Apple's Jonathan Ive Considering Moving Back to England?

[0098386]

Maybe this huge shake up at Apple will be a good thing. Maybe they'll go back to focussing on OSX and their computers instead of the iToys (a happy iPod touch owner I am).

I can't imagine Apple continuing as they currently are if the 2 most important people to that company leave.

 

[zipster]

What a good looking man.

 

[sonictonic]

Thanks for replying to that jackass for me!

Your the F'n idiot mate if you choose to ignore that Ive is part of this magical 'Team'

HE has created most likely what you use to make calls, type on, listen to music on, millions and millions use HIS design every day, he is responsible for Saving Apple because HIS designs have brought Apple masses of sales.

Yeah, get rid of him, he's replacable sure you don't put your ****ing desinger into product selling videos and air them at press launches if you don't consider him to be important enough to be recognised the same way as Steve Jobs.... Apple's stocks WOULD take a hit if he left because he is just as realted to Apple's products as Steve is to Apple.


And as to the complete and utter tool of an idiot who posted complaining about where the DC converter is placed in the MB seriously mate, just don't post ever again....

 

[Jarcrew]

Maybe this huge shake up at Apple will be a good thing. Maybe they'll go back to focussing on OSX and their computers instead of the iToys (a happy iPod touch owner I am).

I can't imagine Apple continuing as they currently are if the 2 most important people to that company leave.

I would be hard pushed to think of a scenario in which Apple throw their mobile devices work on the back burner to focus on OS X. It doesn't make fiscal sense.

 

[rmwebs]

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.

I hardly think thats going to be the reason. He'll want his kids to go to a nice private British school. I'm not trying to troll or piss anyone off here, but they provide unmatched education.

Also, we don't have posh accents...generally only the stuck-up/Mrs Bucket and members of the Monarchy do. You'd get called a **** if you walked down the street talking like a posh git

 

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It's from the sunday times

"The Sunday Times reports that Apple designer Jonathan Ive and the Apple's board of directors are said to be at an impasse about his future. The British designer is said to want to spend more time in the UK while Apple's board seems unwilling to allow that. The report comes by way of The Daily Mail and Cult of Mac as the original article appears to behind a paywall."


So all the information again was just a repost
So Arn, Did you read what you posted.

The Sunday Times Reported what the "The Daily Mail" & Cult of Mac Said, What so hard to understand.

prowlmedia was correct, The Sundays Times Just Said what The Daily Mail Said, What so hard to understand that they are reporting on a 3rd party Source,The Sunday Times Reported what the "The Daily Mail" Said and nothing else but that. Nothing New as was pointed out since the information was taken from the DailyMail it is not to be trusted and links had been given to show that mistrust in the reporting of that source that the Sunday Times made it's story about, using only the The Daily Mail and the Cult of Mac to write a Story on.

Quote: From the DailyMail
"However, despite the 'rock star' status Essex-born Ive has in the design world, with his work lauded by peers and used by millions around the world, the newspaper said his desire to 'commute' from his £2.5m manor house in Somerset was being opposed by bosses at the technology company, who want him to stay in the U.S."


The Sunday Times is a Repost of the Daily Mail so prowlmedia is Correct.

So The Information and Source "Daily Mail" that prowlmedia had said is not to be trusted.
It Doesn't make The Sunday Time A trusted Source if they get information from a Bad Source as the Post was trying to get across.

 

[OllyW]

Wait, he's been at Apple since 1991? What was he doing before 1999?!

 

[jowie]

Daily Mail is a right wing rag, it'll be ******** no doubt.

Agreed. Nobody listen to a word of the Daily Fail. It prints LIES. Lots of lies. Awful, hateful newspaper. Wouldn't wipe my arse with it.

Do you get I don't like the Daily Mail?

 

[Loge]

It's okay, he can just Facetime Apple from England.

If he pays 59p

 

[GQB]

Wait, he's been at Apple since 1991? What was he doing before 1999?!

Being ignored.

 

[netcastle]

Wow! What a thread. So abstract and philosophical.

Companies negotiate with, loose and add talent all the time. Life goes on. Apple has to change at some point. How will it change? What will it become? Hopefully not the evil empire all of us ran from in the first place. I fear that is the direction it might be headed.

Seriously, in the world of business there are a lot of advantages to being number two.

 

[RMo]

Believe it or not he designed the Newton.

Well ... I guess it was/looked good by early-to-mid-90's standards. (Actually, the MP2000 looks strangely like my Kindle, although undoubtedly much thicker.)

