I must admit that I was mystified by Apple’s recent announcement of some freaky-looking iMac designs. I’ve always been a big fan of Apple’s industrial design, and watched with amusement as beige box makers like Compaq take design cues from Apple, long after the fact and after years of derision on the part of PC-heads. Well, big surprise, folks, design matters, especially now that most people who are going to get a computer already have one. Case in point: the incredibly sexy titanium PowerBook G4 has everyone (including me) literally drooling.
But Flower Power and Blue Dalmation? These are just begging for parody.