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The Talk Show With John Gruber

121: ‘He Was Sort of Anti-Golf’ With Guest Rene Ritchie

The Talk Show With John Gruber

John Gruber

Technology

3.63.6K Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2015

⏱️ 138 minutes

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Summary

Special guest Rene Ritchie returns to the show. Topics includes Jony Ive’s promotion to Chief Design Officer and the implications for Apple; the differences in Apple’s internal design culture now that industrial and user interface design are under one roof; Google’s announcements at their I/O developer conference last week in San Francisco, including Google Photos; “machine learning”; Apple replacing the much-maligned discoveryd with good old mDNSResponder in the latest Yosemite developer beta; our thoughts on the space black Apple Watch with link bracelet; and more.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I don't even know where to start. What do you want to start with?

0:02.8

Johnny Ive

0:03.8

Johnny Ive I guess that's probably historically the biggest news of the week so we could just talk about our new black watches

0:14.6

So Monday Memorial Day U.S. Holiday

0:21.9

I was just I

0:25.1

So did not know what to make sense of this when it hit a story came out in the telegraph in

0:31.0

the United Kingdom

0:33.6

written by Stephen Frye who

0:36.6

Though I don't I have some complaints about the article is a wonderful you know one of the world's most

0:43.7

beloved

0:45.8

figures I mean he's a comedian actor writer longtime apple fan

0:51.0

wrote a profile and I guess you'd call it a profile. I don't know even the headline is weird

0:56.1

It's the headline is when Stephen Frye met Johnny Ive the self-confessed tech geek talks to apples newly promoted chief design officer

1:07.0

In an exclusive interview in which Ives promotion is revealed for the first time Stephen Frye meets Johnny Ive and his boss

1:13.3

Apple chief executive Tim Cook to talk spaceships design and Steve Jobs

1:18.2

and

1:20.2

so you know

1:23.4

So part of the news it's it's sort of a first-person account of hanging out with Johnny Ive and Tim Cook

1:28.6

Which in and of itself is interesting but to me the and the part that's just odd to me is that this this is how Apple chose to

1:36.3

unveil the

1:38.9

What would you call it the

1:40.9

executive change which is that Johnny Ive has been promoted from senior vice president of design to chief design officer

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