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Around the Internet => Antimustachian Wall of Shame and Comedy => Topic started by: mustachepungoeshere on November 15, 2016, 07:02:00 PM

Title: Apple releases $300 catalo - ahem, coffee table book. It's a consumer's bible.
Post by: mustachepungoeshere on November 15, 2016, 07:02:00 PM: Quote
Running out of Christmas ideas for that diehard Apple fan in your life? Well, how about a $299 coffee table book filled with 450 photographs of Apple products.

The iPhone-maker unveiled just such a tome today, announcing that the book will go on sale tomorrow at Apple.com and in select Apple retail stores. It’s a hardcover edition, bound in linen, and is available in two sizes: $199 for a smaller 10.20" x 12.75" version, and $299 for a larger 13" x 16.25" edition.

The book is simply titled Designed by Apple in California — a name that somehow manages to be both humble and incredibly pretentious at the same time.

The photos inside are all new images shot by Andrew Zuckerman, and will show off 20 years of Apple design "in a deliberately spare style." In a press statement, chief designer Jony Ive described the book as "a gentle gathering of many of the products the team has designed over the years," and hoped that it would serve as a "resource for students of all design disciplines."

http://www.theverge.com/2016/11/15/13635788/apple-coffee-table-book-products-images
Title: Re: Apple releases $300 catalo - ahem, coffee table book. It's a consumer's bible.
Post by: MgoSam on November 15, 2016, 07:43:19 PM: Replace apple with X (ess glamorious company) and this coffee book becomes something that the CEO of X gives vindictively to all employees instead of a Christmas bonus.
Title: Re: Apple releases $300 catalo - ahem, coffee table book. It's a consumer's bible.
Post by: gimp on November 15, 2016, 08:10:15 PM: "It's one book, Michael. What could it cost? $300?"

Shamelessly stolen from my friend.
Title: Re: Apple releases $300 catalo - ahem, coffee table book. It's a consumer's bible.
Post by: I'm a red panda on November 16, 2016, 06:49:14 AM: Quote from: MgoSam on November 15, 2016, 07:43:19 PM
Replace apple with X (ess glamorious company) and this coffee book becomes something that the CEO of X gives vindictively to all employees instead of a Christmas bonus.

I got one of those from a previous company. WTH am I supposed to do with that?

Of course, we never got bonuses anyway, but still- I don't want this!
Title: Re: Apple releases $300 catalo - ahem, coffee table book. It's a consumer's bible.
Post by: Papa Mustache on November 18, 2016, 12:47:26 PM: Hey, having the book printed up is cheaper than a $1500 per employee bonus...

Thank you everyone! We had an amazing year this year, dear employees. And all you're going to get is this lousy T-shirt... ;)
Title: Re: Apple releases $300 catalo - ahem, coffee table book. It's a consumer's bible.
Post by: gimp on November 18, 2016, 05:29:23 PM: Apple isn't giving these to employees, and as far as I know, they don't give a $1500 (or any) holiday bonus either.

They pay pretty decently.
Title: Re: Apple releases $300 catalo - ahem, coffee table book. It's a consumer's bible.
Post by: Metric Mouse on November 19, 2016, 11:24:22 AM: I love how the chief designer himself calls the book Ironic. Can't get much more hipster than that.