“Fans of Apple and anyone following the stock had a moment of surprise early on Monday morning,” Dan Ritter reports for Wall St. Cheat Sheet. “For a short period, the executive profile for Senior Vice President of Design Jonathan Ive disappeared from Apple’s press website, prompting a surge of speculation that Ive had either quit or been fired.”
“Ive’s profile has since been reinstated, and AppleInsider noted early on that the landing page for his profile had never been taken down, just its thumbnail on the executive team page,” Ritter reports. “Apple’s public relations team has confirmed that the company was updating its executive profiles page when Ive’s profile disappeared.”
“So the disappearance was a false alarm, but the media’s knee-jerk reaction wasn’t totally unjustified,” Ritter reports. “In an interview with biographer Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs said that Ive ‘understands what we do at our core better than anyone. If I had a spiritual partner at Apple, it’s Jony.’ Ives’ relationship with Jobs and his resonance with the founder’s vision is essential for Apple.”
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Thank goodness the markets were closed today when this happened
A deliberate test of media hypersensitivity, to better calibrate Apple’s secrecy strategies in a world where everyone seems to be walking on #@$!& eggshells
Exactly.
I prefer the olden days when Apple was an underdog that was only occasionally getting kicked by the mean-old-men of the tech press. This hyper-vigilance of every minutia regarding Apple is beyond neurotic. Apple is attracting all the nut job OCD stress cases, whom I’d personally rather ignore. It’s too much work pointing out the ridiculous nature of them blether-fests every day. Obviously, I need to be less OCD analyzing all the analCyst rubbish.
Have to agree with that you know damn well it would have tanked over something unconfirmed and stupid.
Any excuse will do these days.
Tinfoil hat tells me there are only two possibilities:
1. Samsung’s naked short team has no idea what President’s Day is and launched their hack&short plan on the wrong day.
2. Grey Powell is in now charge of week-end web maintenance.
maybe they have grey powell running the weekend web maintenance updates.
And note to Apple: Any and all website tests should always be run on days when the stock market is CLOSED.
Don’t want to give the marginal investors and hair trigger analysts time to react in their typical ADD Neanderthal Barney Fife way.
Would the stock price have gone up or down?
The destroyer of iOS 7 gone? Oh, most definitely up. Dancing in the corridors of One Infinite Loop even.
How quickly people forget.
BLN is a Sumdung SPY. He must be terminated.
You really have become a tedious little shit, BLN. Everyone is bored senseless with your witless posturing.
Please do us all a real favour, and fuck off.
I’m short a British asshole to fill in for a jerk-a-thon. You’ll do nicely seeing how you fill the roles of jerk-off and asshole all in one villainous Limey skin.
Yep, BLN but… I give him some slack as I think he was trying to please his new boss – iOS 7 is all about Tim.
Thin Thinking.
Thin Type.
Thin Tim.
Makes sense.
“So the disappearance was a false alarm, but the media’s knee-jerk reaction wasn’t totally unjustified…”
So no one in the media has ever seen a web page glitch before?
Should be…
“So the disappearance was a false alarm, AND the media’s knee-jerk reaction WAS totally unjustified.”
Media’s reaction? I don’t think anyone outside of a few Apple rumor sites even reported this.
He will go sometime. Hopefully, he has groomed others to take his place. Not the end of the world if he did leave.
For some reason I read this as Dan Ritter reports for Wall Cheats.
“Dan Ritter reports for Wall St. Cheat…”
No doubt a sad day when and if Jony ever leaves, but really… I suppose there are no other people on the planet who can design products? No one is irreplaceable. Granted it will be different with someone else there just like with Tim at the helm, but sometimes different isn’t worse. Who knows, maybe the “next guy or gal” will be even better! “Always look on the bright side of life”
You and I do. The Wall Street will go bonko and shares will tank, even if they find a better designer.
he’s no SJ !
Too bad they didn’t issue the web page to their beta testers before releasing it to the public. 😉
For few minutes i thought he has been fired because of his ugly iOS7 icons…
thank goodness Market was closed yesterday!
imagine the stupid panic on the stock!
(if Apple’s ultimate employee – that saved Apple since 1998 iMac – were gone)