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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Vanessa Thorpe Arts and media correspondent

iPhone designer still asks: ‘I wonder what Steve Jobs would do?’ – despite being told not to

Jony Ive
Jony Ive left Apple in 2019 but will never forget Steve Jobs. Photograph: Monica Davey/EPA

Sir Jony Ive, the innovative designer of Apple’s iMac, iPhone and Apple Watch, and a close friend and ­collaborator of the late Steve Jobs, says he still often asks himself: “I wonder what Steve would do?”

Ive told BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs on Sunday that he does so despite the fact that Jobs had specifically told him not to before his death in 2011, aged 56.

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