Yesterday, we reported that Apple’s chief design officer, Sir Jony Ive, is leaving the corporate after 30 years. Jony Ive is planning to begin a brand new design firm by finish of this 12 months. Apple CEO Tim Cook has despatched out a memo to Apple staff relating to Ive’s departure. Tim Cook talked about that Jony Ive’s contributions are legendary and he performed a central function in Apple’s revival. Read his full memo under.
Team,
I’m writing to let you realize about some adjustments to the ET involving two individuals who embody Apple’s values and whose work will assist outline Apple’s future.
I’m blissful to announce that Sabih Khan has been named to the manager workforce as senior vp of Operations reporting to Jeff Williams. Sabih has labored on each Apple product because the late 90s, at all times dedicated to delighting our prospects whereas advancing high quality, sustainability and accountability in manufacturing. His workforce makes attainable a few of the most beloved — and most advanced — merchandise on this planet, and Sabih leads them with coronary heart. I’m thrilled to have him overseeing our provide chain.
Today, we additionally mark one other essential evolution for our firm. After practically 30 years at Apple, Jony Ive is beginning an unbiased design agency which is able to depend Apple amongst its main purchasers and can depart the corporate as an worker later this 12 months. Jony’s contributions are legendary, from the central function he performed in Apple’s revival starting within the late 90s, by the iPhone and maybe his most bold mission, Apple Park, the place he has put a lot of his power and care prior to now few years. I’m proud to name Jony a good friend, and those that know him know his concepts and curiosities are boundless. We will all profit — as people who worth nice design, and as an organization — as he pursues his passions and continues his devoted work with Apple.
Of all his accomplishments, Jony cites the workforce he helped to construct as one in every of his proudest. His longtime collaborators, Evans Hankey and Alan Dye, are robust stewards of Apple’s design ethic and artistic tradition. Collaboration and teamwork are defining options of Apple’s success throughout the corporate.
Evans and Alan will report back to Jeff Williams. As a lot of you realize, Jony and Jeff have been shut collaborators and companions for a few years. In explicit, Jeff’s management in creating Apple Watch introduced collectively a cross-organizational workforce, unprecedented in scope, to provide Apple’s most private machine ever. This is what Apple does at its greatest: elevating a class past its imagined limits, and revealing how a single machine might be a lot greater than the sum of its components. I’m extremely excited in regards to the design workforce’s work, each underway and but to come back.
Tim
