Technology | Bloomberg: Apple's longest-serving designer is leaving the company

American Apple's longest-standing industrial designer is leaving the company, reports the news agency Bloomberg.

According to the news agency's anonymous sources, he joined the company in 1992 Bart Andre has told his colleagues in February that he is retiring.

Andre was one of the few industrial designers left to lead Apple's design for a long time Jony Ive of the team. The team was responsible for the design of the iPhone, iPad and other Apple products for almost three decades. Ive left Apple in 2019.

Andre was known as one of Ive's closest confidants and one of the people holding the most Apple patents, Bloomberg reports.

According to Bloomberg, several experienced industrial designers have left Apple in recent months.

Mixed Apple's industrial design team and the team responsible for user interface design are currently led by the company's chief operating officer Jeff Williams. He has been in the role since last year. The arrangement was decided on so that the cooperation with the manufacturing of the products would work better.

According to Bloomberg's sources, the fact that the teams responsible for design are directly under the responsibility of the person responsible for operational activities has caused resentment among some staff members.

Uncertainty has also been caused by spending cuts, Bloomberg is told. Under Ive, the team carried out research projects that did not necessarily have an immediate effect on the results. Now such experiments are rare.

Ive the core group of the design team consisted of about twenty people for more than a decade. Almost all the most experienced members of the team have now left Apple. Many of them have moved on to work at Love From, the design company founded by Ive.

The task of Apple's design team is to plan the appearance of devices and software, and to develop user interface details, such as iPhone ringtones.