Apple's Jony Ive donates one-of-a-kind iPad Pro & accessories to charity auction
An auction in London is featuring a custom 12.9-inch iPad Pro and accompanying Smart Cover, Apple Pencil and holder as one of its lots, as donated by Apple SDO Jony Ive and his design team.
The special iPad will be one of 39 lots in the upcoming "Time for Design" auction being held by the Design Museum, in collaboration with Phillips, to help fund relocation efforts, Wallpaper reports.
Laser engraved "Edition 1 of 1," the iPad Pro features a custom yellow gold anodized chassis and comes with a matching blue Smart Cover crafted from French leather. An Apple Pencil with similar yellow gold gilding is also included and comes with an orange made from Italian calf leather.
Ive's relationship with the Design Museum goes back decades. The famous designer showed off a prototype mobile phone at the museum in 1990, just two years before he made the switch from Apple contractor to employee. In 2003, Ive won the museum's first "Designer of the Year" award for his work on iMac.
Owning the collection comes at quite the premium, however, as the lot is estimated to sell for between 10,000 pounds and 15,000 pounds, or $14,200 and $21,300. The Time for Design auction will be held on April 28.
The special iPad will be one of 39 lots in the upcoming "Time for Design" auction being held by the Design Museum, in collaboration with Phillips, to help fund relocation efforts, Wallpaper reports.
Laser engraved "Edition 1 of 1," the iPad Pro features a custom yellow gold anodized chassis and comes with a matching blue Smart Cover crafted from French leather. An Apple Pencil with similar yellow gold gilding is also included and comes with an orange made from Italian calf leather.
Ive's relationship with the Design Museum goes back decades. The famous designer showed off a prototype mobile phone at the museum in 1990, just two years before he made the switch from Apple contractor to employee. In 2003, Ive won the museum's first "Designer of the Year" award for his work on iMac.
Owning the collection comes at quite the premium, however, as the lot is estimated to sell for between 10,000 pounds and 15,000 pounds, or $14,200 and $21,300. The Time for Design auction will be held on April 28.
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The car is still in realm of at best a vague/long-run possibility; the Watch is great (I love mine), but will not move the needle as long it remains a subset of the iPhone for its full set of capabilities; the 'living room' does not seem to be going anywhere, certainly not with the current version of AppleTV; there is little, if any news on ApplePay or CarPlay; and nothing at all on HealthKit or HomeKit. Moreover, iLife, OS X, iOS, iWork, Quicktime, etc. are mature offerings where the norm is largely unexciting, incremental improvements -- in fact, far more important news would be simplification. iCloud is OK, not remotely a home run the way that the cloud has been for Microsoft or Amazon. AppleMusic is still a 'Meh' service for me, and there has not been much on the Beats hardware front.
Apple made record sales and profits through every quarter of the “Great Recession” (which never ended, but going by the “accepted” end date), but they won’t do the same this time around. There’ll have to be a huge drop in prices for most tech companies to survive, and is that even a possibility? I don’t think so, what with rare metal production not exploding.