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An Apple photo book... for $300?!?!
For the die-hardiest of die-hardiest of die-hard Apple fans, comes the $300 Apple photo book: a book... selling for $300 for 450 photos of Apple products.
The link says it all. And more. Soooo much more.
Yup.
Yupper!
Just in time for Christmas, when you may just have too much money in your pocket.
Yup.
http://www.theverge.com/2016/11/15/13635788/apple-coffee-table-book-products-images
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Apple Releases Book of Product Photos for $200-300
Do you like the smooth, curvy rectangles and sleek designs of Apple products? Now you can have all of them on your coffee table:
Apple today announced the release of a new hardbound book chronicling 20 years of Apple's design, expressed through 450 photographs of past and current Apple products. "Designed by Apple in California," which covers products from 1998's iMac to 2015's Apple Pencil, also documents the materials and techniques used by Apple's design team over two decades of innovation.
The book is dedicated to the memory of Steve Jobs.
It makes the perfect holiday gift for the Apple lover in your life. And it even comes printed on "special paper":
The heavily illustrated book looks at Apple products from 1998's iMac to 2015's Apple Pencil. It documents the materials and techniques that Apple's designers used to make them. Photographer, Andrew Zuckerman, took the images. The title is dedicated to Steve Jobs. And it is, "printed on specially milled, custom-dyed paper with gilded matte silver edges, using eight color separations and low-ghost ink," Apple states. Special. Paper.
"The idea of genuinely trying to make something great for humanity was Steve's motivation from the beginning, and it remains both our ideal and our goal as Apple looks to the future," said Jony Ive, Apple's chief design officer (interestingly, Apple now seems to like to make job titles lower case).
Also at The Verge.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 16 2016, @07:16PM
Overpriced nostalgia, and when did Apple ever do something for the good of humanity? Overpriced yet high quality hardware powering substandard software. At least the software has improved in the last 5 years, but without Jobs they've lost their way a bit.
Apple: the snake oil salesmen of computing. And now competing with your college textbooks for most outrageously priced paper.
(Score: 2) by Flyingmoose on Wednesday November 16 2016, @07:24PM
If Apple's software is substandard, what's Microsoft's?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 16 2016, @07:39PM
THE standard!
At least if you believe M$ and their efforts to cram it down our throats. I will give M$ a nod for allowing users to do just about whatever they want with their system, well in the past anyway. Win10 is the North Korea of the software world.
(Score: 2) by VLM on Wednesday November 16 2016, @09:38PM
Win10 is the North Korea of the software world.
It eats dogs?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 16 2016, @10:09PM
You may think its cute to get pics of your pupper "working" on your laptop, but please please PLEASE don't do it! Ever seen an animal protoneuralized? Yeah, ugly stuff.
(Score: 2) by fido_dogstoyevsky on Thursday November 17 2016, @01:31AM
If Apple's software is substandard, what's Microsoft's?
Comparing pot to kettle?
It's NOT a conspiracy... it's a plot.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 16 2016, @11:29PM
High quality hardware? You have got to be kidding. I know many people that have issues with their Apple hardware, their thin laptops that throttle back due to high heat etc.
Trust me I work at a Uni and see lots of bad Apple hardware.
(Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Thursday November 17 2016, @03:45AM
Everybody I know personally who has Apple hardware has had a great experience with their gear lasting forever and with a great warranty as well.
Unfortunately, Apple computers are still seen as gay. So it helps a lot if you're gay, or a woman.
(Score: 2) by dyingtolive on Thursday November 17 2016, @01:03AM
All I can think is "wow, I bought my girlfriend a secondhand Mac Mini for that much."
Don't blame me, I voted for moose wang!