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Apple's new VP of Product design is Segway's CTO

engadget.com — Doug Field, Chief Technology Officer at Segway, heading to Apple as VP of product design. What makes the move so interesting is Jobs' memorable comment on Field's Segway design, "I think it sucks!"

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Who Dugg It?

ttsupra26, on 07/07/2008, -13/+11"Time to sell my Apple stock...

wait, just kidding, I can't afford Apple stock"
- Badandy127, on 07/07/2008, -15/+1Stolen from an engadget comment. Dugg down. Bitch.
  - ZimbuTheMonkey, on 07/07/2008, -1/+12Notice the quotation marks?
    Dugg down. Bitch.
  - Badandy127, on 07/07/2008, -6/+1Notice no reference to the original poster?
    
    Dugg down. Bitch.
  - ZimbuTheMonkey, on 07/07/2008, -1/+3I like your style.
    
    Dugg up. Bitch.
- faizal5k, on 07/07/2008, -4/+1But if you're going to sell them, that means you already bought them didn't you? Unless you think you know something bad is going to happen and you're going to risk short selling.
Justin125, on 07/07/2008, -7/+2Think?
- Dylson, on 07/07/2008, -0/+1I didn't think apple had VP's. I thought Steve Jobs did it all.
Infectedbull, on 07/07/2008, -7/+1I'm not too worried.
llsethj, on 07/07/2008, -10/+30Story stolen without creds from
http://9to5mac.com/segway-apple

which was dugg http://digg.com/apple/Apple_to_start_making_people ...
hours before story went live on Engadget.

Great work engadget. You even stole the HBS article linked!
- nedzalife, on 07/07/2008, -5/+9"Nevertheless, word coming out of the SegwayChat forums has Doug Field, Chief Technology Officer at Segway, heading to Apple as VP of product design."
  
  Engadet referenced the SegwayChat forums as the source of their news. RTFA before accusing them of bad journalism.
  - noahhoward, on 07/07/2008, -1/+2What Engadget does is not journalism it is reposting information that journalists have already put together.
  - 5hocker, on 07/07/2008, -0/+2I agree with the original Poster. AOLEngadget stole this story, didn't link to it and even used their back story links! Pretty obvious. Guess AOL is cracking the whip!
- brundlefly76, on 07/07/2008, -0/+1I don't think there is anything as obnoxious as Job's reviewing the design of a product he didn't invent, in a field he doesn't even work in, and saying 'it sucks'.
earnjam, on 07/07/2008, -6/+3So...how long before I can I get my hands on the new Segway iPod dock?
timusca, on 07/07/2008, -2/+30That is the worst preview image I have ever seen. Wow.
jmp478, on 07/07/2008, -0/+7Way to link to the comments, there...
serif69, on 07/07/2008, -0/+4This means that Woz can't be far behind. Wearing a bicycle helmet.
riseabove, on 07/07/2008, -4/+10***** thing sucks!
- Dylson, on 07/07/2008, -0/+1THERES NO ART THERE!
NathanCH, on 07/07/2008, -1/+6Jonathan Ives...
- jeffchuck, on 07/07/2008, -0/+1Yeah, where's he going?
Chirp08, on 07/07/2008, -2/+3As if it matters? As long as Jobs is around nothing ugly or horribly designed will ever see the light of day, this is just the guy that is going to catch a lot of ***** when the design team ***** up.
- Tezdoll, on 07/07/2008, -1/+1HaHa! Whats your excuse for the i-mac? your comment fails!
  - MacParrot, on 07/07/2008, -0/+2The iMac is an all-in-one computer that since its debut over 10 years ago is one of the factors that many believe has led to Apple's resurgence. It's had three major design changes, each change usually due to a new processor (with the notable exception of when Apple started using Intel) with smaller less significant changes as the machine has matured.
    
    Compare it to other all-in-one designs from other companies and it has held up pretty well. Irrational hate on it all you want, Apple has sold millions of them.
    
    Having said all that, I'd still leave it in the dust for a Core2Duo OS X tower from Apple with some expansion options (like more internal storage).
DjOverEZ, on 07/07/2008, -4/+14I lost my testicles in a house fire in 1992.
- Ilyanep, on 07/07/2008, -1/+5WTF. Is this a reference to something I've never heard of?
  - toetagger, on 07/07/2008, -1/+10They're things some men have under their dick.
  - MacParrot, on 07/07/2008, -1/+5"They're things some men have under their dick."
    
    Some men have house fires under their dicks? Whatever floats your boat I guess
- tcpip4lyfe, on 07/07/2008, -2/+3I love lamp.
- Dujenwook, on 07/07/2008, -1/+3I've got them over here at the office. They are a bit charred, but I believe still functional. Send a small SASE to:
  
  Apple Computer, Inc.
  1 Infinite Loop
  Cupertino, CA 95014
  
  and I'll have them mailed to you whenever I get around to it. Thanks.
Barackalypse, on 07/07/2008, -2/+3In other news, Stevie Wonder will be hired on to coordinate colors on all new Apple products.
- MacParrot, on 07/07/2008, -1/+2Any color you want as long as it's...
  
  Wait, is this Apple or Ford?
- gn0stik, on 07/07/2008, -0/+1Seriously, a bean counter in product design?
  
  Odd choice. What are his quals? His wife makes him watch "What not to wear" a little too often?
Dylson, on 07/07/2008, -2/+1Oh the irony.
Seidoger, on 07/07/2008, -0/+1Even if Jobs said "i think it sucks" maybe he also thought "Oh i think it is well designed!"
Who knows, haha.
robbob, on 07/07/2008, -2/+2^No, Steve Jobs is just a douche
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