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Jony Ive Discusses Steve Jobs, Continued Work With Apple, Wearables and More

joelypolly said:
Apple and Ive made a bet on touchbar & USB-C being the future, it didn't pan out. They got over it and gave us new laptops. It's almost as if they made a mistake and fixed it...
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Cute but you know darn well that's not how it happened. As usual, Apple's obstinence and obtuseness (read: arrogance) stubbornly held on to a failed and laughably stupid idea for years in the touchbar & butterfly keyboard until they could no longer justify it with a straight face after the true pros abandoned Apple in droves
 
TheYayAreaLiving said:
Also, Jony Ive: Can you please tell me what am I looking at in your website. I don’t see anything. It's nothing but text there. Is this some sort of a trick?

www.lovefrom.com

LoveFrom,

LoveFrom is a creative collective.
www.lovefrom.com www.lovefrom.com
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Yes, you read it right :) No email, to send prank requests, no pictures, no names. Just a very "thin" scroll.

And, agreed, Jony looks slightly rough on edges. I wish he would have a toothbrush hanging from behind his cheek (upper one, to be specific :) )
 
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szw-mapple fan said:
You must be young or a new Apple user. The new MacBook Pro designs draws a lot of inspirations from the Ive designed PowerBook designs from the 2000s.

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Ha! Nah I was a Mac genius from 07-14, very familiar with the designs, was certified to fix them too. Disassembled them to nothing but bare components on a genius room bench. Been on Macs since 1998.

I’m saying the new 14/16” design doesn’t reflect modern, thinnest design possible at the expense of utility Jony.

Steve Jobs was Jony’s editor. Once Steve left this earth, Ive slimmed down every design to the point of questionable usefulness. No doubt in my mind that if Jobs passed sooner, we’d have had less ports even sooner. Ive is all about minimalism, his work in the post Jobs era proved it.
 
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Rogifan said:
How so? Many have compared them to the Powerbooks which no doubt Ive was involved with.
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Yes but those were his early aughts design goals. Steve Jobs largely kept Jony’s whims in check. Once Steve left us, we got the unedited Jony and those ports and chonky utility disappeared rapidly.

These new Mac’s spiritually call back to aspects of the Ti book, 2005 era PowerBooks, and 2012 OG retina. To say Jony would have gone for “a walk back in time”… I don’t think so.
 
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Blackstick said:
Ha! Nah I was a Mac genius from 07-14, very familiar with the designs, was certified to fix them too. Disassembled them to nothing but bare components on a genius room bench. Been on Macs since 1998.

I’m saying the new 14/16” design doesn’t reflect modern, thinnest design possible at the expense of utility Jony.

Steve Jobs was Jony’s editor. Once Steve left this earth, Ive slimmed down every design to the point of questionable usefulness. No doubt in my mind that if Jobs passed sooner, we’d have had less ports even sooner. Ive is all about minimalism, his work in the post Jobs era proved it.
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Agree with all of your points. Ive‘s designs after Jobs’s death are amazing in a vacuum, but lacks practicality and often doesn’t take into account the reality of user needs.
 
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Scoob Redux said:
A laptop is a laptop. Jony's later designs were going in the wrong direction. The new MacBook Pros stopped his vision of where laptops should go.
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It was going in the right direction, it was just too premature. I think no one doubts the future is portless, but you cannot do that yet. And both on the outside and the inside (some say that Ive is only about form, which if you’ve followed Apple for a while you know is not true) they’re essentially the same MBPs as always.

Steve Jobs also had those kind of mistakes, for example with the Mac Cube. Some years later, he introduced the Mac Mini, which wasn’t as expensive and expandable.
 
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Naraxus said:
This

Ive is a flat out horrible designer, putting form above all else & rarely, if ever, thinking about function. It's why we got laptops/phones etc that are so asininely thin, commonly used ports removed for no reason other than "courage", designs like mouse with the charger on the bottom of the device, the original Apple Stylus charging in via the iPad, the universally despised Butterfly Keyboard and more.
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Or looks like you have zero idea about design. This is the man who designed the unibody computer frame. The one single thing that makes it possible to have laptops that last a decade instead of just a few years. That was revolutionary design then and still is the best solution today.
It is the man who undesigned the mobile phone to something soo minimalistic that it is pure function. It is called the iPhone. And his design was then copied by all other phone manufacturers.
Yes he made a few dubious decisions, but then don't we all! But in all he is one of the most iconic and influential designers of the last few decades.
 
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TheYayAreaLiving said:
Also, Jony Ive: Can you please tell me what am I looking at in your website. I don’t see anything. It's nothing but text there. Is this some sort of a trick?

www.lovefrom.com

LoveFrom,

LoveFrom is a creative collective.
www.lovefrom.com www.lovefrom.com
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It’s a conceptual statement. If you’re looking for portfolio or contact you’re not a potential client ?
 
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Naraxus said:
This

Ive is a flat out horrible designer, putting form above all else & rarely, if ever, thinking about function. It's why we got laptops/phones etc that are so asininely thin, commonly used ports removed for no reason other than "courage", designs like mouse with the charger on the bottom of the device, the original Apple Stylus charging in via the iPad, the universally despised Butterfly Keyboard and more.
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I think differently: That’s why today we have desktop class processors in our beloved laptops; why we have magnetic charging, etc. because the “function only” mantra is not enough and surely won’t push things forward nor it will encourage new ideas.
 
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szw-mapple fan said:
You must be young or a new Apple user. The new MacBook Pro designs draws a lot of inspirations from the Ive designed PowerBook designs from the 2000s.

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More precisely 2008 first unibody MBP
 
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MacRumors said:
Ive also spoke on the future of wearables, and he said that he expects wearable technology to continue to advance to the point where some devices are embedded in the body. "There's no doubt... that some of these products will disappear beneath our skin," he said. "I can't think of anything more personal, more specific, more individual, and more intimate than things being inside us."
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Ghost in the Shell beat you there. Talking the original 1995 Japanese film (also had a sequel) not the Hollywood remake.

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Based on a manga, and spawned several anime series as well as the Hollywood film. premise is that nearly all humans have cybernetic implants, usually a brain implant to allow instant net access (no more iPhones :p ). The main character Major Motoko, is a special police officer cyborg with nearly an entirely artificial body but retains a partly human (though highly augmented) human brain. Looks at what makes a human, what it means to be intelligent and conscious. Highly recommended.
 
Didn't eleborate on why he is teaching at British college. Design must require a decompress.
 
tmoerel said:
Ever lost someone close and dear? Grief is like that!
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Lost many people, and keep their memory very close, but I do not talk about them on every occasion.

I mean, I am all for respecting a lost friend, but after 10 years he could skip mentioning him at every interview.
 
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