Exclusive: French firm to design a 246 foot yacht for Jobs
Apple's CEO, Steve Jobs has placed an order to a French design firm for a 246 feet (75 meters) long yacht, sources we're unable to name told MacScoop.
Philippe Starck, the very famous French designer will have the honour and the challenging task to provide his design skills for Jobs' ambitious project.
Sources have even provided some details on the design of the yacht. They specifically mentioned there will be a swimming pool and two big matress on the front side of it.
No word on how much this project will cost to Apple's very charismatic CEO but sources told us the design of the yacht is handled by one of "the most expensive design firms out there." No word either on which company was chosen to build the yacht.
In that move, Jobs joins the club of the IT industry's billionaires who have built they're own yacht. Among them, the two co-founders of Microsoft, Paul Allen and Bill Gates whose net worth are respectively about $16 billion and $50 billion. The first has a 413 feet yacht called Octopus (was the biggest at the time it was built) while Bill Gates was rumoured to have ordered a new yacht last year. We may also note Larry Ellisson's 452 feet long yacht named Rising Sun.
Most of Jobs personal fortune was built during the past five years thanks to stock option grants from Apple's board and more than doubled to nearly $5 billion when he sold Pixar to Disney last year.
Sounds positively revolting!
Sounds positively revolting! Sounds like it's going to be a gin palace rather than a yacht. French yachts are well known for poor build quality at the moment (slightly ironic as they had the best boatyards during the Napoleonic wars, whilst Britain's were very bad, now Britain has some of the best yacht builders). I would much rather have one of the new Oyster super yachts!
Notice we know who designs
Notice we know who designs it but not who builds it.
No word on how much this
No word on how much this project will cost to Apple's very charismatic CEO but sources told us the design of the yacht is handled by one of "the most expensive design firms out there."
length x 1.000.000 = €75.000.000?
maurits
maurits
After all, didn't the jet
After all, didn't the jet cost 90 million?
This boat fits you better-
This boat fits you better- it's black in color, like your fav clothes.
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Cannot be! Steve Jobs would
Cannot be! Steve Jobs would know that Philippe Starck is the worst designer in the world -- an over-hyped stylist at best. I suppose that somebody who is used to work with Jonathan Ive wouldn't even let his toilet seat design by Starck -- you couldn't sit on it comfortably.
He's going to name it
He's going to name it Surfin' Safari and paint it green to appease the environmentalists.
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Sounds like it'll be a nice
Sounds like it'll be a nice yacht, last year I took a mediterranean cruise and once back in port my friends and I went and chartered a yacht so we could go back out on our own which was a pretty fun time.
Sounds like it'll be a nice
Sounds like it'll be a nice yacht, last year I took a mediterranean cruise and once back in port my friends and I went and chartered a yacht so we could go back out on our own which was a pretty fun time.