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Jony Ive's Involvement at Apple Reportedly Tapered After the Original Apple Watch Launched in 2015
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That's highly speculative and borderline slanderous without specific evidence.
I think that’s going away and skeuomorphism is making a comeback. Have you seen the screen shot mark up in iOS 13?
Designing is not difficult, not like he (Ivy) is the best designer, there are a lot of good designers and good designed product in the market, even from unknown small companies......But.. telling the team and the company to put a notch on the screen, to the 10th anniversary phone, the only phone, for the whole year, betting 60% of the companies revenue on it! Mind you, IT IS NOT SOMETHING EVERYONE CAN DO THIS... THIS IS IVY.
Excitement about new Apple designed computers ended for me around 2006. Loved the PowerBook G4, was excited then for every new release. I owned the original iPod and was excited for new products, watching all the keynotes. Now I’m quite happy not having the latest and greatest... my 2018 MacBook Pro is great but somethings missing in design that’s keeping me from loving it.
Having stressed myself out so much it weakened my system to the point where I nearly died almost a year ago, I get how much physical and emotional drain stress can put on a person.
Yes, the design apathy of past four years makes sense now. That’s all I will say, as I’ve commented enough about my beefs with Apple’s design these past few years, now the most important thing -imo- is fix the problematic hardware and the bugs in the software. Once they do this, then Apple can start experimenting with designs again.
Yes, the design apathy of past four years makes sense now. That’s all I will say, as I’ve commented enough about my beefs with Apple’s design these past few years, now the most important thing -imo- is fix the problematic hardware and the bugs in the software. Once they do this, then Apple can start experimenting with designs again.
"Yeah Mate, sounds awesome, but can we make it even thinner?"
That will not be heard any longer. Thank you
That will not be heard any longer. Thank you
Not really. That has more to do with the lack of focus on desktop computing. They aren’t pouring money into that segment, hence no new designs.
I feel like a lot of people that are glad to see him go and wishing him good riddance missed that Apple will be a giant client of his new design firm.
Sure, let's replace him with ... It is interesting that every senior executive that left Apple, and who were handpicked by Steve, have had no real success outside Apple. It was Apple that let them flourish. But it is also true that many executives brought into Apple after Steve died were not a good fit. Apple does need a refresh. Many of Apple's most creative decisions came when the top people were in their 30s and 40s. After Schiller goes, Federighi, Riccio, Cue and Cook, who will succeed them? These are the old guard faces that are left, and no new faces are in sight. Are there people within Apple that can take over, or do they need to get those people from outside Apple?
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Can we all agree to stop with the Steve Jobs hero worship? He was a visionary who helped create great products, but there are other people with good ideas too. Steve didn’t do everything by himself.
I think Ive is responsible for many bad decisions since his involvement in the company. remember the $10,000 Iwatch. That was his idea. The $$2,500 MBP with a silly LED bar! His idea. The $350 Homepod speaker! His idea. Every single one of those ideas were terrible and exposed Apple's greed more than User friendliness. Also I think Tim Cook is taking the company into a terrible direction. Apple is falling behind on innovation, playing catch up to Samsung and others. Selling $1,500 Iphones just to name one. obsessing with LGBTQ issues.Tim is a pacifist and not a leader. He is better as a follower and was the worst person to fellow Job's aggressive and 'get it done yesterday' style of leadership. History will prove that within the next three years.
Material is just a name. The google flat style was already in vogue when iOS 7 was announced.
https://gigaom.com/2013/06/10/much-...ers-but-apple-elegantly-puts-it-all-together/
As I said on the original thread yesterday and now here is the proof for all that this was years in the making and we have been seeing the design from the new team for a while. So no , not much is gonna change so ya'll can stop with the trash talk line "hopefully apple design will get better".
From the Bloomberg article :
"This has been a long time in the making," according to one of the people, who asked not to be identified because they aren’t authorized to discuss personnel moves. "He’s been at Apple over 25 years, and it’s a really taxing job. It’s been an extremely tense 25 years for him at Apple and there’s a time for everyone to slow down."
Initially, not much will change, because Apple has been operating with partial input from Ive for a few years, someone close to the team said.
From the Bloomberg article :
"This has been a long time in the making," according to one of the people, who asked not to be identified because they aren’t authorized to discuss personnel moves. "He’s been at Apple over 25 years, and it’s a really taxing job. It’s been an extremely tense 25 years for him at Apple and there’s a time for everyone to slow down."
Initially, not much will change, because Apple has been operating with partial input from Ive for a few years, someone close to the team said.
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I wonder if Ive is ready for new challanges as well. How many times can you redesign a phone and feel fulfilled?
Why would Jony Ive want sympathy from you? A talented powerful, wealthy industrial designer who worked with Tim to build Apple into a gargantuan powerhouse?
I really hope that turns out to be true. Apple is much worse off without him and his designs.