Ive and Newson have collaborated on several other one-off items and customizations like a Leica camera, Gold Apple EarPods and a Neal Feay-fabricatedesksk.
Excluding one-off items year-on-year quarterly profit was down from $73m to $66m.
But about two-thirds of the adjustment is coming from revenue increases and one-off items, which depend on overly optimistic assumptions about growth and tax collection from the informal economy.
Pre-tax profit for the third quarter reached £2.4bn – but stripping out a gain on the value of its own debt and other one-off items, profit was £1.3bn, up 5% on a year ago.
On an underlying basis, which excludes one-off items such as the PPI provisions, Lloyds' profit more than quadrupled from a year ago to £2.6bn.
The group's bottom line was weighed down by one-off items including an £11.2m write-down on the value of under-performing pubs.
On a statutory basis – including accounting quirks and other one-off items – the profits were higher, at £2.9bn.
On a current-cost-of-supplies basis, free of one-off items, Shell's earnings came in at $4.2 billion, slightly higher than the $4.1 billion expected by analysts.
Revenue was affected by two one-off items of note, a 215 million euro write-down on the bank's own debt and a gain of 364 million euros as a result of its adoption of new accounting rules.
Stripping out the Deepwater Horizon costs and other one-off items, BP said that underlying replacement cost-profit fell 64% year-on-year in the second quarter to $1.3bn.
Easy customization of so many products is possible because technological advances on the Web and in digital printing have made it possible to create one-off items for much less money than it used to take.
