Got a tip for us?
Let us know
Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.
Jony Ive Named Chief Design Officer at Apple, Alan Dye and Richard Howarth Take Over Day-to-Day Design Management
- Thread starter MacRumors
- Start date
- Sort by reaction score
What? As an Englishman I am embarrassed you have no idea why someone is knighted.
Actually looking at All 110 of your hateful one sentance posts. You clearly have a massive chip on our shoulder. Perhaps you should get out more and stop being so Jealous of other people's success and actually do something yourself or are you a Paid Shill?
----------
Well I am fairly sure it was split under Ive already. He's still at the top of that tree - just with 2 minions ( albeit very experienced minions ) between him and the paperwork
Last edited:
I couldn't agree more with this. This guy pollutes this forum with non-stop hate speech about Apple and its management without adding anything constructive or alternative.
So do you have anything useful to actually say here? Show me your idea of good design and what is wrong with OSX in your eyes?
----------
oh look here's another one...
It's like me going on a BMW forum (when I have a range rover) and slating everything they do for no reason at all. I've no idea what goes through their heads... It's like they are not wired correctly. I wonder if they do the same on Linux forums?
"I MUST GET MY POINTLESS HATRED ACROSS"
Not under Steve jobs watch! Oh wait! 
Seriously this was long over due.
Love him or hate him, this man deserves the credit of this title.
It's about time.
######
Seriously this was long over due.
Love him or hate him, this man deserves the credit of this title.
It's about time.
######
I respect your opinion but I also disagree in your opinion. Why can't other users be this nice?
Attention Apple Employees:
When taking official apple photos, please remember to wear your watch.
Thank you and continue on,
When taking official apple photos, please remember to wear your watch.
Thank you and continue on,
Hah, I was editing my post but it did not save unfortunately. In general I was supporting your view and would prefer not be cast in the same corner as the random hate generators.
IMHO there doesn't need to be an alternative drive behind this "promotion" of Ive other than that design is becoming ever more important within Apple and that the responsibility for design has become so broad that it makes sense to distribute operational responsibility over a number of shoulders.
Of course it could mean that either of the two new guys is a future successor and that the structure is now in place for them to be groomed, but that could be years away.
Not everything is a conspiracy as so many here always assume. Just like the logo of the big events in hindsight doesn't correlate to a fraction of the suspicions that people had before the event.
Definitely looks like Cook is wearing an SS with the blue leather loop. I think Ive is wearing an Edition but I can't really tell if the strap is a sport or the BCB.
Whatever this means - whatever Jony has planned, I think some thanks are in order.
Thank you Jony for all the years of dedication to your craft. Through your passion for industrial design, the world of technology has become a more connected, prettier, and well thought out place.
You've even challenged those who never cared about design into stepping up their own game - and have you have won, Jony. Every tech firm cares about design now - it's their top priority!
Thank you, on behalf of all of the Apple Fan community
You know he doesn't read this right? Your post is like yelling at the car in front of you on the road, telling them to go faster! They can't hear you.
That's funny, not saying a guy can't change his mind... but Cook is always touting his SS with White sport band.
I hope this means there's a job opening for a Senior Icon Design Officer with Apple ;-) I don't know what they were smoking but it has gone from bad to worse with their icons.
No he has never said that and he specifically said in the New Yorker that he and his wife had no intention of moving back to England. Hence why they sold their house over there and bought a $17M mansion in San Francisco.
I doubt he'd ever want to be CEO but Cook could have easily reduced his day to day managerial stuff without a promotion or creating a new C-level position. That suggests to me this isn't a one foot out the door thing it's a those car rumors are more than just rumors thing.
Ive has always been the worlds best hardware designer.... but not so great at software design, which to be fair is a completely different thing.
Just because your awesome at industrial / hardware design does not mean that your good at all kinds of design...
Design at Apple has always been very collaborative, but after Jobs I feel like they were looking so desperately for a replacement figurehead who could be everything to everyone that they burned Ive with way too much.
Hardware & Software design were always split because they require very different talents. Its like asking a cabinet maker to craft a beautiful oil painting.
Just because your awesome at industrial / hardware design does not mean that your good at all kinds of design...
Design at Apple has always been very collaborative, but after Jobs I feel like they were looking so desperately for a replacement figurehead who could be everything to everyone that they burned Ive with way too much.
Hardware & Software design were always split because they require very different talents. Its like asking a cabinet maker to craft a beautiful oil painting.
I think it also creates a corporate structure that is closer to what Apple actually was under Jobs. The reality of Apple was that Jobs and Ivy had lunch every day. That kind of access to the CEO kind of meant that Ivy had more influence than his job title would indicate. I think Cook and Ivy probably want to continue in that vein and make it clear to Apple and the world that this is what is happening. But I haven't heard that they have the type of relationship where they are eating lunch together every day. So they will construct it in some fashion.
