Wave of departures in Apple's design team, what's happening?

The apple firm is currently experiencinga succession of departures.In total, more than 20 former renowned employees of the firm have left, or are about to do so. Among them, an emblematic figure of Apple: Tang Tan.

Tang Tan rejoint Sir Jonathan Ive

Mark Gurman reported earlier this month that Apple's chief iPhone designer, Tang Tan, was preparing to jump ship. This in order to join the new company offather of the iPhone, Jony Ive, «LoveFrom". The informant specifies that departure is planned for February 2024.

The announcement of Tang Tan's departure would have caused "a shake-up of Apple's most critical product lines". Mark Gurman states that “Altman, an executive who has become the face of modern AI, plans to provide the software foundation, said the sources, who asked not to be identified because the project is not public».

After he didhis farewell to Cupertino in 2019, Jony Ive embarked on the secret adventureLoveFromwith Sam Altman from OpenAI.We don't know what's behind this legendary partnership, but it's rumored to be a "physical product that uses AI».

In any case, Mark Gurman brings us new information today regarding this affair, includingmore than 20 people who are preparing to join the former pillar of Apple, Jony Ive.

Burns, Coffman and Burns follow suit

In his paper, the Bloomberg analyst reports: “Apple departures have continued more recently. Patrick Coffman, one of Apple's top user interface design leaders, has left the company. Colin Burns, former head of design at British Broadcasting Corp. who joined Apple after Ive resigned, is leaving in January. He leads Apple's Interaction Architecture team, which is responsible for exploring early hardware and software concepts.Shota Aoyagi, another member of Ive's famous industrial design team at Apple, also left the group. He just started at LoveFrom. »

All these departures are a hard blow for Apple, and more particularly that of Tang Tan, who according to members of his team is used to taking “critical decisions about Apple's most important products».

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