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Jony Ive Featured on WSJ. Magazine Cover, Talks Work at Apple and Design Philosophy

sw1tcher said:
and hockey puck mouse (Horrible ergonomics), Magic Mouse 2 (Charging port on the bottom? Really?)
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I never understood this take on the Apple mice (any of them). Been using them exclusively since 2005 and never felt my hand get tired or sore due to use. I agree the port on the bottom of the MM2 isn't ideal, but just a couple minutes charge would get you a lot more time of use in a pinch if you let the mouse die, so it wasn't a deal-breaker.
 
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I have two of those iconic devices in my collection. I should try getting a first gen iPad, Apple Watch, iMac G4 and Bondai Blue G3.
 
The funny thing about people saying they don't miss him or they think he is overrated is he was likely one of the reasons you even got into Apple in the first place. Every single category he touched and designed didn't only affect Apple, it affected whatever product category it was from other manufacturers. He actually did make some decent designs before Jobs came back, but he has said in the past that before Jobs came back Apple was more concerned about making cheap crap as quickly as they could rather than making something enjoyable to use. If he wasn't there when Jobs came back, Apple's trajectory likely would have been much different.
 
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Dezlboy said:
Mr Ives, "The death of a company is so ugly."

OUCH! Are he and Mr Cookon speaking terms?
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Yeah sounds like the words of a man who can't stand that he wasn't getting his way. To be fair, it's like Apple is losing their way and being controlled by some more corporate goons so he could have a point.

I also found it interesting however, that he basically said Apple was sliding since the Newton didn't sell xD First off, as if it was the companies fault for not sticking with a failed product. But also, that was most of his time at Apple, and the time Steve was around. It seems he prefers Apple as a failing brand in the early 90s.
 
One of the greatest industrial designers of this generation. Anyone in the comments implying otherwise has never owned an Apple product. For a company that is fundamentally a design company that wouldn’t be here today if it wasn’t for the iPod and iPhone, there sure is lot of salty people on this forum.
 
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chenks said:
probably in the vast minority, but "Ive" is the most overrated overhyped person in the last few decades.

his designs are almost always form over function, usually always to the point that the function becomes disrupted.

lets also remember that Ive was at apple during the barren period before it had re-invent itself.
in the re-invented apple he's the classic case of someone having way too much power.
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Yeh, completely overhyped. The iPhone, iPad and iMacs are all universally considered poor designs, not in any way iconic, not put into design museums, and sold very poorly, and didn't turn Apple from a basket case to one of the world's biggest companies. I don't know how he sleeps at night quite frankly. Come on, Jony, do something you'll be remembered for!
 
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"Our philosophy is to make products look great, but less functional. Also, we use al-lu-minium so I can al-lu-minium during every keynote."
 
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Compile 'em all said:
One of the greatest industrial designers of this generation. Anyone in the comments implying otherwise has never owned an Apple product. For a company that is fundamentally a design company that wouldn’t be here today if it wasn’t for the iPod and iPhone, there sure is lot of salty people on this forum.
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He’s amazing at what he does, but he isn’t perfect. Still don’t miss him.

Mmmm… salt.
 
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His design company is LoveFrom?

Wouldn't LoveForm have been more apt?
 
Kimmo said:
His design company is LoveFrom?

Wouldn't LoveForm have been more apt?
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It would make more sense to you if you look at the company name and know that the product designs are "made with Love, From Jony Ive"


LoveFrom? Sort of an odd name on first hearing, right? Well, there’s a story there. The name comes from this Steve Jobs quote, paraphrased by Ives in a Financial Times piece today.

“There was an employee meeting a number of years ago and Steve [Jobs] was talking . . . He [said] that one of the fundamental motivations was that when you make something with love and with care, even though you probably will never meet . . . the people that you’re making it for, and you’ll never shake their hand, by making something with care, you are expressing your gratitude to humanity, to the species.”

“I so identified with that motivation and was moved by his description. So my new company is called ‘LoveFrom’. It succinctly speaks to why I do what I do.”
 
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The guy is nothing more than an overrated hack whose asinine obsession with thinness lead to some of the worst Macs on record, dongles galore, absurd charging port locations, horrible keyboards & laughably piss-poor software design.

I couldn't be happier he's gone
 
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sw1tcher said:
and hockey puck mouse (Horrible ergonomics), Magic Mouse 2 (Charging port on the bottom? Really?), trashcan Mac Pro (hard to upgrade and poor cooling),...
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How dare you criticize the candy color iMac hockey puck mouse! It was very colorful!!

(You - “That’s not the argument”)

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Compile 'em all said:
One of the greatest industrial designers of this generation. Anyone in the comments implying otherwise has never owned an Apple product. For a company that is fundamentally a design company that wouldn’t be here today if it wasn’t for the iPod and iPhone, there sure is lot of salty people on this forum.
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He was great when he was on but when he was off… damn. Nearly every design change, there was a showstopper flaw or design problem that needed to be fixed. So I only ever bought iPhones with an S and never a brand new design mac. Never. And some of them never got fixed like the mice, or the deck on the pre-unibody plastic macbook. That has changed after he left, not the mice of course because nobody GAF, but the first version issues have decreased significantly.
 
How soon they forget. Apple was almost bankrupt in 1997. Today it is the most valuable company in the world. Jobs, Cook, and Ives get most of the credit for that startling growth. For Jobs’ last 12-13 years, he and Ives were peas in the same pod. Yes, Ives and Cook increasingly disagreed through his final years at Apple. Most of us can even argue that he lost much of his touch in that period. But it is ludicrous to minimize the contribution he made to what Apple is today.
 
cocky jeremy said:
"Our philosophy is to make products look great, but less functional. Also, we use al-lu-minium so I can al-lu-minium during every keynote."
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But you know that’s how we say it don’t you? In other English speaking countries, like I dunno. England?
 
I like Ive's designs including the iMac with round mouse. I had one. The best designed was one of my "Ti" Powerbooks. Pure beauty, even the backside, and long living.
However at one point he started to reduce connectors too much for my taste. Still a top designer especially for new things.

Let's not forget Hartmut Esslinger over all this, who originally made Apple the industrial design icon it is today. Back then other computers were beige boxes with a design quality below type writers.

Hartmut Esslinger - Wikipedia

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