AppleInsider StaffA spokeswoman for Apple said in a statement to All Things D that the company is not working on any new products with Starck. They also declined to speculate what Starck may have been speaking about in a radio interview that gained attention earlier on Friday.
Gilles Dounes, editor in chief of French Mac site Macplus.net, suggested to AppleInsider that Starck was not speaking about a project with Apple, but rather a partnership with Apple co-founder Steve Jobs himself. Starck is said to have designed the yacht that Jobs was having built before he passed away last October.
Dounes said he saw a sketch of a yacht with a glass roof on Starck's website a few months ago. However, the image has since been removed.
Details on the yacht were revealed in Walter Isaacson's biography of Jobs released last year. Jobs himself began designing the boat, which features 40-foot-long glass walls, in 2009, though it was not completed before his death.
Dounes also explained that Starck is known in France as someone who likes to create "buzz" for his projects and generate publicity. He was described as "quite the opposite" of Apple's more secretive design chief, Jony Ive.
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That's a very kind way of saying that the man is a self-promoting publicity whore. Which he is.
Gimme a call when Apple starts working with Tony Stark
The First Rule about working on Projects with Apple ....Is, you don't talk about Projects with Apple. Tim Cook, Calling Phillippe Starck
"...Your Fired !!!" ....dial tone.
What was the exact quote from Apple's PR? If Apple was working with Starck then the comment "is not working on any new products with Starck." would be the truth albeit not the whole truth.
If somebody actually was working on some sort of revolutionary project with Apple, I doubt that they'd be so stupid as to actually mention anything about that in interviews which they give, like some douchebag French designer with a big mouth that I'd never heard of before and couldn't care less about.