“Ordinarily,” I wrote, “if a billionaire chief executive officer of a public company offers to buy a company, the odds that he is kidding are quite low. At the time, I assumed that, as with Tesla, he was doing a bit. Why not? Musk seems to get a lot of joy out of using Twitter, and pretending to buy Twitter is a good way to create drama on Twitter. So this April, Musk announced that he wanted to buy Twitter Inc. The One Good Thing About the Elon Musk Twitter Acquisition Saga: Matt Levine’s Coverage ★ Looking forward, science offers us our only hope that we’ll have a forward to look to. Looking back, science extends our vision to the origin of time itself.
It’s always exciting to see new images like these, but a win for science feels especially good right now. First Images From NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope ★ Strategically, I think Apple would have preferred to let the dissolution of this partnership go unnoticed. Not a strategic leak, necessarily, but perhaps just someone at Apple who has Mickle’s ear. The begrudgingness regarding LoveFrom’s high consulting fees certainly makes it sound like the leak came from Apple.
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Update 2: A better question: Which side leaked this to Mickle? I’m thinking it was someone at Apple, not LoveFrom. This story in The New York Times is the first a lot of people inside Apple have heard about the purported breakup. Update: I’m hearing, from a few sources, that LoveFrom’s involvement with Apple has been more than symbolic over the past three years - which makes sense! - and that Apple folks have been reviewing new product designs with Ive as recently as a few months ago. It remains unclear (to me at least) how much Ive (and LoveFrom) have been involved with Apple over the last three years, so it’s unclear whether the lapsing of this formal consulting agreement is largely symbolic, or if it marks a true parting of the ways. Needing Apple’s clearance, these people said. Ive wanted the freedom to take on clients without Ive and had grownįrustrated after several of its designers left to join Mr. Questioned how much the company was paying Mr. In recent weeks, with the contract coming up for renewal, the Headset that it is expected to ship next year, the people said. Ive from taking on work that Apple foundĬompetitive and ensured that the designer would inform theĭevelopment of future products, such as an augmented-reality Primary client, people with knowledge of the agreement said. LoveFrom, the iPhone maker signed a multiyear contract with him Ive left Apple in 2019 to start his own design firm, Only new product category in recent years, the Apple Watch.
To two people with knowledge of their contractual agreement,Įnding a three-decade run during which the designer helped defineĮvery rounded corner of an iPhone and guided development of its Ive and Apple have agreed to stop working together, according Tripp Mickle, with a scoop for The New York Times:
Tuesday, 12 July 2022 NYT: Consulting Agreement Ends Between Apple and Jony Ive’s LoveFrom ★
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