The Daily Mail has published a profile on Apple design guru Jonathan Ive and his rise to near-mythical status.
He is worth hundreds of millions of pounds to the company, which is itself currently valued at a staggering £200 billion. The last decade has belonged to him: his designs for the Californian company have revolutionised everything from music and television to mobile phones and hand-held computers.
By designing that first iMac in 1998 and its ever more sleek successors, then the iPod, iPhone and iPad, Ive has helped turn Apple Inc from an also-ran popular chiefly with designers into the second biggest company in the world, with a higher turnover than Google or Microsoft. He will receive £15 million in Apple shares alone next year.
Interestingly, the The Daily Mail says recent rumors about Ive wanting to return to the U.K. are false.
"I'm not sure there is any truth he wants to come back. My last conversations with him were that he was planning to sell his house in the UK."
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He is worth hundreds of millions of pounds to the company, which is itself currently valued at a staggering £200 billion. The last decade has belonged to him: his designs for the Californian company have revolutionised everything from music and television to mobile phones and hand-held computers.
By designing that first iMac in 1998 and its ever more sleek successors, then the iPod, iPhone and iPad, Ive has helped turn Apple Inc from an also-ran popular chiefly with designers into the second biggest company in the world, with a higher turnover than Google or Microsoft. He will receive £15 million in Apple shares alone next year.
Interestingly, the The Daily Mail says recent rumors about Ive wanting to return to the U.K. are false.
"I'm not sure there is any truth he wants to come back. My last conversations with him were that he was planning to sell his house in the UK."
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