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Jony Ive Returns To Apple Design Management Role After Two Years (9to5mac.com)

Posted by msmash on from the dispatch dept.

Zac Hall, writing for 9to5Mac: Jony Ive, Apple's chief design officer, is returning to his management role within Apple's design group after handing off managerial duties in 2015. 9to5Mac noted that Ive's design deputies Dye and Haywarth were no longer listed on Apple's leadership page earlier today.

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  1. Have I been blaming the wrong guy? by 93+Escort+Wagon · · Score: 4, Interesting

    During the past couple years when Apple has come out with laptops without the ports I need, or phones without headphone jacks - I figured it was Jony Ive's fault. So was it actually these other guys making those decisions?

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    1. Re:Have I been blaming the wrong guy? by b0s0z0ku · · Score: 4, Interesting

      Jony Ive has only been out for 1-2 years -- you can blame him for Apple's watered-down hardware.

  2. Re:Well that's just terrific by b0s0z0ku · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Here's the thing. I've had laptop (both Mac and PC) motherboards fail more than oncde. If I didn't have a very current backup, I could still pop the hard drive or SSD out and retrieve my data with a $5 USB to SATA cable. With Apple, I'd have to beg an Apple store to retrieve my data, pay them if I was out of AppleDontCare, and have no guarantee that they even could. All for a savings of, what, $5? on a connector.

  3. Ugh, Jony Ive... by fyngyrz · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I'm greatly looking forward to a future full of function-follows-form from the good ol' days!

    Unless you're being sarcastic... I don't know why you would think that's in the cards; Jony Ive is the villain that took away the beautiful icons iOS and OS X / MacOS used to have and replaced them with dull, flat, information-culled pastels reminiscent of an interior decorator's shart, not to mention being the conceptual guy who was in authority when the clueless process that brought us the abortion that is the "trashcan" Mac Pro went down.

    Unless he's been off recovering from a head injury, this appears to bode very poorly for the future of everything Apple.

    It's looking more and more like a big windows tower lurks in my future. Damn it.

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