Report: Apple Axes the position of design chief in major design shift

MacWorld.com and others are reporting that Apple is shutting down its design chief position previously held by Jonny Ives, and the same department in which catapulted Apple back in 1998 which the introduction of the fruit colored iMac.

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According to MacWorld.com:

According to a Bloomberg report, a “core group of about 20 industrial designers” will now report to chief operating officer Jeff Williams, who has been with the company since 1998. According to Apple’s leadership page, Williams “played a key role in Apple’s entry into the mobile phone market with the launch of iPhone, and since 2010 has led worldwide operations for all products.” He currently leads Apple’s design team and the software and hardware engineering for Apple Watch and presumably had a major hand in the design of the Apple Watch Ultra.

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