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APPLE HAS PROMOTED Jonathan Ive, the British designer responsible for a number of the company’s most famous products, to chief design officer.
Ive, who was the company’s senior vice president of design and was involved in the development of products like the iPhone, iPad, iPod and Macbook, will start his new role from July.
His focus will expand beyond devices and include designing the Apple Stores and its new campus known as spaceship, a circular campus that will house 12,000 workers.
The news was first revealed to the Telegraph where Ive said he would still be in charge of both design and products. An internal memo to Apple employees states that some of the management roles will be split up between two other members from 1st July.
Richard Howarth, a member of the design team who contributed to each new iPhone and Mac release, will become vice president of industrial design while Alan Dye, who worked on iOS 7, iOS 8 and Apple Watch, will become vice president of user interface design.
In the memo, Apple CEO Tim Cook said the new role would mean Ive is “responsible for all of our design, focusing entirely on current design projects, new ideas and future initiatives.”
Jony is one of the most talented and accomplished designers of his generation, with an astonishing 5,000 design and utility patents to his name. His new role is a reflection of the scope of work he’s been doing at Apple for some time.
Apple continues to be the most valuable company in the world, worth roughly €690 billion. In its most recent quarter, overall revenue rose to €53.2 billion, beating expectations of €51.3 billion, and has a cash pile of €178 billion to work with.
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Fair play. He’s really brought beauty and function together over a number of years and contributed significantly to the mass appeal of Apples products.
All hail the new high priest to the deity of Apple.
Once again the Journal promoting the world’s greediest company.
You got to laugh. Just checked ur Twitter account and you have a retweet looking to win a Samsung Galaxy.
lol
And???? My point is that every week the journal promote apple by having some sort of article. If they want to promote business, have a weekly slot on irish companies. Spread the wealth with all this ‘free advertising’.
It’s the biggest tech company in the world therefore is news. Just move along if you’re not interested
Meeoowww……hahaha!!!
Apple doesn’t need promotion from the Journal. Hilarious.
This was reported on the BBC too. Why is this news?
Why did you read the article and comment?you’ve read it TWICE on two separate media outlets
Jake, racing to the front as usual
Why comment? Because I has a question.
Why read it? You must be very stupid if you think it isn’t possible to comment without reading.
It’s on bbc because he’s English. Big deal always when British people succeed at anything
And a bigger deal when they’re Irish.
I really wish that the people who only comment to berate The Journal would just move along. The Journal is what it is. Enjoy it and shaddup.
So have I…. I can’t wait to read my biography ‘coughs’
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