August 2019 • Macworld 19NEWS ANALYSISIn Jony we trust (except when it comes to mice). Michael
Simon reports
L
ess than 10 years after Steve Jobs passed
away, Apple is faced with another difficult
transition. Sir Jony Ive, Apple’s design guru
since the days of the Newton MessagePad, has
announced that he will be leaving the tech giant
as an employee to form an independent design
company, of which Apple will be a client.