Charles on… anything that comes along

It’s only occasionally tedious, but someone has occasionally to point out to Paul Thurrott (the Eeyore of Mac blogging®) that it would be nice if he could be faintly accurate sometimes.

For instance, when he goes off on a rant* about the design of the new iMac G5, and the Briton who heads Apple’s design team: You know, screwing with Ives is about as dangerous as screwing with Jobs: The guy is so revered in the Mac community that few will admit he’s capable of a bomb. But the iMac G5 is such a bomb: Derivative and uninspiring. … I won’t be buying this version, and someone needs to call the pretentious Ives to task for his pompous and conceited baloney about the iMac G5 design. There, I’ve said it. And I feel better now.

Nice that you feel better (despite not having seen it, and thus basing your decision on images that don’t do it justice). Now, for accuracy’s sake, the guy’s name is Jonathan Ive, and always has been. But this being the web, you can correct it.

Actually, Ive isn’t pretentious. When I met him, he was very focussed on the problem of how you get all the stuff into the space while making it look good. I asked him which existing designers he admired. “The people who do satellites,” he said. “They can’t waste the tiniest bit of space.”

* Update Tues 1700: ah, the Ive/Ives spelling mistake has been corrected, though not acknowledged. Psychiatrists are invited to analyse this behaviour. Orderly queue, please.

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