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What is Jony Ive doing?
He worked at the tech giant for nearly 30 years before departing in 2019 to kick-start his own design company, LoveFrom, with his fellow designer Marc Newson, who Ive brought to Apple in 2014. Now, LoveFrom has its own website. The site is minimalist and welcomes visitors with a blank white page and a typing bar.
Who is leaving Apple?
Jony Ive was Apple’s chief design officer and led the company’s design for devices such as the iPhone, iPad, and iPod. He worked at the tech giant for nearly 30 years before departing in 2019 to kick-start his own design company, LoveFrom, with his fellow designer Marc Newson, who Ive brought to Apple in 2014.
Did Tim Cook leave Apple?
On August 24th, 2011 — ten years ago today — Apple co-founder Steve Jobs resigned as CEO, leaving the world’s newly minted most valuable brand in the hands of his successor Tim Cook. Just six weeks later, Jobs died.
How do you feel about Jony Ive and Apple?
As someone who started out in the business as a designer, Jony Ive and his relationship with Apple was just everything I looked up to and aspired to be. On the other hand, though, as someone no longer in design, Jony Ive set free but still connected to Apple is something I really, deeply feel.
Who is Jony Ive and why is he so important?
“Jony is a singular figure in the design world and his role in Apple’s revival cannot be overstated, from 1998’s groundbreaking iMac to the iPhone and the unprecedented ambition of Apple Park, where recently he has been putting so much of his energy and care,” That’s according to Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO.
Is the best of Jony Ive still to come?
So the best of Jony Ive, the best of Apple, is still to come, I pressed. “I hope so,” he replied. Ive may have looked forward to a remarkable number of revolutionary products but, in reality, apart from the Watch, what followed was a stream of iterative redesigns and improvements, both big and small, to existing products.
What did Steve Jobs actually do for Apple?
He’s a big part of the reason almost all phones are now singular slabs, why every laptop for a long time was as wedged as air, and why it was so hard for so long to tell any other tablet apart from the iPad. He was the design lead not just for Apple but for the industry. But he’s also a designer.