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Re:MacBook Pro 14-inch and MacBook Pro 16-inch by bmitc on Monday October 18, 2021 @04:03PM (#28910858)
As far as I understand, he was absent from about 2015 on. There was an article, which I can't find right now, that discussed the mess this left the design team in. He basically retired to his home, and he would require the design team to come present to him at some local place (he wouldn't go to Apple). Then he'd give zero feedback. (This is from my recollection of the article.)

Pretty telling since that was sort of the heyday of Apple's devices having all sorts of conflicting designs.

Edit: I think this is the article: https://www.wsj.com/articles/jony-ive-is-departing-apple-but...

With a summary at: https://appleinsider.com/articles/19/07/01/jony-ives-departu...

Furthermore, it's hard to imagine Ive and Ferrari gelling. Ive's style is about as diametrically opposed from Italian design as I can think of. I characterize his design as character-less, something Italian designers don't go for.

Re:MacBook Pro 14-inch and MacBook Pro 16-inch by bombcar on Monday October 18, 2021 @07:23PM (#28913112)
He may have been hired to sit in his home and not design anything - for the name only.
Re:MacBook Pro 14-inch and MacBook Pro 16-inch by bmitc on Monday October 18, 2021 @08:57PM (#28913752)
I get the feeling that it's part ego from Ive and part Cook actually not caring about design as Ive mentioned.