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Kara Swisher, one of the most revered technology journalists of our time, is going out with a bang at her very last Code Conference.Today, the journalist announced on Twitter that Tim Cook, Jony Ive, and Laurene Powell Jobs would be joining her for a discussion at Code 2022, the annual conference that features some of the top minds in the technology, business, and political industries.Swisher confirmed that this year's code, after twenty years of hosting the conference, would be her last. So, to celebrate her last…

Apple CEO Tim Cook has rubbished reports claiming that chief design officer Jony Ive quit the company after "being frustrated with Cook's alleged lack of interest in design".In a rare email sent to an NBC News reporter after the Wall Street Journal reported that "Ive had grown frustrated with Cook's leadership and alleged lack of interest in the design production process," the Apple CEO said: "The story is absurd. A lot of the reporting, and certainly the conclusions, just don't match with reality".Cook hardly rebuts news…

Jony Ive is officially out of Apple, three years after he left the first time according to a new report. Ive previously left Apple to start his own firm in 2019, but was signed on as a consultant immediately. Ive founded LoveFrom and then signed a $100 million contracting deal with Apple. That deal appears to have been for three years, with The New York Times now reporting that the contract has come to an end and that the pair have decided to go their separate ways. The reasons for that haven't been made public, but it…

Last updated: July 13th, 2022 at 16:18 UTC+02:00 Apple and Jony Ive are parting ways for good. This development will allow Ive, Apple’s ex-hardware designer, to work with companies that Apple deems as competitors. Jony Ive joined Apple in 1992. He was the leading designer for countless Apple products and contributed to the company’s massive success over the years. However, Jony Ive left the company in 2019 due to friction with Apple’s leadership and CEO Tim Cook. The designer’s frustrations with Apple’s change of…

Apple Inc has ended a consulting deal with former design chief Jony Ive, the New York Times reported on Tuesday.Citing sources, the newspaper reported that Ive's contract had come up for renewal and the parties agreed not to extend it. Ive, who left Apple in 2019, was a close confidant of the late Chief Executive Steve Jobs and spearheaded design work on the company's candy-colored Mac computers and the iPhone.Apple declined to comment on the report.After departing Apple, Ive remained a consultant for Apple and also…

Apple and Jony Ive are breaking up — and this time, according to The New York Times, it's for real. Ive left the tech giant in 2019 after over two decades and formed his own company called LoveFrom, which counted Apple as its first and primary client. The publication said that both parties agreed not to extend their contract in the weeks leading up to its renewal and to stop working together for the first time since the 90's.  Ive was a close collaborator of Steve Jobs and is credited with designing the translucent,…

Apple has ended its consulting agreement with former chief design officer Jony Ive, according to The New York Times. Ive left Apple in 2019 to start an independent design company called LoveFrom, and in a press release, Ive had said he looked forward to working with Apple “for many years to come.” Apple signed a contract at the time with Ive valued north of $100 million, though it “restricted Mr. Ive from taking on work that Apple found competitive,” The New York Times reports. But now, three years later, it seems Ive…

When Apple announced the Apple Watch in 2014, it did so at De Anza in Cupertino, a few miles down the road from its then-headquarters on Infinite Loop. It’s sort of a sacred site for Apple, the place Steve Jobs debuted both the original Macintosh in 1984 and the iMac in 1998. And on the 30th anniversary of the Macintosh, for the first potentially game-changing product since the death of Steve Jobs, Apple — and Jony Ive, Apple’s chief designer and Jobs’ longtime collaborator — wanted to pull out all the stops. Well, not…