Is iPhone HD/iPhone 4G the iPhone Jonathan Ive always wanted to make?
The 4th generation iPhone HD/iPhone 4G revealed this week doesn’t look exactly like the iPhones that have come before, but could it just be the iPhone Apple’s senior vice-president of design, Jonathan Ive has always wanted to make? If you’re not familiar with Ive, a man who’s won more high-level design awards than just about every other consumer electronics whiz on the planet combined, just look at any Apple product since the iMac. The iPod, iPhone, and iPad — and few unibody MacBooks and Magic Mice in-between — have all come from Jonathan Ive and his team. From deep, monochromatic plastics to unblemished aluminum to polished black glass, it would be fair to call Ive’s work industry leading — if the rest of the industry hadn’t but lately decided design was even something worth considering. The original iPhone 2G in 2007 was something new for Apple and Ive, and it had to work, just work, flawlessly out of the box, and you could see it’s compromises right on the large black plastic strip
