Jony Ive not software director Craig Federighi is responsible for

Greg Christie, head of Human interface, who worked at Apple for 18 years, has confirmed he is leaving, and his team will be directly responsible for the vice president of Apple design Jony Ive rather than the software director Craig Federighi, which makes Ive more powerful.

Christie, one of Apple's most authoritative software designers, played a key role in iphone software design, and it was Christie in court last week's patent lawsuit that told the story of the iphone's birth.

And 9to5mac guessed Christie's departure or ive "broke up", but Apple's PR team said, "Greg's retirement is planned, he has made great contributions to Apple products, polished a world-class interactive design team, This team and Jony have a close cooperative relationship. ”

John Gruber, who knows Apple better than Apple, is more humane, Christie18 a high-pressure, highly-B job in most cases to Mr. Jobs. He's earned a lot of money and now it's time to enjoy life, which is basically consistent with the reaction of Apple's PR team. But he learned from some of Apple's bottom designers.

John Gruber also said that the news of Christie's retirement was announced within a week before it was made public only today. Interestingly, it was said that he would not leave until the end of the year, so Gruber that there was not much political entanglement involved.