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Comment by danielhooper | Hacker News Reader

Everything under the Porsche Design moniker is ugly as shit. A quick google image search of `porsche design` reaffirms this. Even their most plain and simple external drive designs are (at least to myself) tacky looking. I don't mean to be inflammatory about it but I can't be the only one to think this is ugly?

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No you're not wrong, they are the "Pierre Cardin"[1] of tech products, essentially slapping their "P O R S C H E" typeface on anything half decent and shinny to win some licensing bucks.

Bang & Olufsen[2] they are not, but they like to position themselves in the market as if they were.

[1] http://www.highsnobiety.com/2015/11/23/digging-deeper-pierre... [2] https://www.bang-olufsen.com/en

Even B&O made a couple atrocious UI mistakes. I remember one, the Beosound 5, that completely failed when you had hundreds or thousands of audio tracks accessible bringing up endless lists of things to finger-drag through. Of course, it's not an easy UI problem to solve, but that thing should have never appear in a store that way.

Of course, most of the time they get it right.

There was a reddit post a few days ago about how crazy it was that the original Porsche design was heavily reject by some company the guy worked for. I couldn't help but express the same opinion as you, I think I even used the same phrase. I guess there's something to be said for being able to inducing extreme opinions on both sides.

Not entirely true. I'm certain sneaker heads are going crazy over these http://sneakernews.com/2017/03/01/porsche-adidas-black-ultra...

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