Everyone rushes to blame Ive but he just made some shitty keyboards. I just don't see how it would have been Ive's decision to stick with that keyboard for four years, or Ive's decision to deny keyboard issues for the first six months, or Ive's decision to make repairs onerously expensive, or Ive's decision to only replace their faulty keyboards for four years - check your calendar 2016 MBP owners.
Ive's design-led product development was the problem. Form over Function, which is exactly what all the Apple-haters said Apple was (though we knew better of course). Yes, Ive was there a long time, and he made some vital and essential contributions, but what Jony wanted to do was never the whole story. Ive unleashed has been an unmitigated shitshow.
Yes, maybe the correct response was to promote the engineering mindset more, and put the ID guys back in their box. But then again, from what I recall "Ive left" so in all liklihood he was told he couldn't have it all his way anymore, threw a hissy-fit and walked.
Ive was just one voice among many executives, if anyone is culpable it's the CEO and/or board that exacerbated a bad keyboard with years of bad policy.
Apple's bad policy choices have survived Ive's departure too. Apple is still selling computers they know they might have to replace under "lemon laws" in many jurisdictions. Apple is still investing in impossible-to-repair laptops while fighting "right to repair" legislation.
Problem is the other executives gave him leeway to steer product development as he saw fit. It's a side effect of Jobs' passing that he didn't have the counterbalancing voices. You could blame the executive team I suppose, but you cant really blame people for "not being Steve".
When the other executives decided to speak up it was Ive's decision to leave when he was told he couldn't have things his way any more.
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[ 3.3 ms ] story [ 18.8 ms ] threadYes, maybe the correct response was to promote the engineering mindset more, and put the ID guys back in their box. But then again, from what I recall "Ive left" so in all liklihood he was told he couldn't have it all his way anymore, threw a hissy-fit and walked.
Apple's bad policy choices have survived Ive's departure too. Apple is still selling computers they know they might have to replace under "lemon laws" in many jurisdictions. Apple is still investing in impossible-to-repair laptops while fighting "right to repair" legislation.
That's what I said!
Problem is the other executives gave him leeway to steer product development as he saw fit. It's a side effect of Jobs' passing that he didn't have the counterbalancing voices. You could blame the executive team I suppose, but you cant really blame people for "not being Steve".
When the other executives decided to speak up it was Ive's decision to leave when he was told he couldn't have things his way any more.