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Longtime Industrial Designer Leaving Apple's Design Team
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Sad to see this good designer leave wish him much success on his new venture.
Apple can't make things thicker, because MacRumors stole all the thicker - they post comments on this forum.
Don't forget $6B for AQuantive (knee-jerk reaction to Google acquiring DoubleClick). Divested nearly all of AQuantive and took a write-off valuing the purchase at $100mm if I remember right. Man Ballmer was a disaster. But he is a billionaire sports owner now. Melissa got a pretty nice parachute for running Yahoo into the ground. Nice work if you can get it, but you gotta get into the club first.
Well,, we all have to go at some point..
If Ive does go as well, u can say goodbye to good products.
Its more of a question of "If u bring in new people, what will change as a result" ?
Which grown adult uses "u" in place of "you"? Looks like baby speak...
- you did GO to school... right? If you are 14 years old, forgive me - ignore my comment.
...or maybe he saw an opportunity to feel challenged again. Working for "#1" for that many years could leave anyone feel like - "where do I go from here?" Answer: A new career elsewhere.
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No matter what your age is - ignore the comment. For Christ's sake, get off your high horse over how other people talk and/or express themselves. You....nope....breathing in, breathing out....I'm not going to say what I would really like to say.Which grown adult uses "u" in place of "you"? Looks like baby speak...
Hey Jony, can I design the Mac Mini with easily replaceable HD and RAM ?
NO
How about a new Mac Pro with lots of storage inside with easy swapping HDs and cards ?
NO
How about adding a few ports to the MacBook and make the battery last longer ?
NO
How about replacing the wood keyboard we installed in the MacBook lines?
NO
How about putting back a jack into the iPhone ?
NO
ok, I am out of here !
NO
How about a new Mac Pro with lots of storage inside with easy swapping HDs and cards ?
NO
How about adding a few ports to the MacBook and make the battery last longer ?
NO
How about replacing the wood keyboard we installed in the MacBook lines?
NO
How about putting back a jack into the iPhone ?
NO
ok, I am out of here !
"No matter what your age is - ignore the comment. For ***** sake, get off your high horse over how other people talk and/or express themselves. You....nope....breathing in, breathing out....I'm not going to say what I would really like to say."
Highly ironic, spoken as you look down from yours!
LOLDouble standards eh? Or were you SO busy typing your frantic "peace keeper" speech, you missed the utter hypocrisy entirely?
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Jony Ive has (UN)common sense - he wouldn't stoop to a "no", he'd just smile - Apple have better, more long-term and thoroughly thought-out, deeply considered ways... it's just that the impatient public are too dumb to understand long term vision and subtle design genius.
Cue in all the hate.
People come in and go in companies. 20 years can make an employee less open to new ideas. Sometimes fresh new people are needed to rejuvenate a company, and sometimes the old ones need to leave for the new ones to grow.
But who am I kidding. People here are still stuck with their beige desktops and want Apple to remain in the rut to be another Asus/Acer. Color me surprise.
People come in and go in companies. 20 years can make an employee less open to new ideas. Sometimes fresh new people are needed to rejuvenate a company, and sometimes the old ones need to leave for the new ones to grow.
But who am I kidding. People here are still stuck with their beige desktops and want Apple to remain in the rut to be another Asus/Acer. Color me surprise.
ATTENTION! ATTENTION! CALLING ALL MACRUMORS ARMCHAIR "DESIGNERS" - A VACANCY HAS OPENED UP AT APPLE R&D - QUICK - FIRE OFF AN APPLICATION...
Oh wait, that would require logic, sense, effort, talent, and actually having QUARTER of a clue what the **** you are talking about.
Jony Ive is the man behind the iconic design language of Apple's products. Apple, as a brand, would not be revered as highly as it is today without the work he's done in creating luxurious hardware.
The day Ive leaves the Apple Design Team will be one of the biggest hits in talent that Apple's ever taken. Things may never be the same for them, as finding visionary design talent such as him would be next to impossible.
Jony Ive is probably the last person I'd want to see leave Apple. Next to Craig Federeigi.
"No matter what your age is - ignore the comment. For ***** sake, get off your high horse over how other people talk and/or express themselves. You....nope....breathing in, breathing out....I'm not going to say what I would really like to say."
Highly ironic, spoken as you look down from yours!
Double standards eh? Or were you SO busy typing your frantic "peace keeper" speech, you missed the utter hypocrisy entirely?
I stand by my comment. Your post was unnecessarily crude, and I called you out on it in the same way.
Wait, what company are we discussing again?
And this comes from what factual knowledge about what it's like to work for Apple at that level?
Jony is a brilliant hardware designer. He is a terrible software designer. But he doesn't relealize the latter, nor that in software design, usability is actually pretty important. Many of us are still bitter that he took over software design because iOS 10 is only just finally almost as usable as iOS was prior to his leadership. It's still tacky and sterile looking though.
Being a designer at Apple has to be the easiest job in the world. For every product you do the same thing "Make is square with rounded corners." and you are done. There is not much to do.
If you want challenging work go make cars or buildings or even cookware. But iPhones? any creative designer would be bored to death.
If you want challenging work go make cars or buildings or even cookware. But iPhones? any creative designer would be bored to death.
This is exactly what happened. Tim Cook has turned Apple into a rehash company designing the same products again and again. No wonder he felt like leaving. Pushing the boundaries of design is not comething Cook cares about. It's all about profit margins and costs to Cook
With two experienced, long-time, top designers leaving in barely a year, it makes you wonder if that's just a coincidence, or if there's perhaps 'trouble in Paradise'?