Inside Apple Design Guru Jonathan Ive’s New Gold Coast Home

Jonathon Ive, the Apple industrial design whiz responsible for the iconic look of blockbuster products such as the iPod, iPhone, and iPad, has purchased a home on San Francisco’s uber-exclusive Gold Coast, according to the WSJ.

[ad#Google Adsense u tekstu]The recently knighted Brit reportedly bought the home for 17 million of the Scrooge McDuck-sized pile of dollars he has no doubt accumulated during his tenure in Cupertino, an epoch in which he and Steve Jobs literally transformed the way people interact with technology.

$17 million is a lot of money, but don’t worry about Mr. Ive – or any other Apple stock-holder – running into financial problems anytime soon. The company is set to rack up enough iPhone 5 sales to raise the GDP of these United States of America by roughly half of a percent. Now, half a percent may not sound like much, but in an economy the size of the U.S. that fraction equals approximately $3.2 billion.

Which is a lot.

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Sir Jonathan Paul “Jony” Ive, KBE (born February 1967) is a British designer and the senior vice president of industrial design at Apple Inc. He is the lead designer and conceptual mind behind many of Apple’s products, including the MacBook Pro, iMac, MacBook Air, iPod, iPod touch, iPhone, and iPad.