English - Designer | February 27, 1967 -
The iPhone was broadly dismissed. The iPod was broadly dismissed. The iPad was probably more copiously written off as a large iPod.
Jonathan Ive
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If doing anything new, you're very used to having insurmountable obstacles.
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I am very aware that I'm the product of growing up in England and the tradition of designing and making, of England industrialising first.
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Innovation at Apple has always been a team game. It has always been a case where you have a number of small groups working together.
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Often when I talk about what I do, making isn't just this inevitable function tacked on at the end.
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Unless we understand a certain material - metal or resin and plastic - understanding the processes that turn it from ore, for example - we can never develop and define form that's appropriate.
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My focus is incredibly narrow. I can't talk with any authority other than design and development of product.
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I think a beautiful product that doesn't work very well is ugly.
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When you're doing something for the first time, you don't know it's going to work. You spend seven or eight years working on something, and then it's copied. I have to be honest: the first thing I can think, all those weekends that I could have at home with my family but didn't. I think it's theft, and it's lazy.
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So much of my background is about making: physically doing it myself.
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I find that when I write, I need things to be quiet, but when I design, I can't bear it if it's quiet.
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I think it's important that we learn how to draw and to make something and to do it directly. To understand the properties you're working with by manipulating them and transforming them yourself.
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