Apple design chief Jony Ive knighted - but not by the Queen
Apple's VP of Industrial Design Jonathan Ive was knighted today by the Princess Royal at Buckingham Palace. Ive was dubbed a knight for his services to design and enterprise. Ive – born in Chingford, Essex – was plucked out of a comparatively lowly job at Apple by Steve Jobs himself, who spotted Ives' potential when he returned …
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@SB
SB said: "I'd much rather ponce around on my estate cooking biscuits...
I very much enjoy the way in which you've shown your true colours here. Seems as though it's "morally reprehensible" that some people are _considerably richer than yow_... but then perhaps it is safe to assume - based, again, on your thoughtful and incisive commentary - that if you were the one with the butler, you might just find it in your heart to be slightly more "conformist".
You don't have any idea what the Queen actually does, do you?
Check her diary. I bet you wouldn't be able to manage two weeks of what she does. She's 86, and has dedicated her life to serving others. I'm going to take a wild stab in the dark and guess that you dedicate yourself to serving yourself whatever's in your parents' fridge when you get home from art college. No doubt you'll have some impressive rebuttal, but I don't really mind: I've already judged you without knowing anything at all about you... just as you seem to be doing to HRH.
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Myself, I don't hate the Queen, in fact my Uncle adored her and because of Him I have a beautiful old tin commemorating her engagement to Prince Philip - about the size of a laptop, 2 inches deep, with a color photograph of the happy couple printed on it - and a souvenir coronation mug (he collected them, some very valuable, I don't think mine is). He always wanted to live in England yet did not get an opportunity to fulfill this wish.
I think you were harsh on SB in your message. I would rather ponce (like prancing, I would guess) on my estate cooking biscuits too. I can imagine some of what the Queen does, and no thank you.
Just wanted to make sure you didn't think that was a bad thing. Poncing around cooking biscuits, I mean.
Awesomely predictable...
that, as usual, the comment pages of ElReg are stuffed with vitriol the minute that anyone in the public eye is applauded or rewarded for doing anything. So here we have all the warbling along the lines of "it's only a rectangle" or "mediocre art schooler in the right place at the right time", "he's not an engineer only a designer". The Queen and the royal family are not spared any rancour either, it seems.
The problem is that the only thing these bitter and twisted little outbursts achieve is to highlight how petulant, self-righteous, intolerant, judgemental and unsophisticated the originators must be.
Here's something to ponder: if all that energy that was devoted to all this resentment was put towards something positive, what could be achieved?
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Can I add: To all of those who think you can do do better, send your CV off to Apple. I'm sure they are eager to hear from you.
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Awesomely predictable == predictably awesome...
...or neither you nor I would be here (well, probably we would, as El Reg does occasionally cover IT or other related stories, but I digress).
OK, so the constant warring is not awesome in the slightest*, but aren't most of us here as a brief respite from shovelling coal into some IT/project management/technology/whatever furnace? Given generally accepted theories re: small semi-frequent breaks and their positive effect on productivity, is it so far-fetched that this outpouring of vitriol might actually increase economic output somewhere, somehow...?
A stretch, probably. Either way, it seems none of us are immune to the giddy thrill of a wee dram of petulant, self-righteous, intolerant, judgemental and unsophisticated semi-anonymous judgement. I know I'm not.
* it may not be awesome, but it can be fun?
PS I'm awarding myself a FAIL for being unable to type reel gud (or proof my own comments prior to submitting them), despite my fairly complete awareness of the Preview function. Sorry for the deleted posts...
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@AB: touché, mon brâve...
you're right about the coal shovelling too, as it happens.
AB again!
"it seems none of us are immune to the giddy thrill of a wee dram of petulant, self-righteous, intolerant, judgemental and unsophisticated semi-anonymous judgement. I know I'm not."
Me either but here at the Reg I endeavor to be respectful. Other commentards may not realize the pains I take to use American spelling and American references and American humor in order to not be seen as patronizing my esteemed colleagues in England, wherever that is.
I like to laugh and even petulant self-righteous, intolerant, judgemental comments can be funny. For instance, I stayed out of the design argument (own opinions and who cares?) but had to laugh at the 'Look I've drawn a rectangle where's my knighthood?' comment. Now that was funny. Since I am a lady I did not guffaw, however I did laugh.
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