Can’t Apple’s design guru catch a break? After Jony Ive received a well-deserved promotion to become Apple’s chief design officer, some pundits misinterpreted the happy news as a bad omen.
Our own Leander Kahney reads the tea leaves completely differently: Ive’s promotion is nothing but good news for Apple.
In fact, elevating Ive’s status on the corporate totem pole means Apple will get even more great design work out of him. You can expect even more delightful, world-changing products from the guy who’s always emphasized technology’s most human elements.
Find out why this is definitely not the end of the Jony Ive era at Apple, in this week’s edition of Kahney’s Korner.
Lewis Wallace is the managing editor of Cult of Mac and author of our weekly newsletter, The Weekender.
He’s a San Francisco-based writer and editor specializing in technology and culture. He loves his iPhone, hates Siri, and appreciates any hardware that combines form and function.
Prior to Cult of Mac, he juggled words and ideas as culture editor at Wired.com, homepage editor at TechTV, news product manager at NBCi, copy editor at PC World, reporter at The (Hayward) Daily Review and editor in chief of EveryBody’s News in Cincinnati.
He earned a bachelor of general studies degree with a journalism certificate from the University of Cincinnati. While in school, he worked as the entertainment editor of The News Record and as editor in chief of Clifton Magazine.
He’s also a bass player, who’s recorded and performed around the United States with Those Darn Accordions, The Electric Boogie Dawgz and The Mad Maggies. When not writing, editing or laying down bass lines, he plays darts and serves on the board of the San Francisco Darts League.
5 responses to “Kahney’s Korner: Why Jony Ive’s promotion is fantastic news for Apple”
Fire this moron. He ruined the iOS!
@ NewHampshire That´s funny!
Jony Ive is a master of his game and deserves a promotion, in fact i would be surprised if one day he takes over the whole show.
IOS will eventually change OS X into it… in ways of design. Since the raise of mobile and touch interfaces, more and more people will use some mobile device most of the time (don’t they already?).
The slow seeping style of IOS into OS X will eventually make it unison. Certainly the last updates, proved that to be the tendency. It would be a clear step backwards if we went back to skewmorphism…
Cyber-punk interface? No, thank you.
fjhfgjmfg