[jdrc]

Car design is much more interesting than the wholly homogeneous world of mobile and computing. Hasn't anyone come up with a nice idea for 15 years?

[rpmisms]

Franz Von Holzhausen has been doing great work over at Tesla, albeit as Elon's editor, rather than the inverse Ive/Jobs relationship.

Elon: let's make a truck out of folded steel.

Franz: OK, I'll make it look decent.

As opposed to Apple, where it was more like

Jobs: let's make a nice laptop.

Ive: OK here's a block of aluminum

Jobs: bro, it needs a screen

Ive: Fine I guess the users aren't evolved enough yet.