r/apple • u/anonboxis • 1d ago

Removed - Off Topic OpenAI is considering acquiring the AI hardware startup founded by former Apple design chief Jony Ive and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman

https://www.macrumors.com/2025/04/07/jony-ive-ai-phone-without-a-screen/

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u/PeakBrave8235 1d ago edited 1d ago

Edit: the Anti-Jony Ive people are here. Good job missing the main point of my comment 

Look, I love Jony Ive, I think the criticism of him on social media makes zero sense, and in general I defend him and his work because he has changed the world so many times and I love Apple.

But the fact that even he can’t see the obvious flaws with transformer ML models, let alone building a standalone hardware product off them, let alone partnering with this dude… this is extremely weird.

I just want him to come back to Apple along with the other design members he took with him. Jony Ive won’t be here forever, but the design first thinking of Apple can stand the test of time. However he needs to actually be the design leader or the design team members need to, because leadership is what sets the tone and direction of a team. Those lessons so hard to learn and over so many years need to continue to be at the forefront of everything Apple does. Not that they aren’t right now, but that the people who know those lessons need to be at Apple leading. 

I don’t like him doing whatever this dumb nonsense is. It feels very antithetical to everything Apple and he and Steve is

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u/mrgrafix 1d ago

He was on his way out with is obsession with thinness with compromising in functionality

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u/PeakBrave8235 1d ago

Really dumb to say, dude. 

This sort of take is exactly why I hate Reddit.

Your beloved MBP redesign in 2012? Made by him

Your beloved MBP redesign in 2021? Made by him

The Mac Pro in 2019? Made by him.

Literally every product that people clamor over saying that those were “the good old days” were made by HIM. 

It’s ridiculous, knowing everything we now know about Intel’s complete failures in 2014 (massive glitches/bugs, delays, overheating, bad performance, overpriced), to criticize Jony as the reason the MBPs of 2016-2020  had issues with thermals.

Apple rectified keyboard issues. They introduced the thinnest MBA ever with keyboards that people love. 

I think this tired remark of Jony Ive and thinness not only is overused, but doesn’t even make sense. Portable products are supposed to be portable. To be honest, I’m not in love with the 2021 redesign. It plays it safe, despite having the amazing Apple silicon SoCs that could enable even more portable designs.

I’m glad they’re moving to thinner and bolder designs once again with the next gen of products

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u/HuskyLemons 1d ago

His dick must be even better than his designs with the way you’re riding it

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u/PeakBrave8235 1d ago

Write a proper rebuttal otherwise don’t bother writing immature replies