January 10th, 2007
Jonathan Ive on the iPhone
While the whole world pours over iPhone rumours, specifications and comment in an orgy of technolust, Lev Grossman over at Time has managed to speak to the man who designed the product. Here are some choice extracts:
“Your phone’s got feet on,” he says, not unkindly. “Why would anybody put feet on a phone?” Ive has the answer, of course: “It raises the speaker on the back off the table. But the right solution is to put the speaker in the right place in the first place. That’s why our speaker isn’t on the bottom, so you can have it on the table, and you don’t need feet.” Sure enough, no feet toe the iPhone’s smooth lines.
RSS for comments You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.“I think there’s almost a belligerence—people are frustrated with their manufactured environment,” says Ive. “We tend to assume the problem is with us, and not with the products we’re trying to use.”