 

[*LTD*]

A friend of the family told the paper: “Unfortunately he is just too valuable to Apple and they told him in no uncertain terms that if he headed back to England he would not be able to sustain his position with them.”

Uh-huh . . .

 

[LondonCentral]

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!

Me too. The Mail are absolutely awful. What's tragic about their 'news' articles are the reader comments below each story, which are often vitriolic, bigoted, hate filled rants.

As for Ive, maybe there are people vying for Jobs' role, maybe not. Doesn't Jobs himself have an opinion? I thought there wasn't going to be a single successor anyway, as majority shareholders voted in favor against a single CEO taking over. Too risky.

 

[DELLsFan]

Sorry, Jony -

You're going to need to stay in the US a while longer. All that wealth you have needs to be spread around a bit. Steve's pal, Obama and Al Gore insist.

 

[carlemil]

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?

$51 billion

 

[3282868]

LOL Did he have anything to do with that???

Jobs himself brought Ives into Apple as Lead Industrial Designer around 1997-8. In fact, I have a book on Industrial Design and Ive's is fairly prevalent throughout it. As I recall Ives had his own industrial design firm in Scotland, and caught the eye of Jobs who heavily recruited him to Cupertino in the late '90's. This info about him being with Apple in the early '90's seems rubbish.

…and I wouldn't blame him, I miss the UK and after the last decade the US isn't what it used to be (or should be). There are a heck of a lot of ex-Pat's, more so than ever, and a lot of my friends are moving back to Australia or the E.U. Times are grime in the U.S.

 

[Dillenger]

Gotomeeting.com - problem solved.

 

[xnu]

Remember in 2006 when Avie Tevanian left.... everyone was like, "oh no what will we do, they will never develop a new version of osX, nooooo"

Maybe he is burnt out and needs sometime with his family. No big deal. He will be named to the board of Elevation Partners and the tech world will move on.

In 15 years he will come back to Apple after Michael Dell's son say's "I would shut Apple down and give all the money back to the stockholders".

Let's thank him for a awesome decade of product design!

 

[Jaffa Cake]

The Sunday Times is a Repost of the Daily Mail so prowlmedia is Correct.

So The Information and Source "Daily Mail" that prowlmedia had said is not to be trusted.
It Doesn't make The Sunday Time A trusted Source if they get information from a Bad Source as the Post was trying to get across.

I may be mistaken, but I read it that the Daily Mail/Cult of Mac articles were linked to in the OP as the original article – from The Sunday Times – can only be seen if you have a paid subscription to that particular paper's site...

 

[lifeinhd]

This... is really depressing. This is the man who truly revitalized Apple-- he came to Jobs with his resignation letter in his pocket, but Jobs gave him permission to simply do something great, and he came up with the iMac. This man is the reason Apple is the success it is today-- I can't imagine the iPhone being what it is today if it were encased in beige plastic and were three times as thick. This man holds my dream job. I wrote a college entrance essay about this man, about the ubiquitousness of his work, about his drive and passion, about how he was my role model, about how I aspired to be him. And now this.

This is possibly more depressing, to me, than the news of Jobs' passing will be. All Jobs' passing will bring is a temporary stock drop and a bit more openness. But this, unless Ive has some truly brilliant designers working under him, could ruin the company.

 

[OllyW]

LOL Did he have anything to do with that???

Jobs himself brought Ives into Apple as Lead Industrial Designer around 1997-8. In fact, I have a book on Industrial Design and Ive's is fairly prevalent throughout it. As I recall Ives had his own industrial design firm in Scotland, and caught the eye of Jobs who heavily recruited him to Cupertino in the late '90's. This info about him being with Apple in the early '90's seems rubbish.

…and I wouldn't blame him, I miss the UK and after the last decade the US isn't what it used to be (or should be). There are a heck of a lot of ex-Pat's, more so than ever, and a lot of my friends are moving back to Australia or the E.U. Times are grime in the U.S.

He joined Apple in 1992. What are you on about?

 

[kdarling]

Thousands of US companies stupidly farm out work to inexperienced kids in India, and yet someone at Apple is too much a control freak to let someone good like Ive work from the UK?

*shaking head*

Apple deserves to lose him instead.

 

[Denarius]

The rebirth of um... Amstrad.

Well, why not? Who'd have thought Apple would be in the position it is now in the early '90's?

 

[firestarter]

someone at Apple is too much a control freak

Have you heard of this guy Steve Jobs?