BMW designer: Apple affected the popular color of cars: Usually only found in luxury cars because of its high maintenance, white is now the most popular exterior car color in America. It recently unseated silver, which has held that title for over a decade. (Via TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog) Never underestimate the power of Jony Ive. The man who turned computers from beige and black to fruity colors, then when the entire world copied that, turned around and made everything white. Now that white is so popular, I wonder…

Familiar is not a design: Quasar was not designed, but rather only implemented. It’s the classic outcome of closed, engineer-based thinking. (Via Matt Legend Gemmell) Matt Gemmell sums up my thoughts on Quasar perfectly. The iPad doesn’t present multiple apps on screen at once for a reason, and that reason isn’t because of some hardware limitation, or because Apple wanted to “dumb it down” for users. It wasn’t an arbitrary decision. Apple designed the iPad that way, and I believe it’s a better device for…