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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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Here's Porsche really at its best, on the Nurburgring's Nordschleiffe in 2018, which is arguably the most complicated and diverse track on the planet doing a cool 5m19s (in 2024 a Mercedes AMG GT One was a full 1min10s slower, for example):

https://youtu.be/PQmSUHhP3ug

Any car lover who doesn't know that vid can safely watch it.

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

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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)

> People want personality back:

It's more like people under 30 are nostalgic for an era they never experienced, mostly never even actually existed, and that they can only experience through mindless consumption of plastic gadgets and retro inspired pop culture.

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

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

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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.

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/05/apple-introduces-the-...

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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.

Especially the ones you could rotate.

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

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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)

> People want personality back: It's more like people under 30 are nostalgic for an era they never experienced, mostly never even actually existed, and that they can only experience through mindless consumption of plastic gadgets and retro inspired pop culture.

> It's more like people under 30 are nostalgic for an era they never experienced, mostly never even actually existed, and that they can only experience through mindless consumption of plastic gadgets and retro inspired pop culture.

So what you're saying is they are no different than any other relatively modern generation?

eg. Apple's 1990s ascension built on the back of Dieter Rams nostalgia.

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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.

> I walked past a parking lot yesterday and everything was in black, white and silver.

Everything else is artificially expensive. This says nothing about customers except that they're price sensitive.

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

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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.

There was no shortage of bright white plastic in late 80s-early 90s Apple products. //c, Unidisk 3.5, and the like. It all looked fine.
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