You’d be surprised to hear how much the political power of the design team within Apple has eroded over the last decade.
Here’s a little game of insider Apple baseball:
1) why do you think the chief of design isn’t on this page? https://www.apple.com/leadership/
2) from the SVPs on that same page, who do you think the chief of design reports to?
Then Cook took over but still Jonathan Ive stayed as head of design until 2019.
Ive was replaced by Evans Hankey and Alan Dye who were under Jeff Williams, the Chief Operating Officer.
Talk about a downgrade!
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To keep the guessing game going: what percent of Apple is owned by institutional investors?
Top level reports to COO now.
~60% institutional ownership
You’d be surprised to hear how much the political power of the design team within Apple has eroded over the last decade.
Here’s a little game of insider Apple baseball:
1) why do you think the chief of design isn’t on this page? https://www.apple.com/leadership/
2) from the SVPs on that same page, who do you think the chief of design reports to?