Jony Ive shakes up Apple’s software design group

Re:Jony Ive shakes up Apple’s software design group by EGreg on Wednesday April 09, 2014 @06:40PM (#7562994)

OK I omitted a word assuming most people would know what I meant.

Steve Jobs HAS run Apple like a cult of personality.

Steve Jobs appointed Ive head of everything hardware-design-related and made him untouchable on purpose. He groomed him to lead design at Apple, which is the major department.

Steve Jobs would have vehemently disagreed with Ive about skeumorphism and probably wouldn't let him create iOS 7 this way, or if it happened, would chew him out the way he did Forstall, even though he liked him.

That said, the reason Ive is now telling everyone it's his way or the highway is a direct extension of how Steve Jobs ran the company. Get it?

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Re:Jony Ive shakes up Apple’s software design group by fredgrott on Wednesday April 09, 2014 @07:27PM (#7563226)

But that was not Steve Jobs..your over-simplifying things as there were times where standing up to Steve was not only encouraged but respected

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Re:Jony Ive shakes up Apple’s software design group by EGreg on Wednesday April 09, 2014 @08:24PM (#7563469)

Although I don't think that your point disproves mine, I'd love to learn about the times that standing up to Jobs was respected and rewarded. Genuinely want to have more examples of this.

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