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Or put another way: he wasn’t the sole person behind all of Apple’s successes or failures. Neither was Steve Jobs.

AI_lias said:

Good riddance. Maybe the ports will come back now, and better keyboards, upgradeability, repairability, and other common sense things that left lately. Sounds funny how he was the top design officer, but people think he shouldn’t be held accountable for all design decisions. 

Apple was already getting rid of upgradeability when Steve Jobs was still around. Decisions on upgradeability, ports etc. don’t just come from designers. Even the whole so-called obsession with thinness. Let’s not forget it was Steve Jobs who announced the MacBook Air by pulling it out of a Manila envelope and spent most of the intro talking about how thin it was. Oh and as far as repairability and upgradeability...go read an iFixit review of a Microsoft Surface product. They get lower scores than Apple products. Yet for some reason Microsoft doesn’t get nearly the grief Apple does.

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dblanch369 said:

Sell your stocks folks....

If you think Jony is the genius they purport him out to be then you must not know his past before we at NeXT arrived and saved Apple. The guy has a warehouse of bad ideas that went nowhere. Only after he met NeXT creative teams and Steve dictated several ideas did the ``boy genius'' surface.

What happened to those NeXT creative teams? Are many of them still at Apple?

I’m curious what NeXT, a software company, would have to do with industrial design.

andrewj5790 said:

And, of course, John “get off my lawn” Gruber begins the handwringing. 🤦🏻‍♂️

And everyone in the tech press kissing his ass tweeting what a great piece it was. No actually it was hot garbage.

rain22 said:

This is fantastic news!
He should have departed 7 years ago imo. 

Here's hoping for innovation again at Apple. 

Right, because Jony Ive was the only one responsible for innovation at Apple.