HP’s Vice President of Industrial Design Stacy Wolff discussed his company’s current design philosophy in Shanghai today and claimed its laptop styles were developed by research centers across 11 different cities. Despite his anecdotes, Engadget said one journalist asked Wolff if he feared being sued, because the new Envy Spectre XT looks strikingly like Apple’s MacBook Air.
The V.P. simply replied:
Oh, but it does not end there: Wolff even addressed fanboys’ reaction to HP’s Apple-esque design approach:
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