Apple design chief Jony Ive temporarily disappears from executive leadership directory [u]

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  • Reply 41 of 77
    MacPromacpro Posts: 19,873member
    peter236 wrote: »
    The chief designer has not made major changes to the design of the iPhone since iPhone 4, what do you expect? The lack of creativity has allowed the competition to increase the lead.

    I assume you have an iPhone 4 and an iPhone 5s in front of you to compare them. Or did you forget the /s tag?
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  • Reply 42 of 77
    crowleycrowley Posts: 10,453member
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by peter236 View Post



    The chief designer has not made major changes to the design of the iPhone since iPhone 4, what do you expect?

    Apart from the weight, thickness, length, material, the entire back plate, antenna, headphone position, speaker grille, sync/charge connector, and probably more besides.

     

    Yeah, you're right, they're all minor right?  Major would be... what?  Making the phone spherical?

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  • Reply 43 of 77
    rogifanrogifan Posts: 10,669member
    LOL at Apple PR saying this was "not a big deal ". Seriously? One of your most valuable employees goes missing from your executive leadership page and it's not a big deal? In what universe?
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  • Reply 44 of 77
    herbapouherbapou Posts: 2,228member
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by peter236 View Post



    The chief designer has not made major changes to the design of the iPhone since iPhone 4, what do you expect? The lack of creativity has allowed the competition to increase the lead.

     

    It does look pretty much the same from a distance with incremental improvements like faster/lighter, but there was some "non incremetal" improvements like the Retina screen and the touch ID. 

     

    In terms of screen size, I would like a bigger screen too, but its not ground breaking innovation, but at least other devices wont have that "edge" anymore.

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  • Reply 45 of 77
    kibitzerkibitzer Posts: 1,114member
    I think the middle one is 'Bono'? from U2. Dunno who the one on the left is.
    -WHOOSH-
    I guess if you don't know Jony or Bono or Marc, you don't know Jack.

    "Blessed Are the Clueless, for They Shall Inherit the Thread." :D
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  • Reply 46 of 77
    gqbgqb Posts: 1,934member
    AI needs to either pull this item completely or relegate it to a clearly disproven footnote under a huge correction. Thank god markets are closed today. Complete runs on a stock are made from such irresponsible reporting.
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  • Reply 47 of 77
    fallenjtfallenjt Posts: 4,057member
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    Originally Posted by Rogifan View Post





    And what design changes has the competition made besides making the screen bigger? How difficult is that?

    Agree. To some, design change is to make screen bigger. The truth is that some iPhone competitors made small phones like iPhone and these worked like $hit, so they had to increase the phone size to upgrade hardware for it to work better. 

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  • Reply 48 of 77
    nkalunkalu Posts: 315member
    It must have been a mistake somehow. Apple should make a statement to clarify and kill these speculations.
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  • Reply 49 of 77
    rogifanrogifan Posts: 10,669member
    Hmm...interesting...Apple just happened to post 5 new job reqs for the Human Interface Group today. I remember reading that the HIG group was around ~20 or so employees. Unless most of them left after Forstall, that group has nearly doubled based on the number of job reqs posted in the last year or so.

    [IMG]http://i62.tinypic.com/wm08xy.jpg[/IMG]
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  • Reply 50 of 77
    dysamoriadysamoria Posts: 3,430member
    I don't hold ill will to the guy, but I kinda hoped that it might be a sign that he's been taken away from having any GUI design leadership...
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  • Reply 51 of 77
    nkalu wrote: »
    It must have been a mistake somehow. Apple should make a statement to clarify and kill these speculations.

    I don't think they need to. They'll end up responding to every tiny bit of moronic speculation that hits the web or Twitter.
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  • Reply 52 of 77
    How is this news? You are better than this...
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  • Reply 53 of 77
    kibitzer wrote: »

    I guess if you don't know Jony or Bono or Marc, you don't know Jack.

    "Blessed Are the Clueless, for They Shall Inherit the Thread." :D

    I now know that the man on the left is called Marc and, judging from your comment, I don't need to know anything more about him.
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  • Reply 54 of 77
    rogifanrogifan Posts: 10,669member
    dysamoria wrote: »
    I don't hold ill will to the guy, but I kinda hoped that it might be a sign that he's been taken away from having any GUI design leadership...
    so he gets one shot at non-hardware design and that's it?
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  • Reply 55 of 77
    kibitzerkibitzer Posts: 1,114member
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by Benjamin Frost View Post





    I now know that the man on the left is called Marc and, judging from your comment, I don't need to know anything more about him.

    <img class=" src="http://forums-files.appleinsider.com/images/smilies//lol.gif" />

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  • Reply 56 of 77
    techguy911 wrote: »
    Yeah but you don't trial and error update the production website of a Fortune 500 company.  Changes should go to a staging website, approved by an editor, approved by a QA team, then pushed to production.

    I also never understood why the entire store needs to be taken completely down for hours just to update products.  
    I really wonder if they do that simply for the drama of it. Anytime the store goes offline it garners attention.
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  • Reply 57 of 77
    sockrolidsockrolid Posts: 2,789member
    Easily explained. Ive is clearly hinting at a new ultra-minimal design paradigm for iOS 8.
    So simple, so intuitive that you don't even see it. Nearly invisible, in fact.
    Of course, you tell a web designer to do that to your executive profile and they'll just comment things out.
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  • Reply 58 of 77
    jungmarkjungmark Posts: 6,928member
    techguy911 wrote: »
    Yeah but you don't trial and error update the production website of a Fortune 500 company.  Changes should go to a staging website, approved by an editor, approved by a QA team, then pushed to production.

    I also never understood why the entire store needs to be taken completely down for hours just to update products.  

    It's called anticipation and is brilliant. What other web store can afford to shut down their website for a few hours.
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  • Reply 59 of 77
    evilution wrote: »
    He's English.
    We don't smile into a camera unless we are drunk.
    rogifan wrote: »
    Ok, then take a picture of him when he's drunk. :D

    That's what he looks like in the group shot... Drunk.
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  • Reply 60 of 77
    flaneurflaneur Posts: 4,526member
    rogifan wrote: »
    LOL at Apple PR saying this was "not a big deal ". Seriously? One of your most valuable employees goes missing from your executive leadership page and it's not a big deal? In what universe?

    They really don't understand what it's like out here, with the constant nervous gibbering, do they?
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