Rumors of Jon Ive moving to the UK reportedly false
Jonathan Ive, Apple's senior vice president of product design, has no plans to take his talents back to the United Kingdom, an in-depth profile of the designer in the Daily Mail revealed last week. Recent speculation suggested the 44-year-old planned to cash in his US$30 million in Apple stock options and relocate to a mansion he owns in Somerset so that his children could receive an education in the UK.
Last month, the Times of London reported that Ive might be looking to leave Apple whose trend-setting designs he's helped shape for nearly 15 years. The Times suggested Ive remained an Apple employee only to reap the benefits of a "golden handcuffs" option grant from 2008 that he is now eligible to sell. With his net worth currently estimated at $128 million, many believed Ive could easily retire from Apple and return home to the UK with his family.
Fortunately for Apple, last week's profile in The Daily Mail states, in no uncertain terms, that Ive has no plans to leave California and that his $4 million home in Somerset, UK, will remain empty.
"I'm not sure there is any truth he wants to come back," a former colleague told the Daily Mail. "My last conversations with him were that he was planning to sell his house in the UK."
Ive's career at Apple started quietly in 1992 when he often worked out of his own basement office, cranking out futuristic prototypes that were entirely under-appreciated by his superiors. "For the first three years Jony was having a pretty miserable time designing Newton PDAs and printer trays," Clive Grinyer, who co-founded tangerine, a UK consulting firm, with Ive in 1989, told The Daily Mail. "It was a bad existence."Then, Steve Jobs returned to Apple and quickly recognized the value of Ive's design talent. With the responsibility of designing Apple's future, Ive got off to a fast start with the iconic and colorful iMac. Despite falling short of Jobs's high standards for perfection, the iMac was a huge hit with customers and rejuvenated Apple essentially overnight. Since then, Ive has become one of Apple's strongest assets, consistently raising the standard for industrial design both at the company and throughout the world.
Many consider Ive and current acting CEO Tim Cook to be Apple's most valuable executives behind Steve Jobs. With Ive apparently staying with Apple for awhile longer, Apple fans can look forward to more beautiful Macs, iPads, iPhones and iPods that define thoughtful, modern industrial design that's both functional and beautiful.
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Why Jonny Ive won't leave Apple:
* He is passionately in love with the job he does. He lives it and breathes it.
* There is no other vehicle in the world that could let him express his industrial design skills to the extent that Apple allows him too.
Of course, I'm speculating - but it's clear to me that Jonathan Ive is driven by his creativity, and nowhere else could he put that creativity to such use. Apple have embraced him in a way that most companies never could.
Come on, how about a link for this: 'Despite falling short of Jobs's high standards for perfection, the iMac...'
That's much too intriguing a teaser to just leave hanging.
Ditto! You've got me Googling for more on this one, but I'm coming up empty.
Is there a source? A link? Anything?
What? The Daily Fail published a misleading article? Noooooooo.
Psst, Fox News is biased too. Amazing I know. Also, water is wet.
I'm getting so sick of this blog posting rumors.
this isn't MacRumors, so post news, facts or fun stories.
Oh, and when you post a 'rumor' with "possible facts" and it's linked to ANOTHER BLOG or a Chinese website; You're doing it wrong.
just stop.
so, let me get this straight: the media took some rumor and ran with it as if it was fact, and bloggers cranked up the din, and now it's probably not true? huh -- you don't say. crazy, that.
March 21 2011 at 3:31 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyThis comes from the Daily Mail so it must be true.
Here's a prime example of why you shouldn't believe a single word they print.
http://nosleeptilbrooklands.blogspot.com/2011/01/true-story-of-daily-mail-lies-guest.html
Good news for apple inc.
March 21 2011 at 3:24 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyHe is talented and it would be another big loss for Apple, but $30m would allow him to draw $600k per year until he's dead and he could fully enjoy his life and time and even still consult if he wanted. I'd be long gone.
I would like to see some new, fresh, ideas and designs from Apple again though. The cube may have been poorly realized but still one of the coolest computers ever made, I even liked the flavored CRT Macs.
oh, honestly, this has to be one of your all-time headlines.
"rumors of...reportedly false?"
please, please, please stop reporting this stuff.
I for one am VERY happy this updated information was reported. It sounded far more serious initially than is now being reported. I am very glad TUAW keeps me informed of the Apple ecosystem. It's up to me to determine if I should take what TUAW is saying with a grain of salt.
March 21 2011 at 3:01 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyThe other day they posted that there were RUMORS that the RUMORS about the iPhone 5 having NFC were REPORTEDLY false. So it was a rumor that a rumor might possibly be false, which is exactly what this also is.
March 21 2011 at 3:07 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Replyyou know you have done well when you see others copying your design ideas. how many of us saw all in ones start to resemble iMacs, or mp3 players that wanted to look like iPods, or laptops at BestBuy that wanted to be Macbooks? Good work Jony Ives...good work!
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