{"id":8343,"date":"2020-09-14T19:40:28","date_gmt":"2020-09-14T23:40:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/?p=8343"},"modified":"2020-09-14T19:40:28","modified_gmt":"2020-09-14T23:40:28","slug":"linked-apple-leadership-bubblegum-cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2020\/09\/14\/linked-apple-leadership-bubblegum-cards\/","title":{"rendered":"Linked: &#8220;Apple Leadership Bubblegum Cards&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/daringfireball.net\/2020\/09\/apple_leadership_bubblegum_cards\">Via Daring Fireball:<\/a> (a tech &amp; politics blog)<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>My biggest question and deepest concern regarding Apple\u2019s leadership, especially now that Ive is gone and Phil Schiller has moved on to a fellowship with only the App Store and events on his plate,2 is whose taste is driving product development? <\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I had the exact same consideration when I read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2020-09-11\/apple-s-successors-for-ceo-tim-cook-other-top-executives\">Bloomberg piece<\/a>. I\u2019m certain Williams will do a great job succeeding Cook but Apple has done a fantastic job over the last 6 years de-branding design. Jony Ive himself was talking about how great the team is, then we had 2 design chiefs and now we don\u2019t hear about anyone from design at Apple and the product leads are the ones showing off new products, not the designers. Design is so ingrained in Apple, they don\u2019t need a face for design? Maybe Apple regrets how much Ive stole the limelight from the hundreds in industrial design who work nights and weekends to deliver great products but on the face of things, Steve &amp; Jony since 1997 were design and then Jony and now who?<\/p>\n<p><span hidden class=\"__iawmlf-post-loop-links\" data-iawmlf-links=\"[{&quot;id&quot;:1322,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/daringfireball.net\\\/2020\\\/09\\\/apple_leadership_bubblegum_cards&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20250920112714\\\/https:\\\/\\\/daringfireball.net\\\/2020\\\/09\\\/apple_leadership_bubblegum_cards&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-03 19:56:09&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-08 08:41:16&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-20 17:30:46&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-02 00:10:32&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-08 04:56:38&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-28 18:22:16&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-07 12:07:33&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-01 05:31:35&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-10 13:44:12&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-30 11:05:50&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-06-11 02:38:27&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-06-11 02:38:27&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]\"><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Via Daring Fireball: (a tech &amp; politics blog) My biggest question and deepest concern regarding Apple\u2019s leadership, especially&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"apple_news_api_created_at":"2020-09-14T23:40:37Z","apple_news_api_id":"afc9a814-e2b0-4dbe-9129-2ff53d8daa77","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2020-09-14T23:40:37Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/Ar8moFOKwTb6RKS_1PY2qdw","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_custom_appearance":"","csco_disable_excerpt_posts_layout":false,"csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[165,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-beer-haul","category-linked","cs-entry","cs-video-wrap"],"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb3IC4-2az","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4563,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2015\/04\/09\/linked-the-new-yorker-and-jony-ive\/","url_meta":{"origin":8343,"position":0},"title":"Linked: 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2017","format":false,"excerpt":"via Wired: ON A CRISP and clear March day, more than five years after Jobs\u2019 death, I\u2019m seated next to Jonathan Ive in the back of a Jeep Wrangler as we prepare to tour the nearly completed Apple Park, the name recently bestowed on the campus that Jobs pitched to\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Linked&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Linked","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/category\/linked\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":7491,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2018\/06\/14\/linked-apples-design-language-has-killed-fun-in-consumer-electronics\/","url_meta":{"origin":8343,"position":2},"title":"Linked: &#8220;Apple\u2019s Design Language Has Killed Fun in Consumer Electronics&#8221;","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"June 14, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Apple\u2019s Design Language Has Killed Fun in Consumer Electronics: Mike Murphy: For a while, the company stuck to this design 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That's thinner than both Apple's MacBook (13.2mm thick) and Dell's XPS 13 (15.2mm thick).\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Linked&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Linked","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/category\/linked\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":7229,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2017\/11\/20\/linked-jony-ive-and-the-wallpaper-magazine-cover\/","url_meta":{"origin":8343,"position":4},"title":"Linked: &#8220;Jony Ive and the Wallpaper* magazine cover&#8221;","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"November 20, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"via Medium: \u201cI don\u2019t know how he\u2019s done this,\u201d She says dabbing tears from her eyes, \u201cbut Jony\u2019s created a gradient from C0 M0 Y0 K0 to R255 G255 B255.\u201d \u201cFuck does that mean? So this is the correct image? There\u2019s a colour? A gradient?\u201d \u201cNo!\u201d the Art Director is\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Linked&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Linked","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/category\/linked\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2177,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2011\/04\/11\/windows-app-store-design-copies-apple-google\/","url_meta":{"origin":8343,"position":5},"title":"\u2605 Windows App Store Design Copies Apple &#038; Google","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"April 11, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"MG Siegler: Last year,\u00a0we ripped Google for ripping off the design of Apple\u2019s App Store for their Chrome Web Store. This actually might be worse. It looks almost as if Microsoft is ripping off Google ripping off Apple. Again,\u00a0allegedly\u00a0\u2014 the shots aren\u2019t confirmed. 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