Jony Ive will provide leadership and direction for Human Interface (HI) across the company in addition to his role as the leader of Industrial Design. His incredible design aesthetic has been the driving force behind the look and feel of Apple’s products for more than a decade. – Apple Inc. press release, October 29, 2012
“For all of Ive’s incalculable impact on Apple’s products since the late 1990s, he’s been a hardware person; other people have run the software for Macs, iPhones, iPads and other devices,” Harry McCracken writes for TIME Magazine. “Generally speaking, the arrangement seems to have worked well — certainly, Apple has had the smoothest integration of hardware and software of any company in its field.”
“Now Ive will call the shots for the whole Apple interface experience,” McCracken writes. “To my knowledge, the only other Apple employee who exercised that responsibility in the past was Steve Jobs… The bottom line: Ive has always been one of the most important people at Apple, but with this reshuffling, he gets the opportunity to become the most important person at Apple. That makes this the most important thing that’s happened at the company in the post-Jobs era.”
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[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Zulkifli” for the heads up.]
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