John Gruber Shares Scathing Commentary About Apple's Departing Software Design Chief

In a connection shared with Bloomberg connected Wednesday, Apple confirmed that its bundle plan main Alan Dye will beryllium leaving. Apple said Dye volition beryllium succeeded by Stephen Lemay, who has been a bundle decorator astatine the institution since 1999.


Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that Dye volition pb a caller originative workplace wrong the company's AR/VR part Reality Labs.

On his blog Daring Fireball, longtime Apple commentator John Gruber has since reacted to the quality with immoderate scathing commentary astir Dye.

Specifically, Gruber said Dye does not attraction astir design.

"If you attraction astir design, there's obscurity to spell but down aft leaving Apple," said Gruber, successful a lengthy station citing conversations with Apple employees. "What radical overlooked is the obvious: Alan Dye doesn't really attraction astir design."

Gruber said that everyone helium spoke to wrong and extracurricular of Apple was "happy" — if not downright "giddy" — to larn that Lemay is replacing Dye.

"Lemay is well-liked personally and profoundly respected talent-wise," helium said.

"He has ever acceptable an extraordinarily precocious barroom for excellence and embodies Apple's civilization of collaboration and creativity," Apple CEO Tim Cook said of Lemay, successful his connection to Bloomberg that confirmed Dye is leaving the company.

Dye was promoted to Vice President of Human Interface Design astatine Apple in 2015, astatine the aforesaid clip arsenic Jony Ive became Chief Design Officer astatine the company. Gruber said this was a "big mistake," arsenic Dye had nary inheritance successful idiosyncratic interface design.

Lemay, connected the different hand, is described arsenic being a "career" interface decorator with a peculiar "attention to item and craftsmanship."

The determination from Dye to Lemay could beryllium the champion happening to hap to Apple's quality interface plan "in the full agelong since Steve Jobs's passing and Scott Forstall's ouster," according to Gruber. At the precise least, helium expects the determination to "stop the bleeding" astatine Apple, some successful presumption of prime of enactment and endowment retention.

Dye is expected to statesman his relation astatine Meta astatine the extremity of December.

Gruber's afloat station connected Daring Fireball: "Bad Dye Job"
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