#395 - Why Jony Ive quit: troubling details emerge…
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🗓️ 5 July 2019
⏱️ 54 minutes
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This week: A new report details why Jony Ive is departing Apple, and it paints a troubling picture. Plus, Leander tells us about the “fiddle factor,” the unique quality that made Jony Ive our time’s greatest designer.
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Jony Ive’s absence from Apple caused iPhone X headaches
- A new report from the WSJ paints a bleak picture of Jony’s Ive’s departure, saying he’s been drifting away from the company for years, and it’s because they increasingly are not taking design seriously.
Tim Cook slams alleged rift with Jony Ive as ‘absurd’
Why Apple will miss Jony Ive’s fabulous ‘fiddle factor’
- The fiddle factor cuts to the heart of Jony Ive’s design genius. In a career spanning 30 years, no designer has been more successful at making computers friendly and approachable, largely by adding tactile elements to his designs.
- As a design student back in the 1980s, a teenage Jony Ive spent a semester with a design agency in London, the Roberts Weaver Group. One of his first projects was designing a new pen for Japan’s Zebra Co. Ltd., a pen-maker based in Tokyo.
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| 0:00.0 | The unexplained phenomena is hit in Moscow. |
| 0:05.0 | When you've got just 28 minutes to save the entire planet, |
| 0:10.0 | the clock is ticking. You better hope you got the right computer. |
| 0:17.0 | No, and welcome to talk to you. |
| 0:18.0 | No, and welcome to Cockocass The Best 30 Plus Minute Alpha Conversation |
| 0:26.8 | You're going to hear all week long. |
| 0:29.0 | I'm your host, Air Fun Alizer. |
| 0:30.3 | Join me today, in honor of America's birthday, he is joining us in a very patriotic flag-decorated |
| 0:36.3 | biking unitard, and you've never seen Old Glory look so good. |
| 0:40.8 | Leander Cany is here. I heard that outfit was barely legal. good. What about this holiday? That's funny because I think we had this conversation last year. |
| 0:55.0 | But I could completely forgotten. |
| 0:57.0 | I was just going to ask you if you feel personally conflicted being half American, half British, how you feel on this holiday. |
| 1:03.7 | Well, I get my red coat out and I, you know, march around for a bit and try to round people up and |
| 1:08.8 | and try to round them up. |
| 1:11.6 | Hey you, who's this guy? |
| 1:14.0 | You have your white wig on, right? |
| 1:15.2 | Just powder all over it, all over your face. |
| 1:17.4 | You're poking them with your bayonet. |
| 1:18.6 | And I'm trying to hush with them out. |
| 1:20.2 | Exactly. |
| 1:21.2 | And I say, hey, Johnny, what's going on, you're collolias? |
| 1:23.4 | You're awful collonious. |
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