Jony Ive Said to Be 'As Connected to Product Design as Ever' Following Speculation About His Role

[wesk702]

Ive didn't design the Emojis.

Lol, I was talking about the Christmas tree he helped decorate this year for that hotel, where he decorated the room but just left the tree plain.

 

[Ramius]

"Here at Apple, we take great pride in our dongles. And now we are infact introducing, the biggest dongle yet" -Jony Ive​

 

[michaelant]

I used to love reading Gruber's blogs. He has a lot of insight, and obvious connections. Unfortunately, I had to bail on my bookmark for his site. Trying to catch up on the tech industry, but getting political lectures instead was enough to turn me off. Same thing with Marco Arment. It's like when entertainers put on a concert and go on rants.

That's a fair point. He's surely going to lose some of his audience with his recent focus on politics. Though, he's always said that Daring Fireball was just an outlet for what he's interested in, not necessarily a tech-exclusive site. I align with him politically, but I can easily see where people don't want that stuff to mix. It's not that hard to skip over that stuff, though. I just pass over some of his posts about design and typography, etc. He's got an entertaining and astute voice to his writing, so I'm a fan.

 

[Essaux]

I wish I'd met some androids to compare him too...

Is that you Rick?

Hey, at least he doesn't wear velour jump suits any more:
What I'll miss if he leaves, are those videos where he makes commonly used industrial methods sound amazing. Like that one about making cases for the Apple Watch, which is the same method used for millions of other watch cases. Or the trashcan Mac case, which is the same extrusion method used to make millions of cooking pots.

And, of course, as an American, I'd miss the lovely British "aluminium" pronunciation

That sweater, though. #StyleIcon

 

[Urban Joe]

Talk about back peddling? Would luv to know what happened behind the scenes.

FWIW Cook is doing to Apple the same thing Ballmer did to Microsoft. He seems pretty arrogant so I doubt he will do the right thing and step aside.