Jony Ive is leaving Apple

[Ellis Vener]

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/06/27/apples-chief-design-officer-jony-ive-is-leaving-the-company.html

He says he’s always wanted to be a freelance photographer. Says he looks forward to the challenge of joining a growth profession and has been really impressed with what he’s learned from lurking on the dpreview.com forums.

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[wklee]

They haven’t severed ties.

 

[Ellis Vener]

They haven’t severed ties.

 

[Antisthenes]

They haven’t severed ties.

Just made them skinnier.

How typical of an Ive design artifact to be structured like an awkward corporate dongle, that is best dispensed with.

 

[wklee]

From the interviews of him, Jony Ive is one of the nicest people around. Apparently.

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Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got
Till it's gone
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot
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[jpzundel]

Maybe Apple gets a chance now to design something different rather than parodies of an ipod since 2001.
His work was a dull copy of Dieter Rams, the real innovator at Braun.

 

[wklee]

There was a time when almost all things had a skeumorph look and then starting with iOS 7 and later things started looking "flat".

--
Never buy version 1.0 of anything.
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got
Till it's gone
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot
Joni Mitchell's Big Yellow Taxi

 

[wklee]

I wonder whose idea was it to put the mouse charging port where it is, at the bottom of the mouse? They could not have designed it to look like a regular mouse with a tail?

Jony designed the mouse.

--
Never buy version 1.0 of anything.
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got
Till it's gone
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot
Joni Mitchell's Big Yellow Taxi

 

[EricWN]

I wonder whose idea was it to put the mouse charging port where it is, at the bottom of the mouse? They could not have designed it to look like a regular mouse with a tail?

Jony designed the mouse.

Do we know that? There's a team of designers at the company, not just Jony.

I do agree on the placement of the port though, that was just pure silliness.

 

[wklee]

I wonder whose idea was it to put the mouse charging port where it is, at the bottom of the mouse? They could not have designed it to look like a regular mouse with a tail?

Jony designed the mouse.

Do we know that? There's a team of designers at the company, not just Jony.

I do agree on the placement of the port though, that was just pure silliness.

Here are 8 hits and misses from Ive.

https://www.theguardian.com/technol...ve-8-hits-and-8-misses-from-20-years-at-apple

I had forgotten about the “Hockey puck” mouse. And some of the other designs.

--
Never buy version 1.0 of anything.
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got
Till it's gone
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot
Joni Mitchell's Big Yellow Taxi

 

[Kumsal]

He will forever be grateful to Dieter Rams whose ideas he has copied.

 

[Kumsal]

I now use Microsoft Surface Arc Mouse, the mouse with the best design, I think.

 

[EricWN]

He will forever be grateful to Dieter Rams whose ideas he has copied.

I don’t think that the work of Ive is a copy of Brams. Heavily inspired for sure, but they apply some design ideas to other products that didn’t even exist back then.

 

[Kumsal]

You may be right, he was inspired by Rams.
He also had his own design handwriting, which I can not deny.
His obsession with thinness of devices at the expense of functionality could have ushered in his departure.

 

[wklee]

You may be right, he was inspired by Rams.
He also had his own design handwriting, which I can not deny.
His obsession with thinness of devices at the expense of functionality could have ushered in his departure.

Daring Fireball commentary:

https://daringfireball.net/2019/06/jony_ive_leaves_apple

 

[wklee]

Apple has pulled the sale of his book Designed by Apple in California from the Apple Store. He’s gone.

The book’s page description is still up but the purchase link is now invalid.

https://www.apple.com/designed-by-apple/

--
Never buy version 1.0 of anything.
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got
Till it's gone
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot
Joni Mitchell's Big Yellow Taxi

 

[ChrisLumix]

Apple has pulled the sale of his book Designed by Apple in California from the Apple Store. He’s gone.

The book’s page description is still up but the purchase link is now invalid.

https://www.apple.com/designed-by-apple/

Good job too. It was the ultimate vanity project and Steve Jobs is no longer spinning in his grave.

 

[wklee]

Apple has pulled the sale of his book Designed by Apple in California from the Apple Store. He’s gone.

The book’s page description is still up but the purchase link is now invalid.

https://www.apple.com/designed-by-apple/

Good job too. It was the ultimate vanity project and Steve Jobs is no longer spinning in his grave.

Steve Jobs had a dislike for the stylus. Apple Pencil 1 would not have gotten Jobs’ approval. The Pencil 2 at least, more sensibly, magnetically latches on to the surface of the iPad Pro 11” and 12.9” USB-C.

--
Never buy version 1.0 of anything.
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got
Till it's gone
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot
Joni Mitchell's Big Yellow Taxi

 

[EricWN]

Apple has pulled the sale of his book Designed by Apple in California from the Apple Store. He’s gone.

The book’s page description is still up but the purchase link is now invalid.

https://www.apple.com/designed-by-apple/

Good job too. It was the ultimate vanity project and Steve Jobs is no longer spinning in his grave.

Steve Jobs had a dislike for the stylus. Apple Pencil 1 would not have gotten Jobs’ approval. The Pencil 2 at least, more sensibly, magnetically latches on to the surface of the iPad Pro 11” and 12.9” USB-C.

 

[ChrisLumix]

Apple has pulled the sale of his book Designed by Apple in California from the Apple Store. He’s gone.

The book’s page description is still up but the purchase link is now invalid.

https://www.apple.com/designed-by-apple/

Good job too. It was the ultimate vanity project and Steve Jobs is no longer spinning in his grave.

Steve Jobs had a dislike for the stylus. Apple Pencil 1 would not have gotten Jobs’ approval. The Pencil 2 at least, more sensibly, magnetically latches on to the surface of the iPad Pro 11” and 12.9” USB-C.

Steve is also on record for changing his mind rather quickly. Just because he didn’t like something at one point doesn’t tell you much in the long run.

The company knew he used to talk down the stylus as they wanted to market a multitouch device at the time.

They call it pencil and not stylus likely because of Steve’s quotes about a the stylus.

I was actually referring to the Ive book not the stylus - Jobs would have hated any vanity project.