Conference "Apple et le design", 30/03/2010, Paris
By Cédric Pierre-Louis on Wednesday 31 March 2010, 15:13 - Apple - Permalink
Yesterday, the "Musée de l'Informatique"* (Computers Museum), located inside the roof of the famous Grande Arche (Paris, La Défense), hosted a captivating conference about the way Apple considers design and how they manage to conceive so attractive products. The "keynote" was animated by Guillaume Gete, an Apple expert, also known as an author, trainer, independent consultant and blogger passionate by the Steve Job's company. This event was held for ending the successful exposition "les 25 ans du mac", which celebrated the Macintosh birth, 25 years ago. As Philippe NIEUWBOURG, director of the museum, said himself, this exhibition has attracted about 200 000 people in 6 months. Initially it was supposed to last 3 months...
During about one hour, Mr Gete gave us a presentation both funny and very professionnal. Some samples of very rare Apple products was introduced to the audience, and I had the chance to touch some legendary device like the Newton, for the first time. Amazing feeling. Obviously, the majority of the people which attended the conference were mac users or Apple fans; a very compelling audience as you can easily imaginate.
After the keynote, an interesting debate started about the iPad, the future of Apple and so on. Then, I had the opportunity to visit the museum with a group of very nice Apple fans who known the very begginning of Apple and could tell stories about every single computer produced by Apple since 1976. It was a great pleasure to listen their explanations and comments about the Lisa (the most expensive computer Apple ever made), the Next or the imac G4 (sunflower model).
A big thank you to all of them, and more specially to Eric who gracefully sent me the following photos.
The "Musée de l'Informatique" is
situated in the roof of the Grande Arche de La Défense, close to Paris.
Apple has impacted the IT industry and finally our lifes since 1977.
The
original Apple design team ; say hello to the founding fathers.
"Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works."
Steve Jobs
"The
backside of the iMac is more beautiful than the frontside of its competitors."
Steve Jobs
How can you hold a conference
about Apple without talking about the iPad?
When
Apple fans meet, they are quite talkative ;-)
Interesting discussion with Guillaume Gete, after the Conference.
In my left hand,
the iPhone ; in the right one, the Newton, the first PDA featured
handwriting recognition technology.
A former Apple employee
talking about the Lisa, the most expensive Apple computer (around
$21,750).
When Steve Jobs was fired
from Apple, he created a new computer company, NEXT.
One of the
first computer I ever used was an Atari 520ST, and I found it while visiting
the museum.
- The museum invites you to follow the evolution of computing since its origins till nowadays.
