https://9to5mac.com/2019/06/28/bloomberg-jony-ive-departs-apple/
Seems like he has been stepping down for some time.
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Apple's Longtime Design Chief Jony Ive Leaving to Start New Design Company With Apple as a Primary Client
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https://9to5mac.com/2019/06/28/bloomberg-jony-ive-departs-apple/
Seems like he has been stepping down for some time.
Wow this is sad news. It seems he will continue to design products for Apple, but will also do stuff for other companies which will make the Apple products less unique. Can you imagine an Apple product with a “designed by Johnny Ive” patch on it like those LaCie disks? I don’t know, for me this is a very sad day, as he was very much what carried over the Steve Jobs legacy imo!
Fine, I'll concede to that. I may have exaggerated but calling Android Linux is a hard stretch.
https://www.androidauthority.com/android-linux-784964/
Just because server rooms and the random black boxes around our homes are running some linux kernel doesn't mean it's a good choice for a main OS. Most distros are generally unintuitive and squarely in the domain of engineers (and engineers unwitting mothers who are used as "proof" that normal people can use it). It didn't even gain critical mass in server rooms until Red Hat started offering enterprise support and standardizing many of the operations, i.e., all the things Microsoft was already doing.
Linux will become a popular desktop OS once it no longer matters what the desktop OS is.
I bet you believe politicians as well ?It might be true, or it might just be to assuage the stock price.
I think Apple saying that Jony will still be working on Apple products and that Apple will be his first client (true or not) is simply to keep folks (shareholders) calm. Regardless of how many products he designs for Apple moving forward, or who at Apple is now driving, overseeing, or approving future designs, this is a significant dynamics shift in the design process. Time will tell whether that turns out to be for the better or the worse for Apple, but it's definitely interesting. I generally like the products Jony has designed for Apple but I have also noticed a pretty big dip in product QC in the last couple of years. One could easily point the finger at manufacturing, but if you're building something perfectly that has been imperfectly designed, who's to blame? I suspect Jony doesn't hear the word "no" or "can't" very often, either from the manufacturers or indeed, his own design team. Design and manufacturing is very much a collaborative effort, but I wonder who typically has the last word in those meetings. It is in this shift, whereby Jony is no longer the client, that could turn out to be a blessing for Apple. Time will tell.
That's not what the poster said. He/she said nothing regarding consumer devices running Linux. No confusion here (except maybe yours). I read it as it was. The internet runs on Linux. Internet consumption does not (generally speaking).
Jobs died in late 2011 (?), the Trashcan was unveiled in mid 2013. I find it likely that the project was well underway when Jobs was still in charge and IMO a radical redesign like that would have only gone forward with his explicit approval.
He's also the guy who pushed away from just making traditional computer designs so wouldn't it have fit right into his vision?
Well, Ive was essentially Dieter until Johnny decided to go thin with his future designs and threw Rams’ basic idea of optimal functionality through minimalistic design over board (at least the functionality part)
“24 year Apple veteran” means he’s been with the company for 24 years, not that he’s 24 years old
Alas, Apple has just lost their Golden Boy.
The last of the Steve Jobs era.
No one there knows Apple products better than he does. It’s going to be an interesting next few years folks.
Although, I do think that we won’t see any major changes for a while. Apple probably already has the next 2-3 iPhones/iPads already rendered out.
The last of the Steve Jobs era.
No one there knows Apple products better than he does. It’s going to be an interesting next few years folks.
Although, I do think that we won’t see any major changes for a while. Apple probably already has the next 2-3 iPhones/iPads already rendered out.
Pretty much. I don’t know why people are making it seem like he won’t be involved with Apple design anymore. Read the darn article people.
Please no.
[doublepost=1561722370][/doublepost]The fact Apple released this news on a Friday means they want minimum coverage/exposure. If they wanted maximum coverage it would be released on a Sunday night or Monday morning. That’s how the news cycle works.
I've been waiting years to say this...Hip Hip, Hooray! Hip, Hip Hooray! What a complete hack Ive is! All he ever did was ride Jobs' coat tails, and tweak designs and Jobs saw fit. Jobs should've hired Dieter Rams. Now there is an excellent industrial designer!
The original post, if you care to follow it:
https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...-primary-client.2187702/page-19#post-27498163
Somewhere along the line, things got mixed up.
