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Apple's Jonathan Ive Considering Moving Back to England?
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It's from the sunday times
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Damn, I wish I hadn't missed the source. If it's from the Mail, I've just wasted time reading six pages of comments No worries then!
It's from the sunday times
I worked for a virtual company (everyone worked out of their homes). And I interviewed with another company for a remote position. More and more companies are moving that way. it is very possible (if you are disciplined) to be very productive working remotely. And technology like live meeting / net meeting / webex; remote collaboration in MS Office, and others make it very possible to keep in daily touch with your peers / co-workers. Plus you don't have the distraction of people cornering you for non-essentials. If it is a little more of an effort for them to seek you out, you know they will need something significant and not a time waster.
By all means let him go to the UK and work remotely.
Anyone think this story is a designed plant by a friend of the family to help Mr. Ives negotiate an even bigger pay/bonus package this year?
Given that the above badly flawed products produced more billions in Apple profit than the did the vast majority of competing products designed by other designers at other companies, most Apple shareholder are very likely saying "Please more flawed products such as the above. Please. Please.".
Given that the above badly flawed products produced more billions in Apple profit than the did the vast majority of competing products designed by other designers at other companies, most Apple shareholder are very likely saying "Please more flawed products such as the above. Please. Please.".
someone here said Ive is considered to be everything, how apple is today.
Don't laugh at me, but my first thought was "oh, in the article they are saying, he is famous for inventing the Macbook Pro, iPad and iPhone Design. Nice, the writer thinks, nobody knows the iMac G3 anyways." then I caught myself thinking, that I actually didn't know, that he was still at Apple* and responsible for the latest products design.
*(you native speakers, is it "at Apple" or "at Apple's"?)
and another thought. I was watching a TV magazine for culture and they had a short portrait of Thomas Heatherwick. I thought "oh, someone Apple could look for". Then I went on the internet and found this article Maybe this is an alternative (though he is actually British, too, i.e. he would have to move, too).
Don't laugh at me, but my first thought was "oh, in the article they are saying, he is famous for inventing the Macbook Pro, iPad and iPhone Design. Nice, the writer thinks, nobody knows the iMac G3 anyways." then I caught myself thinking, that I actually didn't know, that he was still at Apple* and responsible for the latest products design.
*(you native speakers, is it "at Apple" or "at Apple's"?)
and another thought. I was watching a TV magazine for culture and they had a short portrait of Thomas Heatherwick. I thought "oh, someone Apple could look for". Then I went on the internet and found this article
Maybe this is an alternative (though he is actually British, too, i.e. he would have to move, too).
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No Read again - the source regarding him moving was the Mail. and the times rebutting that a source said they would not let him go. Typical British press bollocks...
paperA - Lets make something up..
paperB - They may be onto something - Lets make up the opposite.
paperA - we can make a few quid here
paperB - OK - We spoke to subjects 1st grade teacher - they denied it
Paper A - but their milkman said they have cancelled there order.
paper C - whooa - but I want to get in on this. Their mum's hairdresser said it's not true
Financal bod - keep it up - I am making tons....
What he means by "educate" his children in England... he means that he wants them to form their posh english accent. Because if they stayed in the US that would be all but impossible unless you homeschooled them etc.
That statement belies your near total lack of comprehension of the Apple Ecosystem and what has made Apple Apple.
(Err, G4, but anyhoo.)
I'll take it a step further and say that, while the G4 Cube was complete sales flop (and for good reason), that products such as it and the iMac G4 helped to garner the interest of many PC-using onlookers. Though Apple was doing better at the time than they had been a few years prior when Jobs returned, they still weren't completely out of the woods. Though some of those machines were still overpriced and so forth, to some degree it helped to legitimize the company/brand/whatevr in the minds of certain individuals, in that time prior to when the iPod created that so-called "halo effect". Yes, measureably (at least on paper) it wasn't a tangible success. But the eye-windening effect that those and other sorts of products had musn't be overlooked.
I know this just from working in a retail stpre which sold at least twenty PCs for every mac. But when folks when come into the department, many of them would sort of freeze and gawk away at the 22" Cinema Display, Cube, Ti PowerBook, iMac G4 and so on.
He's probably earned quite enough money to live more than comfortably for the rest of his life. If he wants to move back to England there's not much Apple can do about it. What can you offer the man who has everything?
If he's hoping they'll go to university in Newcastle as he did, there's not much chance of posh accents developing.
Mind, booze prices may well be cheaper in UK student union bars that's probably the driving force behind this.
Actually, it would still be impossible unless you surrounded him with British-English-speaking peers or kept him in captivity all day. Kids don't learn language by imitating their parents.
In any case, hopefully they can work something out. Many people appreciate the designs he has created for Apple (or, at least, post iMac G3--see my previous post), and together with Jobs' vision, I think it's clear it had a lot to do with the company's turnaround, if not their becoming a leader whose design everyone else seeks to imitate.
OK, this story explains everything!
A year or so I opened up an iPod and there was a little note inside from Jon Ive, "Help, I'm being held captive in a Chinese iPod factory."
A year or so I opened up an iPod and there was a little note inside from Jon Ive, "Help, I'm being held captive in a Chinese iPod factory."
Yeah it was perfectly ok to work here not paying taxes and sucking up on our infrastructure and clean air....glad they left good ridden.
Yip. Fair enough! hands up. I typed that and Deleted it twice too as I was not sure and I was wrong!
But you have it right - Brand is the word! I forgot about the first 30" displays too. Awesome!
Believe it or not he designed the Newton. (which i loved)
This is a negotiation, whatever the stock drops tomorrow will show how much he is worth to the company. A great trial balloon. Shave 10 billion off the value of the company and see what they offer. He deserves it. Let him work in England and cultivate some new talent at the same time.
http://www.time.com/time/digital/cyberelite/44.html