It’s been an enormous week in Apple govt actions. Let’s see if the Macalope can recap for you for those who have been unconscious for seven days (that sounds good, can the Macalope get a few of that?).
After the unsurprising information that defacto former Apple govt John Giannandrea would infacto be leaving the corporate, we realized that Apple’s head of consumer interface design Alan Dye would even be leaving for greener pastures at Meta (the inexperienced is all money).
Breaking the information on Mastodon, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman stated:
Apple’s high design govt Alan Dye is leaving the iPhone maker to develop into the Chief Design Officer at Meta in a blockbuster coup for the social networking big and large loss for Apple.
Mark Gurman
That is such Dye-friendly framing that one is likely to be excused for considering it was written by Alan Dye’s mother. It wasn’t. Or in all probability wasn’t, anyway.
Wouldn’t that be wild if Mark Gurman’s supply this complete time has been Alan Dye’s mother? That will be an sudden flip of occasions.
In actuality, few folks within the Apple neighborhood–apart from Dye’s mother–suppose a lot of his work, which incorporates Liquid Glass and a variety of horrible icons for macOS Tahoe. Individuals not likely seeing this as a “massive loss” for Apple embrace, however should not restricted to, Louie Mantia, John Gruber, Jason Snell, Nick Heer, Macworld contributor Alex Blake, and this furry observer.
Apple normally has good folks ready within the wings, and, on this occasion at the least, we now have good purpose to suppose the alternative is not going to solely be good however an actual improve.
…everybody I’ve spoken to is joyful — if not downright giddy — on the information that Lemay is changing Dye. Lemay is well-liked personally and deeply revered talent-wise. Mentioned one supply, able to know the alternatives, “I don’t suppose there was a more sensible choice than Lemay.”
Later within the week, Apple additionally introduced a number of different executives modifications, together with the retirements of common counsel Kate Adams and VP of Setting, Coverage and Social Initiatives Lisa Jackson. Adams will probably be changed by ex-Meta chief authorized officer Jennifer Newstead, and Jackson by a line on the org chart that’s extra usually used on soccer locker room whiteboards to characterize an end-run.
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Whereas many individuals have been leaving Apple, at the least one was making an attempt to get again in. This information, {that a} man would really like energy and command the likes of which he has by no means wielded earlier than, is big, if true. Who, precisely, is saying this, you might surprise.
…Tony Fadell, a former Apple {hardware} govt who co-invented the iPod, has informed associates not too long ago…
Aaron Tilley and Wayne Ma, The Data
Somebody informed The Data that Tony Fadell stated he would graciously settle for the place of Apple CEO. Okay.
Simply, for a second right here, entertain the next: would it not not be completely wild if The Data’s supply right here is Tony Fadell’s mother? Wilder nonetheless, Fadell and Dye have been at Apple on the identical time, so it’s theoretically doable the supply is once more Dye’s mother, however let’s not get loopy right here and go along with the one mom principle. The 2-moms speculation appears extra cheap.
Sadly for Fadell, irrespective of who the sources are and what number of occasions he writes “Mr. Apple CEO Tony Fadell” on the duvet of his Trapper Keeper, he isn’t going to get the gig. Even The Data says he was “a polarizing determine” when he labored at Apple, and his time at Nest doesn’t appear to have burnished his popularity a lot as he rubbed his co-founder and staff equally the improper approach.
Effectively, at the least we are able to quiet down now that each one the Apple govt information is-
“Apple Rocked by Government Departures, With Chip Chief at Threat of Leaving Subsequent”
Oh, come on. How is breaking information in a position to interrupt the Macalope mid-sentence in his personal column? It is not sensible!
Sure, over the weekend, Mark Gurman introduced a tin of cookies over to some Apple govt’s mother’s home, the place she was heard to comment, “Ooh, yah, I hear that good Johny Srouji fella is thinkin’ of leavin’, him what made the chips and all.”
The Macalope’s unsure whose mother that is, however he’s considering higher midwestern accent. She’s serving Gurman a casserole out of a baking dish and pouring him some RC Cola out of a 2-liter bottle.
In contrast to Dye’s departure, Srouji’s would actually be dangerous for Apple. Fortuitously, this breaking information was re-broken on Monday morning when Gurman reported that Srouji despatched out a memo to his workers saying he didn’t know what they could have heard from any of the varied chatty mother and father of Apple executives, however he doesn’t “plan on leaving anytime quickly”.
Right here’s hoping all of the remaining Apple executives take time without work within the coming weeks to be with their households and don’t have bandwidth to consider leaving.
