Ian Waring

Simplicity Sells
Jonathan Ive’s glowing Apple on the back of Jane’s MacBook Air. If you suggest replacing her MacBook or iPhone 4 with any other supposed equivalents, you get a look somewhere between indignance and a death wish. Meanwhile, her husband is waiting to trade up to an iPad 3, and so start another round of hand-me-downs to the so far unsmitten. There appears little shortage of willing victims.

To the more observant, yes, those are Ugg slippers, her other main Xmas present from yours truely. She’s just discovered there’s an Ugg Store on Newbury Street in Boston, so I’ll start guessing the next holiday destination.

Jonathan Ive’s glowing Apple on the back of Jane’s MacBook Air. If you suggest replacing her MacBook or iPhone 4 with any other supposed equivalents, you get a look somewhere between indignance and a death wish. Meanwhile, her husband is waiting to trade up to an iPad 3, and so start another round of hand-me-downs to the so far unsmitten. There appears little shortage of willing victims.

To the more observant, yes, those are Ugg slippers, her other main Xmas present from yours truely. She’s just discovered there’s an Ugg Store on Newbury Street in Boston, so I’ll start guessing the next holiday destination.