NEWS ANALYSIS
the famously sleek but barely upgradeable ‘trash can’
Mac Pro from 2013 (and it’s still not clear how much
input Jobs may have had in its initial design). This is the
decade of prematurely vanishing ports and the widely
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and it’s the decade of the oft-ridiculed charging port
for the Magic Mouse 2. It’s the decade when we heard
a lot about a pervasive sense that design is stagnating
at Apple, and so far as there’s any truth to that, maybe
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jaw-dropping magic once again.
With that in mind, it’s probably a good idea for
Apple to not get too hung up on worrying about
‘what Jony would do’ for future projects. It may be no
accident that the news of Ive’s departure comes in the
midst of a year when we’ve seen Apple sweep away
a number of software-related design frustrations it
clung to for years, ranging from prohibition of Xbox and
PlayStation controllers on the iPad and Apple TV or theThe Apple Watch is just one
of Ive’s memorable designs