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I don’t think I’ve ever heard anyone accuse anything Apple made of being garish.

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The "touch bar" was garish. So were the G3 iMacs if you remember back that far.

They're just a company. They have good designers but they make mistakes like anyone else.

Behold, the Blue Dalmatian and Flower Power iMacs!

https://www.cultofmac.com/468313/flower-power-blue-dalmatian...

Well .. you should see the quadrillions of grey sharp cornered boxes those beautific gumdrops put to shame!

They only have like 2% of the PC/laptop market, so not many people think they're that attractive. I like my M1 MacBook itself, but hate the aluminum chassis. I find it brutally garish, sharp and uncomfortable (hurts to type on, hurts my wrists where they rest on a sharp edge, so it's basically a desktop with an attached keyboard and mouse)

It's fine that you don't like it, but it's not garish. That's just not what the word means. MacBooks are literally the opposite of that:

adjective

gar· ish | \ ˈger-ish \

Definition

1 : clothed in vivid colors

//a garish clown

2 a : excessively or disturbingly vivid

//garish colors

//garish imagery

b : offensively or distressingly bright : GLARING

3 : tastelessly showy : FLASHY

//garish neon signs

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/garish

Apologies then, I understood it to mean tasteless, not necesarrily bright or colorful.

Admitting when you’re wrong is tough. Here’s an upvote.

so not many people think they're that attractive

Do most people buy a laptop based mainly on appearance? I always thought that most people buy a Windows laptop because that's what they need for work/school (or what they are most familiar with from work/school).

Many of my friends think most windows laptops look garish

Windows 11 is pretty terrible. So much bad design, I wonder how they do it.

> I don’t think I’ve ever heard anyone accuse anything Apple made of being garish.

Not that I disagree in general, but the Apple Watch Edition is arguably in that zone.

Most recently, he was seen wearing a solid 18k yellow gold Apple Watch on a special gold bracelet that was never made available to the public (the same one that Beyoncé and other celebrities were also rocking). The best part though? He appears to have never actually set the thing up, instead going Andy Warhol–style, wearing it purely as a piece of jewelry.

https://www.hodinkee.com/articles/karl-lagerfeld-audemars-pi...

I wouldn’t consider something that was never made available to the public a product, nor what looks like a simple gold bracelet particularly garish.

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