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Why Issey Miyake Was Steve Jobs’s Favorite Designer
Little wonder, really, that Issey Miyake was Steve Jobs’s favorite designer. The man behind Mr. Jobs’s personal uniform of black mock turtlenecks, who died on Aug. 5 at age 84, was a pioneer in all sorts of ways — the first foreign designer to show at Paris Fashion Week (in April 1974), among the first […]
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Apple Ends Consulting Agreement With Jony Ive, Its Former Design Leader
SAN FRANCISCO — When Jony Ive, Apple’s influential design leader, exited the company in 2019, Tim Cook, its chief executive, reassured customers that Mr. Ive, the man who gave the world candy-colored computers, would work exclusively with the company for many years. Not anymore. Mr. Ive and Apple have agreed to stop working together, according […]
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‘This Is America’: Biden Honors 17 With Presidential Medal of Freedom
WASHINGTON — After conferring the Presidential Medal of Freedom on 17 people, including the gymnast Simone Biles and former Senator John McCain, who was honored posthumously, President Biden said, “This is America.” But the celebratory event in the East Room of the White House on Thursday said as much about the president as it did […]
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Biden Will Award Medal of Freedom to Simone Biles, John McCain and Others
WASHINGTON — President Biden announced on Friday that he will present the Presidential Medal of Freedom next week to 17 leaders from the worlds of politics, civil rights, sports, business, education and entertainment, including the Olympic gymnast Simone Biles, the actor Denzel Washington and the first American to receive a Covid-19 vaccine. The recipients, the […]
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Why Jony Ive Left Apple to the ‘Accountants’
The new arrangement freed Mr. Ive from regular commutes to the company’s offices in Cupertino. He shifted from near daily product reviews to an irregular schedule when weeks would pass without weighing in. Sometimes word would spread through the studio that he was unexpectedly coming to the office. Employees compared the moments that followed with […]
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Review: ‘After Steve: How Apple Became a Trillion-Dollar Company and Lost Its Soul,’ by Tripp Mickle
Mickle builds a dense, granular mosaic of the firm’s trials and triumphs, showing us how Apple, built on Ive’s successes in the 2000s, became Cook’s company in the 2010s. Ive, long since knighted, becomes increasingly captivated by opportunities outside Apple — a museum exhibition, a charity auction, an immersive Christmas tree installation — and goes […]
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The Epic Rise and Fall of Elizabeth Holmes
Tech Nation’s host, Moira Gunn, has a master’s degree in computer science and a doctor of philosophy in mechanical engineering, but she was dazzled. “How old are you, Elizabeth?” she asked. “I’m 21,” Ms. Holmes said. Her age was brought up not to knock down her claims but to underline how impressive they were. “I’m […]
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