How Steve Jobs and the industrial design team saved Apple, this week on The CultCast

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Together, they would rebuild Apple.
Together, they would rebuild Apple.
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This week on The CultCast: We recall how Steve Jobs and the industrial design team brought Apple back from the brink. Plus: The reason Jony Ive gave up his car for a chauffeur; one year with the Apple Watch; and we reveal the strange cultural phenomena we’ve been secretly loving in an all-new What We’re Into.

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This week’s links

Intro – Steve Jobs intros the iMac DV

Is this the Apple Car????

Why the departure of Apple designer Daniel Coster matters

A year after its launch, it’s now clear that pretty much no one needs an Apple Watch

Apple Watch shipments predicted to fall 25 percent this year

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Gerber Curve (Leander)

Spyderco Paramilitary 2 (Erfon)

Kershaw Leek Knife (Erfon)

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