I think Jony is even more pretentious than Steve. Isn't he the one that used red anodized aluminum to make a Mac Pro for a charity and then acted as if he "designed" a special version?
I agree. Jobs got away with his act because he more or less invented it. Jony is acting the act. From what I've seen, I find him really off-putting.
Once tasted wine at a place where the host was too slick, too smooth, too rehearsed. I had to walk out and leave our group with it. He reminds me of that.
I think you have a lot of animus for someone who is basically making up a story about someone else "acting like" something, from whole cloth. What do you know about what Ive "acted like" precisely?
Jony is an industrial designer by trade and heart. So "design" for him and everyone else doesn't just mean how it looks but how it is made.
I don't know about the process for making the Mac Pro red but given how much time Apple spends on material engineering I would assume it is non trivial.
If the Mac Pro was the first object ever made with red anodized aluminum, I'd agree that it was probably a non-trivial process. That's clearly not the case here.
Another perspective would be that by having Ive hype the design for the red Mac Pro, it's value was increased and so too was its contribution to the charity in question. Love him or loathe him, Ive is the preeminent celebrity industrial designer.
That person didn't give a million dollars to charity because he actually thought that a red Mac Pro was worth a million dollars, he gave a million dollars to charity because he was an incredibly nice person.
