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Jonathan Ive's Moving Steve Jobs Tribute

By Rain Noe - October 3, 2012

in Object Culture

As we approach the anniversary of Steve Jobs' passing (this Friday), we're seeing Mac blogs light up with a variety of anecdotes about Jobs and his accomplishments. Hands down, the best we've seen is Jonathan Ive's moving speech, below, delivered to Apple employees on the Cupertino campus in a private ceremony from last October.

While Ive touches on some well-known predilections of Jobs' (toiling over parts of an object that no one would ever see, or his father's "back of the cabinet" philosophy, for those that read Walter Isaacson's book), he also sprinkles his talk with humorous gems like the funny hotel story he tells at 2:30. And there are enough design-specific pull-quotes in Ive's talk—on the power of ideas, on the importance of trying, failing, and persevering, on the human cost of design—that it would be impossible to select which was my favorite. You definitely ought hear it with your own ears.

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Dave232: Why change something if it's a global success?
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The most powerful part of that speech for me is right at the very end. Jonathan Ive, THE Jonathan Ive, billionaire, designer extraordinaire, the guy with the iPhone, iPad, etc. on his resume has a hand written speech on a piece of white paper. I don't mean any disrespect by that, in fact the opposite. That even he of all people recognize the importance of the connection between a person and their work that simply cannot be achieved in any other way besides building it with our hands. Great speech too.
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Jobs is dead; please leave him alone. We are tired of hearing about him. And has anyone noticed, all of Ive's phone designs look pretty much the same?
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