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He left in 2019 and formed his own company, that did design work for Apple until 2022.

He "took" several Apple employees with him when he left and there's been a steady stream of Apple employees going to OpenAI.

Ive isn’t responsible for all of them obviously, but the articles about lawsuits says there are 400 former Apple employees at OpenAI.



Sounds like Apple needs to do a better job at being a place where employees want to stay.


Given that his departure was marked by Apple products getting more reliable and usable, they arguably did too much in that regard (one of Cook’s more notable bad calls). Once he stopped blocking it, the keyboards were fixed and pro devices regained enough ports for pro users.

Without his support, his protege Alan Dye left for Meta and improved the design skills at both companies.


Or, good that the craze for ever thinner laptops has been slowed?


A lot more than several. Sounded like it ended up being a large chunk of his team.




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