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Team members work twelve hours a day and can’t discuss work with friends. Each project has a lead designer, but almost everyone contributes to every project, and shares the credit. (Who had this or that idea? “The team.”) Ive describes his role as lying between two extremes of design leadership: he is not the source of all creativity, nor does he merely assess the proposals of colleagues. The big ideas are often his, and he has an opinion about every detail. Team meetings are held in the kitchen two or three times a week, and Ive encourages candor. “We put the product ahead of anything else,” he said. “Let’s say we’re talking about something that I’ve done that’s ugly and ill-proportioned—because, believe you me, I can pull some beauties out of the old hat. . . . It’s fine, and we all do, and sometimes we do it repeatedly, and we have these seasons of doing it—”

During my review run, the fully-juiced Honor 8C easily lasted me up to two days at a time. The daily usage involved an hour or so of video streaming, a couple of voice calls, some music playback, and constant incoming notifications from a bunch of apps, all with automatic brightness and Wi-Fi/Cellular data always turned on. The bundled charger can top-up a completely-drained battery in about two and a half hours, which is alright, given that there’s no fast-charging support.

“What we’re doing for customers is making the exterior of their garage match their homes, especially if the garage is attached.

The all-new Range Rover Velar is both instantly recognizable as a Range Rover and radical in its interpretation of the brand’s DNA. The mid-size luxury SUV is defined by a formal, powerful size that is beautifully balanced by perfectly optimized proportions. The large wheels – up to 22-inches in diameter – help to define the stunning silhouette while further enhancing the vehicle’s dramatic presence.

I also just wasn’t a fan of not having any real protection on my $900 phone. Sure, the Toast cover is thicker and more protective than a vinyl skin, but still significantly less so than an actual case. While a vinyl skin can still somewhat fit underneath a case as long as it’s not too tight, the same can’t be said for this wood skin. Since I had more cases to review, I had to take the Toast cover off.

Jobs visited the design studio and, as Ive recalled it, said, “Fuck, you’ve not been very effective, have you?” This was a partial compliment. Jobs could see that the studio’s work had value, even if Ive could be faulted for not communicating its worth to the company. During the visit, Ive said, Jobs “became more and more confident, and got really excited about our ability to work together.” That day, according to Ive, they started collaborating on what became the iMac. Soon afterward, Apple launched its “Think Different” campaign, and Ive took it as a reminder of the importance of “not being apologetic, not defining a way of being in response to what Dell just did.” He went on, “My intuition’s good, but my ability to articulate what I feel was not very good—and remains not very good, frustratingly. And that’s what’s hard, with Steve not being here now.” (At Jobs’s memorial, Ive called him “my closest and my most loyal friend.”)

One morning at Apple’s headquarters, a few weeks earlier, Ive recalled how, in 1997, the company seemed to be dying around him. “Every story you’d read, every morning before coming to work, started with the phrase ‘The beleaguered computer maker, Apple,’ ” he said. Ive was then thirty; after five years at the company, he had become its head of industrial design. “There was a Wired cover that had a big Apple logo with a crown of barbed wire, as thorns, and underneath it just said, ‘PRAY.’ I remember this because of how upsetting it was. Basically saying: either it’s going to just go out of business or be bought.”

Finally, the usual qualifier: battery life is as relative as gas mileage in a car, or more so. Putting full, continuous load on the system will draw down battery power much more quickly.

The case’s finish has a soft-touch feel to it, which makes it feel great in the hand, but it does collect fingerprints very easily. When it’s clean, the case looks great, but it dirties in virtually no time. Touch it, and you’ll see an oily mark, even if your hands are clean. It’s a little irritating, and you’ll probably find yourself wiping your case on your shirt a lot more. But the main reason I love this case is the little insert for a magnet it has inside the back. Buy one of Spigen’s car mount kits (other manufacturers’ should work too), stick the magnet in the back and then mount on an air vent in your car, and you’ll be able to just place your phone and drive. I don’t know why more of Spigen cases don’t have this, because they really should. It’s just so convenient if you don’t have a car with a multimedia system or Android Auto.

Meyers wanted to turn the carriage house into a tap house for his burgeoning hard cider company, so he took the appearance of the New Jersey applewood—which a friend of a family member just happened to have—as a sign.

Nolan was one of the first helmet manufacturers to use Lexan, having started with the material in 1972, so they have a great deal of experience in polycarbonate helmet manufacturing.

“It’s been kind of a community project also with a lot of help from friends and neighbors and stuff like that,” Darwin said. “They supported Leighton all the way through high school, and they’re still supporting him now.”