Review magazine (the one with the snake cover) includes designer
Malcolm Garrett interviewing the 'single person or team he admires most in the creative industry'. Yes, you guessed it, it's
Jonathan Ive. How Apple let this interview happen is beyond me, I mean Garrett is a complete apple FAN and when a fan meets his hero, anything could happen. He's been using then for twenty years and the questions he asked were so nerdy (well done!) He started babbling on about Apple dropping
handhelds, OS X looking like something from Disney, how confusing his MiniDisk player was,
Newtons (again) and what Steve Jobs was like to work with. It wasn't the open 'designer to designer' chat he was hoping for. Ive gave away no clues to future of Apple (as always), the Apple PR person with them made sure they stuck to the confidentiality aggrement.
Apple should have stuck with
Newton. It was a pre-Palm, huge brick of a PDA that didn't really recognise anyone's handwriting. It was first on the market and Apple dropped it way before handhelds took off big time. (You can still find them in
The Computer Exchange on good ole' Tottenham Court Road.)
Garrett is right about the look of X, but this should be customiseable when they finally get round to X desktop themes. My God! He should see how childish AOL for X looks!
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Another mag to look out for is
iCreate. It's only on the second issue but it full of cool Mac Porn and has many useful guides to all of the iApps. The free CD includes iPod Viewer - a utility that enables you to copy tracks from an iPod. Sorry, I mean use the tracks on your iPod as a backup ;-)
Picture: ©iCreate
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