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Jony Ive is a hack without the firm hand of a Steve Jobs to keep his self-indulgent tendencies in check. He is responsible for the butterfly keyboard fiasco. Sc
by fmajid 5y ago
Jony Ive is a hack without the firm hand of a Steve Jobs to keep his self-indulgent tendencies in check. He is responsible for the butterfly keyboard fiasco. Scott Forstall was famously fired for refusing to apologize for the Apple Maps first release woes, but AFAIK Ive never has for those garbage key switches, and I’m sure there are multibillion dollar class-action lawsuits working their way through the legal system.
It is notable Apple has not named a new Chief Design Officer. Ive’s failure is so manifest he’s destroyed designers’ seat at the table in the company that was the poster child for design.
- illwrks 5y agoI don't disagree with anything you've said however I think if apple were to name a new chief then that person would have to be as good or better than his/her predecessor. That's a lot of pressure from the public on day 0.
- fmajid 5y agoWell, Cook made sure designers never hold sway and cause damage again the way Ive did, the top design position at Apple (which is not at the C-suite or SVP level when relatively minor specialties like Machine Learning are represented) has been split between two people, Alan Dye and Evans Hankey, and they report to COO Jeff Williams, a mechanical engineer by training: https://appleinsider.com/articles/19/06/28/who-are-alan-dye-and-evans-hankey-the-design-leads-replacing-jony-ive https://appleinsider.com/articles/19/06/28/who-are-alan-dye-...
- astrange 5y agoChief Design Officer isn't a "best designer" position, it's a "promoted through the roof" position where you actually do less work. Phil's current Apple Fellow title is the same. The "realest" position is SVP, which admittedly no designer currently is.