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Porsche will contest Laguna Seca in historic colors of the Apple Computer livery

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Re: Porsche will contest Laguna Seca in historic colors of the Apple Computer livery

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Post by snapetom »

amelius wrote: post #30
recursivedoubts wrote: post #2

apple should go back to their classic logo minimalism and thinness-for-thinnness-sake has been played out: everything looks the same and is devoid of personality. People want personality back: https://x.com/HeyZaraKhan/status/2050166377269620920 Related, MB bringing back physical buttons: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47997418 Physical media is making a comeback too (including books)

Those rainbow colors have a different connotation in popular culture. Not sure if Apple's marketing team would want to take any risks there.

Disagree. The people that buy Porches and Macs see that logo as iconic. Sexy as fuck.

Re: Porsche will contest Laguna Seca in historic colors of the Apple Computer livery

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Post by bombcar »

rafram wrote: post #9
hulitu wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> What's the argument against it every cent you invest in the product is taken from your profit.

Not if you add it to the price.

The red one goes faster. I mean costs more.

Re: Porsche will contest Laguna Seca in historic colors of the Apple Computer livery

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Post by olyjohn »

jbm wrote: post #22
postalcoder wrote: post #4

The colors look beautiful on the car. Hopefully a Ternus-lead Apple will find the courage to adorn the Macbook Pro line with six colors. I would bet there's so much pent up demand for properly colored macbooks. What's the argument against it – SKU explosion?

Is there? I walked past a parking lot yesterday and everything was in black, white and silver. When I bought my house the agent turned up her nose about the wood furnishings instead of "millennial white". The resale value of macs is one of their selling points, just like cars. Generic colours win. I contend there is no pent up demand.

Remember the old fruity iMacs and iBooks? They sold like hotcakes after Apple was making grey machines for decades before that. Pretty soon every computer manufacturer was making colorful machines. Those things had great resale value back then too.

Re: Porsche will contest Laguna Seca in historic colors of the Apple Computer livery

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Post by olyjohn »

1attice wrote: post #27
1attice wrote: post #12

It's not a 'greige' (grey-beige) paint job tho so it doesn't look very good. The rainbow apple logo needs the greige to foreground its vibrancy. White is too loud, and drowns out the pop.

Got down voted here but I was being serious. That greige colour of early Apple was part of the branding that made room for the colourful logo . These race cars break design rules and look worse for it.

Yeah except the race cars look amazing, and this is one of those liveries that has been legendary for decades.

Re: Porsche will contest Laguna Seca in historic colors of the Apple Computer livery

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Post by twoodfin »

postalcoder wrote: post #4

The colors look beautiful on the car. Hopefully a Ternus-lead Apple will find the courage to adorn the Macbook Pro line with six colors. I would bet there's so much pent up demand for properly colored macbooks. What's the argument against it – SKU explosion?

Apple is the best (not perfect!) when it comes to product marketing in the sense of delivering products the market wants. So there is surely a market reason why the iPhone Pro line went highly saturated (and black was conspicuously removed!) while the MacBooks Pro have remained monochrome.

I’m guessing it’s as simple as business users not wanting to flip up a bright orange or deep red lid at a meeting.

Re: Porsche will contest Laguna Seca in historic colors of the Apple Computer livery

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Post by xgkickt »

Waterluvian wrote: post #18
recursivedoubts wrote: post #2

apple should go back to their classic logo minimalism and thinness-for-thinnness-sake has been played out: everything looks the same and is devoid of personality. People want personality back: https://x.com/HeyZaraKhan/status/2050166377269620920 Related, MB bringing back physical buttons: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47997418 Physical media is making a comeback too (including books)

Respect to those handful of timeless brands that have pretty much never changed. Sony is basically the same since the 50s.

I wish they’d bring back the original PlayStation logo though, not just on anniversary editions.

Re: Porsche will contest Laguna Seca in historic colors of the Apple Computer livery

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Post by disqard »

DauntingPear7 wrote: post #6
recursivedoubts wrote: post #2

apple should go back to their classic logo minimalism and thinness-for-thinnness-sake has been played out: everything looks the same and is devoid of personality. People want personality back: https://x.com/HeyZaraKhan/status/2050166377269620920 Related, MB bringing back physical buttons: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47997418 Physical media is making a comeback too (including books)

I had an IT job where I got to replace ink in enterprise printers and the tactility was great. I completely understand the convenience of always plugged in and connected drives, but for some media it would be great to have some clicks or tactility when plugging things in, and having more plug and play storage options. I miss the days of plugging in a “thing” which holds a defined media or set of media. Game disks and…

I love this too! What do you think of the "halfway faked" devices like the Yoto player [0]? My kid uses it to listen to audiobooks -- it has no actual content on the card, just rfid telling the device (now set this as the current album for playback).

[0] https://us.yotoplay.com/

Re: Porsche will contest Laguna Seca in historic colors of the Apple Computer livery

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Post by thefounder »

recursivedoubts wrote: post #2

apple should go back to their classic logo minimalism and thinness-for-thinnness-sake has been played out: everything looks the same and is devoid of personality. People want personality back: https://x.com/HeyZaraKhan/status/2050166377269620920 Related, MB bringing back physical buttons: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47997418 Physical media is making a comeback too (including books)

I think now it would be confused with the lgb** flags

Re: Porsche will contest Laguna Seca in historic colors of the Apple Computer livery

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Post by harywilke »

chaostheory wrote: post #3

This is a strange sounding title. It sounds like Porsche was fighting against Apple’s colors in Laguna Seca, when instead they’ll be used on Porsche cars.

Out of the context of racing perhaps, but the 'in' should have made it clear. Maybe if you don't know what Laugna Seca is one might get confused. But then this press release probably isn't aimed at you.

Re: Porsche will contest Laguna Seca in historic colors of the Apple Computer livery

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Post by amelius »

snapetom wrote: post #31
amelius wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Those rainbow colors have a different connotation in popular culture. Not sure if Apple's marketing team would want to take any risks there.

Disagree. The people that buy Porches and Macs see that logo as iconic. Sexy as fuck.

Sexy in the LGBTQI+ sense, yes. There's nothing wrong with that, and sends an inclusive message which is good. However, not sure if Apple would want to go that direction.
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