Another Apple Designer Joins Jony Ive to Work on Hardware for OpenAI

[Rogifan]

Time for some new blood at Apple. Good luck and good bye, Jony and your minions. Apple will be just fine, despite the internet's commentariat, who have been predicting your imminent demise for three decades now. The same people who were trashing Ive and his team when they were with Apple are now mourning their exit. <YAWN>

This person didn’t work for Jony Ive. He was part of hardware engineering. My guess is this guy did quite well at Apple and is just looking to do something new/different. The way Bloomberg reports on this is kinda ridiculous. People come and go from companies all the time. Unless it’s someone in the c-suite it really shouldn’t be news. But Bloomberg knows anything with Apple in the headlines will generate clicks so…

 

[Eldaerenth Faexidor]

Well at least the terminators will look good whilst having 1st gen design flaws, terrible signal and be obsolete within 9 months

Yes and very slim looking 😍.. because Jony 😏

 

[klasma]

It’s definitely going to be a humanoid robot to compete with Boston Dynamics and Tesla.

I don’t think that OpenAI has been doing anything with robotics. That’s a whole different field and expertise.

 

[Eldaerenth Faexidor]

Wonder how toxic the work environment is at Apple.. 🥴

 

[cutlub]

Heating up! The New York Times is suing OpenAi for copyright infringement .

 

[ab2c4]

If this person was at all responsible for the flat sides we have on recent iPhones then I say good riddance.

 

[Flash1420]

I wish Tim left the company. Always focused on costs and less on product design.

 

[JMO1]

I bet 99% that the project will be some form of robotics based on ChatGPT.

Or would it just end up being the humane.ai pin haha

 

[citysnaps]

Holy Smokes! Another day, another tech person leaves a large Silicon Valley company to join another tech company. Along with many dozens of others in the Bay Area that employs around 400K tech workers.

Shocked! Totally. Definitely an event to get frothed up about.

Clutch your pearls, Apple is doomed. Again, and again, and again.

 

[blodyholy]

I'm not sure I would pay for this service. It's a pretty steep price, even for some great color options. But I do appreciate MR giveaways

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That’s a really good question. The way I see it, from reading some of Ives' interviews, Lovefrom is about ideas and looking at how people interact with them. It doesn’t have to be a specific hardware product, even though thats what Ive did at Apple.

I found this an interesting read. He talks more about the process of ideas rather than any product or design.Ive brings the company to the table rather than design POV.

‘The creative process is fabulously unpredictable. A great idea cannot be predicted’

In this interview, Jony Ive, the former design head of Apple, discusses what it takes for organizations to allow creativity to grow and thrive.

www.mckinsey.com

Edit: amd I stand corrected. See Klasmas post below.

Jony Ive and OpenAI want to create the ‘iPhone’ of AI

Not that they’ve settled on what that actually means yet.

www.theverge.com

Thank you both for responding; interesting read. Although, an AI-centric phone seems a bit niche. Sort of like those ‘gamer’ or crypto devices. 🤷

Edit: Apologies to ronntaylor; I didn’t mean to include you in my reply.

 

[richinaus]

Genuine question: what product of significance has LoveFrom created?

Ive isn't running a standard design company and doesn't appear to have any requirements to market himself, which isn't really a surprise.
But he has been doing some consulting with AirBNB.

From what I have read he only does projects he is passionate about - like this....

Jony Ive’s LoveFrom worked on this limited edition $60,000 turntable

Featuring an Ive-approved button and hinges.

www.theverge.com

 

[richinaus]

This person didn’t work for Jony Ive. He was part of hardware engineering. My guess is this guy did quite well at Apple and is just looking to do something new/different. The way Bloomberg reports on this is kinda ridiculous. People come and go from companies all the time. Unless it’s someone in the c-suite it really shouldn’t be news. But Bloomberg knows anything with Apple in the headlines will generate clicks so…

haha - in my experience most of the time a bunch of narcissistic game players are the C suite..... with the odd amazing individual who makes the difference.

 

[delsoul]

I have a Pentax K-01, which was designed by Marc Newson. It’s a polarizing industrial design that one either really loves or really despises, no in between. I personally find it unique and gorgeous in design. Wonder if Marc will apply his same style to these products

 

[Fowl]

"Design a UI as good as Jony Ive's."

"Sure! ▢○△▽◐."

 

[Kierkegaarden]

Jony Ive started at Apple in 1992. It took the strong personality in Steve Jobs to bring out the creative best in him. How much of that did he lose when Jobs died? Does this team have a figure that pushes back and stretches them?

 

[XboxEvolved]

Jony Ive started at Apple in 1992. It took the strong personality in Steve Jobs to bring out the creative best in him. How much of that did he lose when Jobs died? Does this team have a figure that pushes back and stretches them?

No a lot of what Apple was like back then was not what Ive was expecting and by that, it had been a concentration on profits and making stuff as cheaply as possible with no regard of quality. There were hints of Ive's genius before Jobs came back such as the eMate, the Mac AIO (which was like a giant precursor to the original iMac), and the over-engineered visually interesting 20th Anniversary Mac.

Ive felt because operations began to have more of a role, and Ive himself was getting more of a management role, something he didn't much care for, that he had done all he could for Apple and had little to contribute. Apple is completely fine though so I wouldn't worry to much about it, it will just lose a little of the magic.

 

[dypeterc]

Well at least the terminators will look good whilst having 1st gen design flaws, terrible signal and be obsolete within 9 months

You'll have to flip them over in order to recharge them

 

[dypeterc]

Why don't they just have ChatGPT or one of these AI image generators design itself?

 

[nylonsteel]

yet more millionaire designers in the making

 

[picpicmac]

The New York Times is suing OpenAi for copyright infringement

This will be the story many will follow closely. OpenAi may be in for a world of hurt. And that will be true in many nations, as OA could find itself fighting lawsuits around the world.

 

[Mrkevinfinnerty]

Announcement video is coming along nicely ...

 

[ccsicecoke]

Don't care don't give a f for Jony Ive who ruined Aqua UI.

All I want to know is how many reporting to Scott Forstall still remains

 

[FernMam]

They’re making an in ear piece for chat gtp from the film Her.

I think this is the best bet so far. The new user interface will be a language/audio/emotion one. Not a graphical interface.

 

[jvchappy]

Who wouldn't want to continue working for Jony Ive. He's a legend.

 

[Ryan P]

There is room to reinvent the capabilities of smart phone in a non phone form factor from an AI first perspective.

The way to think about it is if everyone had access to a flawless personal assistant at their call 24/7, what would be the best technology to interact with it.

The device needs to:

• Provide visual, audio, and location data to the AI
• Process the requests both locally and in the cloud
• Provide visual and auditory feedback back to the user

Smart phones can handle this, but not necessarily ideal. A device that relied less on manual interaction by the user probably makes more sense.