Jonathan Ive - Apple Wiki, a wiki about Macs, iPod, iPhone, iPad, iWork, iLife and more. Jonathan "Jony" Ive, CBE (born February 1967) is an English designer and the Senior Vice President of Industrial Design at Apple He is the leading designer and conceptual mind behind the iMac, titanium and aluminum PowerBook G4, G4 Cube, MacBook, unibody MacBook Pro, MacBook Air, iPod, iPhone, and iPad.
Early life and family Edit Jonathan Ive was born in Chingford, London in the year 1967. However his family moved to Staffordshire where he was raised. He was brought up by his teacher father and attended Chingford Foundation School. Jony himself has said that he knew he was interested in “drawing and making stuff” since around the age of 14. Ive was not always great with computers and actually found them quite frustrating. Career After finishing school, Ive went on to becoming a cofounder to the London design agency Tangerine.
The work and principles of Dieter Rams, the Chief of Design at Braun from 1961 until 1995, have influenced Ive's work. Apple Watch designer Jonathan Ive described as 'the future' in Vogue. Apple’s chief designer, Jonathan Ive, is fun to have a pint with – and insists on his children building physical, not virtual, objects, according to an in-depth profile in Vogue magazine.
He also thinks that design schools should focus more on the physical, not the virtual. Ive also showed off the company’s new Watch to a journalist from Vogue three weeks before its launch, in a guarded room under conditions that the writer said felt “like a matter of national security”. The revelation comes as part of a profile in the October issue of the fashion bible, and points towards the iPhone maker’s intent to position its smartwatch not as a piece of technology, but as an item aimed at the fashion-conscious. The 3,500-word profile provides a rare insight into the biography and thinking of Ive, who rarely gives interviews and hardly ever speaks in public.
“Jony is deadly serious … He is also serious fun to be around. 3 Lessons Apple's Jony Ive Learned from Steve Jobs. “Steve [Jobs] was the most remarkably focused person I ever met in my life,” Apple’s senior vice president of design Jonathan Ive told Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter during the closing event of Vanity Fair’s New Establishment Summit in San Francisco.
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Thanks for Coming' We use Jonathan Ive’s products to help us to eat, drink and sleep, to work, travel, relax, read, listen and watch, to shop, chat, date and have sex. Many of us spend more time with his screens than with our families. Some of us like his screens more than our families. 'Anti-Facebook' investors dig deep for Ello. 23 October 2014Last updated at 09:00 ET By Zoe Kleinman Technology reporter, BBC News Ello says it has a million users, with another three million waiting to join A social network promising never to sell user data or incorporate advertising has secured multi-million dollar backing Ello, which launched in August, has also become a Public Benefit Corporation, which prohibits its current and any future owners from breaking that promise.
The network plans to make money by introducing micro-payments for additional features. Investors have pledged $5.5m (£3.4m). "There are 'freemium' successes like Linked In and in gaming. "We are long-term investors. Some experts have argued that people are not prepared to pay to use social media platforms.
"You don't invite your friend to connect with you if it costs your friend money. 'Tried and true' But Ello founder Paul Budnitz insists his business can thrive without advertising or data mining. What the agreement means. Review: Ello, an Ad-Free Social Site. Ello, a new ad-free social network that’s currently open only to those with invitations, focuses on style and simplicity.
The first thing I noticed on Ello, a new ad-free social network, is the abundance of white space. Unlike Facebook, which rages with status updates, trending topics, and ads imploring me to click on things my friends “like,” Ello is quiet and calm. The contrast is intentional. This Is the End of Facebook as We Know It. Photo: Ariel Zambelich/WIRED Facebook, the company that makes billions from connecting people to each other, is about to make it harder to have a conversation.
In the coming weeks, Facebook’s mobile app will be losing its chat feature, a move that will no doubt annoy many regular users. But the gutting likely won’t end there. According to many Facebook watchers, the end of chat is just the first cut in what could eventually lead to the end of Facebook as a single, unified app altogether. The move is a crystal clear indication that Facebook is truly serious about splitting its service out into a constellation of mobile apps Facebook notified users and confirmed to the press yesterday that instant messaging functionality will be disappearing from its iOS and Android apps in the coming weeks. Ello – and goodbye to the new social networking site? The internet can seem like a winner-takes-all game – which you win when your brand becomes a verb.
There is only one search engine, one auction site, one encyclopedia… and one social network. Since Facebook shrugged off Bebo and Myspace, it has had few direct competitors. Where Teens Spend Their Time Online When Not on Facebook. Ello might or might not replace Facebook, but the giant social network won't last forever. Predicting the end of Facebook in 2014 feels reckless.
Like slapping a date on the fall of the wall might have felt in the 1980s. As of June this year, the social networking behemoth had 1.32bn active monthly users. According to the latest data from the Pew Research Centre, 71% of online adults use Facebook. Considering 73% use a social networking site, that’s pretty much: all of us. The startup world is full of people pitching and failing the next big thing.
'Anti-Facebook' platform Ello attracts thousands. 29 September 2014Last updated at 19:42 ET By Zoe Kleinman Technology reporter, BBC News Social network Ello has been dubbed the "anti-Facebook" because it carries no advertisements Social media network Ello is currently receiving up to 31,000 requests an hour from people wishing to join its platform, its founder has told the BBC.
It was initially designed to just be used by about 90 friends of its founder Paul Budnitz. But the bike shop owner, from the US state of Vermont, opened it to others on 7 August. It has been dubbed the "anti-Facebook" network because of a pledge to carry no adverts or sell user data. However some experts have cautioned that it might struggle with plans to charge micro-payments for certain "features". The site has a minimalist design and does not appear as user-friendly, at first glance, as more established networks. Ello founder Paul Budnitz is a bike shop owner from the US state of Vermont "We don't consider Facebook to be a competitor. Facebook dying? Survey suggests teens prefer Instagram and Twitter more.