Ferrari Luce, New Golf Cart Reflect Apple Design Aesthetic
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Jony Ive and Marc Newson bringing Apple-era design language into vehicles underscores how UX expectations are converging across phones, cars, and even golf carts. If you ship physical products, assume your customer’s benchmark is now consumer electronics polish — not your direct category peers.
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