Steve Jobs' Yacht Surfaces; Features His Minimalist Design
More than one year after his death, Steve Jobs' superyacht is making its first experience. Christened after "Venus", the Roman goddess of beauty, love, prosperity and victory, features an elegant design of simplicity, clean lines, smooth surfaces and plenty of glass.
The blog One More Thing was first to reveal the pictures, which were apparently taken in Aalsmeer, The Netherlands, and the site of De Vries, a division of the custom yacht builder Feadship. The yacht, designed by Philippe Starck, is apparently 240 ft long and, while we do not see much of the interior of the ship, there are seven iMac lined up next to each other on the bridge. One More Thing also mentions a sun terrace with a jacuzzi, as well as a speed boat in the back.
Each of the people who worked on the ship received an iPod Shuffle with a custom engraving as a "thank you" from the Jobs family.
The yacht also closely resembles the description we got in Water Isaacson's biography of Steve Jobs, when he referred to as a leek and minimalist design with "perfectly flat" teak decks and large cabin window panes. Venus appears to have been Jobs' final private project he wanted to finish: "I know that it’s possible I will die and leave Laurene with a half-built boat," Isaacson quoted him. "But I have to keep going on it. If I don’t, it’s an admission that I’m about to die."
Paul Allen's boat was docked not far from me and even that looked better. Also it was a typical "mine is bigger than yours" design of course.
Really? A shuffle? Couldn't have sprung for at least the nano?
He must have been feeling the economic squeeze, what with only being paid $1.00 a year and all.
I had to look at the pics about 4 times before I realized "OK I see the pier or dock its suppose to be at..where is it?"
To realize it WAS the boat.
Minimalism is one thing..'flat and wedge shaped' is another...
Paul Allen's boat was docked not far from me and even that looked better. Also it was a typical "mine is bigger than yours" design of course.
If I had his kind of money, my boat would have sharks with lasers shoot out.
Really? A shuffle? Couldn't have sprung for at least the nano?
He must have been feeling the economic squeeze, what with only being paid $1.00 a year and all.
Who says it doesn't have those hidden? He has to protect future iphone designs from james bond ...
How is this in any way hardware/tech news?
In any case, you'd think the workers would have gotten a nano at least... A shuffle is seriously miserly.
I'm sure all the engineers and builders were paid quite handsomely for building a custom yacht. The shuffle is like $40 tho, which is probably the equivalent of them working an extra half hour
the nexus 4, 10 are out. no news coverage about it on this site.
even apple apps made this news on this website
-Luke Skywalker
And no, I doubt its got it where it counts.
this ships make WWI battleships (or dreadnoughts as they're called) look like supermodels >.>