Jony Ive leaving Apple after nearly 30 years to start new design firm

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Apple’s chief design officer Jonathan Ive is departing the company, bringing an end to a tenure spent crafting some of technology’s most influential products, including the iPhone. Ive is leaving his official role at Apple “to form an independent design company which will count Apple among its primary clients.” The company is called LoveFrom, and Ive will be joined by famed designer Marc Newsom on the new venture. Despite stepping down from his executive position, Ive and Apple both claim he will still work “on a range of projects with Apple.”

https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/27/18761736/jony-ive-apple-leave-iphone-chief-design-officer-lovefrom-company-quit

[FATCAT 60,886]

Oh god Apple is about to be a mess

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1 minute ago, FATCAT said:

Oh god Apple is about to be a mess

He’s still gonna work with Apple tho

[Nino 12]

Spread your creative wings 

[Epione 10,896]

Jumping ship before it drowns, smart move. 

[Zander 14,944]

He might of been head of design but he essentially handed responsibilities to the rest of his design team for the past couple of years.  He's just been the face of Apple's design therefore automatically  gets the credit, so in reality nothing is really going to change. 

[SHALLOW 16,469]

47 minutes ago, FATCAT said:

Oh god Apple is about to be a mess

Well, it is already a mess imo. Iphone got so boring. The UI hasn't changed since 2013. The design of the new Iphones lasts for like 4 years. They need a change. 

[Nemo 4,410]

53 minutes ago, Epione said:

Jumping ship before it drowns, smart move.

Apple has been around since the 1970's and changed the world at least four times. Give them a little credit.

[TimisaMonster 31,073]

Hopefully the get better designs now lol

[Florian 20,017]

8 minutes ago, Nemo said:

Apple has been around since the 1970's and changed the world at least four times. Give them a little credit.

Well... You can thank Microsoft for the financial drip or Apple would have disappeared in the late 90s

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1 hour ago, Epione said:

Jumping ship before it drowns, smart move. 

Apple is the definition of to big to fail  

[Nemo 4,410]

15 hours ago, Florian said:

Well... You can thank Microsoft for the financial drip or Apple would have disappeared in the late 90s

Yeah, actually that's a myth. Microsoft put $150 million into Apple... at a time when Apple was worth $2.5 billion, with $1.2 billion in cash. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Apple_Inc.#Microsoft_deal