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Not surprisingly, dark circles form around the blobs, and the screen quickly changes colors before going blank. In fact, it kind of looks like they form a creepy face on the phone, like something out of a horror film. The Internet star’s previous stunts include boiling one of the devices in [Coca-Cola](http://time.com/3644023/man-boils-iphone6-in-coca-cola/) and baking it inside [a turkey](http://time.com/3644023/man-boils-iphone6-in-coca-cola/). ### See the World Await and Celebrate Apple's iPhone 6  People pass time as they wait outside an Apple store for the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus in London on Sept. 17, 2014. Lefteris Pitarakis—AP  People wait in line in front of the Apple Store in Tokyo on Sept. 18, 2014. Yuya Shino—Reuters  A man sleeps in a tent in the queue outside an Apple store in London on Sept. 18, 2014. Justin Tallis—AFP/Getty Images  A man wearing a replica of an iPhone 6 Plus model on his head yawns while waiting in front of an Apple Store in Tokyo on Sept. 19, 2014. Yuya Shino—Reuters  A woman sleeps in a chair as she waits in queue outside the Apple store in London on Sept. 18, 2014. Justin Tallis—AFP/Getty Images  A staff member removes a display poster of iPhone 5S at an Apple store in Tokyo on Sept. 18, 2014,. Yuya Shino—Reuters  Customers queue outside an Apple store in Hong Kong on Sept. 19, 2014. Xaume Ollerose—AFP/Getty Images  Ken Miyauchi Vice President of Softbank, Japanese mobile phone company and actress Sayaka Kanda, in a pink dress, react during a ceremony to mark the first day of sales of the latest iPhone 6 and 6 Plus at a store in Tokyo on Sept. 19, 2014. Shizuo Kambayashi—AP  After being first in line for 19 days, Moon Ray, from Jackson, Miss. runs the gauntlet of Apple store workers as she enters the Fifth Avenue Apple store in New York on Sept. 19, 2014. Peter Foley—EPA  Apple store staff high five customers as they enter an store in Tokyo on Sept. 19, 2014. Chris McGrath—Getty Images  A man wearing a mask depicting Apple's co-founder Steve Jobs holds up a cardboard cut-out of Apple's new iPhone 6, as he walks into an Apple Store in Tokyo on Sept. 18, 2014. Yuya Shino—Reuters  Andreas Gibson celebrates as he exits an Apple store in New York after being the first to purchase an iPhone 6 Plus on Sept. 19, 2014. Julie Jacobson—AP  Jamael Ahmed jumps in the air as he leaves the store after being the first to purchase the iPhone 6 at Apple Covent Gardens in London on Sept. 19, 2014. Ben A. Pruchnie—Getty Images _Read next:_ [_The 5 Best iPhone Games to Play This Week_](http://time.com/3700787/iphone-games-evoland/?xid=time%5Freadnext) [_Listen to the most important stories of the day._](http://time.com/newsletter/the-brief/?sl%5Fautoplay=true&xid=spl-fullbrief-article) ## Transcript Jonathan Ive is Apple's design chief, but he's been much more than that. He was Steve Jobs's spiritual partner at Apple, the man who helped him turn that company around from certain doom to the most successful company in the history of capitalism arguably. Ive designed many of Apple's iconic products, from the first iMac to the iPod, the iPhone, iPad. But this shy Brit has also helped change the world in ways people don't really realize. [ MUSIC ] He mainstreamed new materials starting with the iMac in the late 90s, which had translucent, colorful plastics and became huge trend in product design. At the time, Steve Jobs said it was a computer so good you wanted to lick it. And every few years, he would begin experimenting with new types of materials, and those materials make their way into Apple products, and then they get copied and end up in all sorts of places. He made design a nonnegotiable; he help turn the idea of design into a core principle of doing business. If you look at the iPod, I think that's the essential product, where the company's history started to turn, and its story about design started to really become believable. [ MUSIC ] Companies now thing about design the way they used to think about cost and profit margin. And a large part of that is due to Ive and, and Apple. [ MUSIC ] He transformed what people think a computer is with the iPhone and iPad in particular, which have enormous amounts of computing power that you can have with you in bed or on the subway or on the street. The computer has ceased to be this object that you use on your desk and has become something that's a part of our lives all the time. He streamlined how you use software. In recent years, Ive went from being responsible for just Apple's physical products, but also the way its software looks and feels. He's a huge proponent of what's called flat design. Apple's mobile operating system, iOS7 is the latest example of this flat design trend. In which objects don't look like their real work counterparts but are simpler and more intuitive. The things look the way they function rather than mimicking the real world. And more simply, Ive helped make the world around you easier to live in. His focus and Apple's focus on simplicity, on taking away the things you don't need and only leaving you with the absolute most basic and necessary objects to interact with has impacted products ranging from smart thermostats to vacuum cleaners, toothbrushes, anything you can think of. There are industrial designers out there thinking, what would Jonathan Ive do? And trying to put those ideals into practice. As Apple became the most successful company in the history of capitalism, people started to copy it. 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