Jony Ive Can’t Save Us From the iPhone Addiction He Helped Create

The legendary former Apple designer Jony Ive has a few regrets. The man helped bring us the iPhone, which in turn was the advent of the smartphone and social media revolution. Now Ive is working with OpenAI—the company that sparked today’s AI fixation—to design some kind of AI-centric hardware that he says will help him atone for society’s lingering screen fixation. In an interview with Stripe CEO Patrick Collison published Thursday, Ive responded to a question about the ill nature of today’s smartphone-obsessed world. He specifically cited social media as a greater societal ill, though he stopped short of getting into specifics of what’s truly wrong with the apps (other than the obvious examples of extreme polarization and mass distribution of falsehoods and propaganda). Ive worked at Apple for 27 years before departing from his role as Chief Design Officer in 2019. His biggest successes included the original iMac, though he was hand in hand with Steve Jobs helping bring us the iPod ... Read full article.