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I would guess he is going to continue to be in charge of design for their flagship products for the foreseeable future.
No way, he's done, the part about him "consulting" is just a way to reassure the public that the split was amicable.
I suspect he had a hand in several recent Apple "successes" like extra thin keyboards that break easily, $999 monitor stands and not to forget, the cables that come apart easily. While his work was definitely important at Apple, I think he might have lost the needed balance when SJ left
(More than one long-time Apple employee has told me that they think Scott Forstall was nearly as good at this as Jobs was, and that it's quite possible some of Apple's more egregious form-over-function blunders in the last five or six years would have been avoided if Forstall was still on board. Forstall was admittedly the champion of skueomorphism, but I'd accept the silly linen backgrounds if it meant better keyswitches.)
This makes me think that he no longer finds his work compelling at Apple. Or Apple decided it’s time for a new leader, but wants things to have a soft landing.
Given his penchant for thinness over function, I hope this means we can have a thicker pro laptop again, with all the ports back and a more robust keyboard.
I for one would be sad if they went back on some of the supposedly bold moves they’ve pulled, to be honest. The only thing I wish is that they’d kill that silly lightning connector for the phones so I could have usb-c goodness there too!
I guess that’s just design for ya – it’s often divisive, especially if decisive.
Nothing in this post says Ive's new company will only work with Apple. Maybe he'll land Dell as a client..
20th Anniversary Mac, in Sir Jony's own words: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIFdBp8rbtA
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AMEN. I hope this jagoff's incredibly degrading influence on Apple's products can be reversed.
Yeah, the designer of the iMac, iPod, iPhone, iPad, Macbook really tanked the company with those.
The iconic designs were nearly direct lifts of Rams' work, and even extended to the apps.