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Legendary Apple designer Bart Andre to retire, cost-cutting efforts leading to “unrest” inside design team

Sometimes even the legends move on. Bloomberg has reported that Apple’s longest-running senior designer, Bart Andre, is retiring. Andre, who joined Apple in 1992, worked with Jony Ive and his team, his departure marking “the near-complete turnover” of Ive’s former design team. Andre announced his plans to retire this month. His departure is a significant […]

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Apple adds mid-2012 MacBook Pro to its obsolete list, marking the end of an era for the final Mac notebook with an optical drive

It’s the end of an era as Apple has finally placed the mid-2012 MacBook Pro, the final MacBook Pro with an optical drive, on the company’s obsolete list. Apple maintains a vintage and obsolete product list that updates based on how long it has been since a product was for sale. Some vintage products may […]

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Apple, former design chief Jony Ive, separate after contract extension talks fail

Following former Apple design chief Jony Ive’s departure from the company in 2019, Ive has continued to consult for Apple through his LoveFrom design firm. This partnership has apparently come to an end. Apple and Ive have agreed to stop working together, ending a more than 30-year relationship. Ive has been responsible for some of […]

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Apple Design Chief to leave Apple, start new design company with Apple as a primary client

Jony Ive is moving on from Apple. Apple announced on Thursday that Ive is leaving to start his own design firm. While Apple will function as one of Ive’s “primary clients, ” he’ll be able to handle work for other firms while continuing to design for the Cupertino company. In a statement, Apple CEO Tim Cook said […]