alt Hacker NewsWasn't Jony Ive also hired during the interregnum period? I think I remember reading in the Isaacson bio that when Jobs came back in the late 90s he encountered Ive who was hired a year or two previously.
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linguae • last Tuesday at 10:29 PM
Yup, Jony Ive was hired before Steve Jobs returned to Apple. In fact, he worked on the 20th Anniversary Macintosh, though he wasn't the sole designer. If I remember correctly, Ive was considering leaving Apple around the time Jobs returned, but Jobs and Ive ended up hitting it off, and the rest became history, as Ive's designs and Jobs' encouragement helped revitalize Apple, beginning with the iMac.
Yeah, Apple released the Jony Ive-designed eMate 300, translucent green plastic and all, under Gil Amelio https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fa/Apple_Ne...