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Jonathan Ive - Apple's Design Magician 211

conq writes "BusinessWeek takes an in-depth look at the man behind the Apple magic. The article features a slideshow with all his designs (including one before he was with Apple)." From the article: "During an internship with design consultancy Roberts Weaver Group, he created a pen that had a ball and clip mechanism on top, for no purpose other than to give the owner something to fiddle with. 'It immediately became the owner's prize possession, something you always wanted to play with,' recalls Grinyer, a Roberts Weaver staffer at the time. 'We began to call it having Jony-ness, an extra something that would tap into the product's underlying emotion.'"

Comment Re:Patent Abuse (Score 1) 428

Patents and copyrights are only necessary because people WILL steal an idea if they arnt clever enough to have it themselves (Microsoft?) just to make large amounts of money. The entire problem is created by greed, a basic human desire to have more than the next man.
Answer: Create a law that stops people stealing other peoples ideas.
Problem: People who are clever can pervert the law so that they can make money out of it anyway.

BTW, has anyone thought of patenting a patent and the process of patenting. Surely that must be covered?

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