It's well known that Steve Jobs liked Sony's Vaio line and he thought about licensing OS X to Sony. The deal went nowhere so he borrowed from Sony for the PowerBook and iBook lines.
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Jony Ive Confirms Involvement in AI Hardware Project With OpenAI
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It's well known that Steve Jobs liked Sony's Vaio line and he thought about licensing OS X to Sony. The deal went nowhere so he borrowed from Sony for the PowerBook and iBook lines.
Great artists steal.
oh. they've just been talking about this since April. I found all the old articles. maybe I misread the headlines at the time. still seems like a lose cause. no one wants more hardware. I can't imagine we'd need an Ai pin to go with our AI phones and eventually watches
“What I’m learning is to trust, more than ever, my intuition,” Mr. Ive said. “That’s the thing that I’m most excited about.” This sums up everything you need to know about Jony at the moment. Oy.
Clearly Ive is a genius. He and Jobs greatly influenced contemporary industrial design. However, it doesn't seem like he has any interest in creating consumer products anymore. $17k watches, $64k turntables, $2K parkas, Ferraris, hundreds of millions in real estate. The article made it seem like this is a unbelievably rich designer making products for rich people. Which is fine—he has earned it!
I must say he has tremendous loyalty amongst his employees. My heart sank when I saw he'd hired Evans Hankey. I feel like she undid all of Jony's form of function misadventures. Between her and Laurene Powell Jobs, there is a strong post-Apple collective. I'm curious to see what they do, but so far it's mostly limited to King Charles and Ferrari owners.
Clearly Ive is a genius. He and Jobs greatly influenced contemporary industrial design. However, it doesn't seem like he has any interest in creating consumer products anymore. $17k watches, $64k turntables, $2K parkas, Ferraris, hundreds of millions in real estate. The article made it seem like this is a unbelievably rich designer making products for rich people. Which is fine—he has earned it!
I must say he has tremendous loyalty amongst his employees. My heart sank when I saw he'd hired Evans Hankey. I feel like she undid all of Jony's form of function misadventures. Between her and Laurene Powell Jobs, there is a strong post-Apple collective. I'm curious to see what they do, but so far it's mostly limited to King Charles and Ferrari owners.
Not without Steve. Without Steve, we got the $17,000 Apple Watch and the MagSafe-less 2016 MacBook Pro.
Who knows? Perhaps in a few years Jony & Co. will pull another “NeXT”, when after a period of stagnation Apple will come knocking looking to buy their business?
Former Apple chief design officer Jony Ive has officially confirmed his involvement in an artificial intelligence hardware project with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. The confirmation appeared in a profile of the designer by The New York Times, putting to rest speculation that began nearly a year ago about a potential collaboration between the two figures.
The AI hardware venture is reportedly being funded by Ive and the Emerson Collective, a company founded by Laurene Powell Jobs. According to the report, the project could secure up to $1 billion in funding by the end of the year, signaling significant investor interest in the endeavor.
Despite its high-profile leadership, the project is still in its early stages, with only 10 employees currently on board. However, the team includes notable former Apple designers Tang Tan and Evans Hankey, both of whom worked closely with Ive on the iPhone. Ive's design firm, LoveFrom, is spearheading the device's design process.
The collaboration between Ive and Altman reportedly stemmed from discussions about the potential for generative AI to enable new types of computing devices. The technology's ability to handle complex requests is seen as a key factor in creating novel user experiences that go beyond traditional software capabilities.
While specific details about the AI product and its release timeline remain under wraps, the team has already established a significant presence in San Francisco, working out of a 32,000-square-foot office building, part of a $90 million real estate acquisition by Ive on a single city block.
The new venture marks Ive's most significant technology project since departing Apple in 2019. After leaving his role as chief design officer, Ive continued to work with Apple as a consultant through LoveFrom until 2022, when the partnership officially concluded.
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