(原题目:Tim Cook praises Jony Ive's contributions in email to Apple staff)
图:苹果首席履行官蒂姆·库克(Tim Cook,右)与首席设计官乔尼·艾维(Jony Ive)
图:苹果首席履行官蒂姆·库克(Tim Cook,右)与首席设计官乔尼·艾维(Jony Ive)
网易科技讯 6月29日动静,美国本地时候周四,苹果颁布发表持久担负其首席设计官的乔尼·艾维(Jony Ive)将在年末前去职,并开办本身的设计公司LoveFrom。不外,这家新公司将继续以苹果为首要客户,与苹果紧密亲密合作。
持久合作火伴关系的重年夜转变促使库克给全部员工写了一封信,就这些转变向他们供给诠释,并减缓他们对带领层产生重年夜改变的耽忧。
在信中,库克起首谈到提升萨比赫·汗(Sabih Khan)为高级运营副总裁,并向首席运营官杰夫·威廉姆斯(Jeff Williams)报告请示工作。库克暗示:“自上世纪90年月末以来,萨比赫一向致力于每款苹果产物的研发,始终致力于在晋升产物质量、可延续性和制造责任的同时取悦客户。”
库克随后转向艾维去职一事,重申了其去职和建立自力设计公司的动静。库克写道:“艾维的进献是传奇的,从他在90年月末起头的苹果回复中饰演的焦点脚色,到iPhone,或许还有他最大志勃勃的项目——苹果园,在曩昔的几年里,他投进了太多的精神和关心。我很高傲成为艾维的伴侣,熟悉他的人都知道他的设法和洽奇心是无限的。作为一个正视伟年夜设计的人,作为一家公司,我们都将从中受益,由于他寻求本身的豪情,并继续为苹果奉献本身的工作。”
在谈到新的设计主管时,埃文斯·汉基(Evans Hankey)和艾伦·戴伊(Alan Dye)被称为“苹果设计伦理和创意文化的果断保卫者”。
库克致员工信全文以下:
我写这封信是想让你们知道些关于公司办理层的转变,这触及到两个别现苹果价值不雅的人,他们的工作将有助于界说苹果的将来。
我很欢快地颁布发表,萨比赫·汗已被录用为履行团队的高级运营副总裁,向杰夫·威廉姆斯报告请示工作。自上世纪90年月末以来,萨比赫一向致力于每款苹果产物的研发,始终致力于在晋升产物质量、可延续性和制造责任的同时取悦客户。他的团队使世界上很多最受接待、最复杂的产物成为可能,而萨比赫经心全意地带领着这些产物。我很欢快他能监视我们的供给链。
今天,我们也标记着我们公司的另外一个主要成长。在苹果工作了近30年以后,乔尼·艾维将成立自力的设计公司,将苹果列为首要客户之一,他将于本年晚些时辰分开公司。艾维的进献是传奇的,从他在90年月末起头的苹果回复中饰演的焦点脚色,到iPhone,或许还有他最大志勃勃的项目——苹果园,在曩昔的几年里,他投进了太多的精神和关心。我很高傲成为艾维的伴侣,熟悉他的人都知道他的设法和洽奇心是无限的。作为一个正视伟年夜设计的人,作为一家公司,我们都将从中受益,由于他寻求本身的豪情,并继续为苹果奉献本身的工作。
在他所有的成绩中,艾维说他帮忙成立的苹果设计团队是让他感应最高傲的团队之一。他的持久合作火伴埃文斯·汉基(Evans Hankey)和艾伦·戴伊(Alan Dye)是苹果设计伦理和创意文化的果断保卫者。协作和团队合作是苹果在全部公司获得成功的主要身分。
汉基和戴伊将向杰夫·威廉姆斯报告请示工作。你们良多人都知道,艾维和威廉姆斯多年来一向是密切的合作火伴。特别值得一提的是,威廉姆斯在开辟Apple Watch方面的带领能力,使一个跨组织的团队走到了一路,其范围之年夜史无前例,缔造了苹果有史以来最个性化的装备。这就是苹果所做的最好的工作:晋升一个产物种别,超出其想象的极限,并揭露出单一装备的机能若何可以或许远远跨越其部件的调集。我对设计团队的工作感应很是兴奋,不管是正在进行的仍是行将到来的。(小小)
以下是库克全员信的英文原文:
Team,
I'm writing to let you know about some changes to the ET involving two people who embody Apple's values and whose work will help define Apple's future.
I'm happy to announce that Sabih Khan has been named to the executive team as senior vice president of Operations reporting to Jeff Williams. Sabih has worked on every Apple product since the late 90s, always committed to delighting our customers while advancing quality, sustainability and responsibility in manufacturing. His team makes possible some of the most beloved — and most complex — products in the world, and Sabih leads them with heart. I am thrilled to have him overseeing our supply chain.
Today, we also mark another important evolution for our company. After nearly 30 years at Apple, Jony Ive is starting an independent design firm which will count Apple among its primary clients and will depart the company as an employee later this year. Jony's contributions are legendary, from the central role he played in Apple's revival beginning in the late 90s, through the iPhone and perhaps his most ambitious project, Apple Park, where he has put so much of his energy and care in the past few years. I am proud to call Jony a friend, and those who know him know his ideas and curiosities are boundless. We will all benefit — as individuals who value great design, and as a company — as he pursues his passions and continues his dedicated work with Apple.
Of all his accomplishments, Jony cites the team he helped to build as one of his proudest. His longtime collaborators, Evans Hankey and Alan Dye, are strong stewards of Apple's design ethic and creative culture. Collaboration and teamwork are defining features of Apple's success across the company.
Evans and Alan will report to Jeff Williams. As many of you know, Jony and Jeff have been close collaborators and partners for many years. In particular, Jeff's leadership in developing Apple Watch brought together a cross-organizational team, unprecedented in scope, to produce Apple's most personal device ever. This is what Apple does at its best: elevating a category beyond its imagined limits, and revealing how a single device can be so much more than the sum of its parts. I'm incredibly excited about the design team's work, both underway and yet to come.
Tim