While Apple has stated that their Industrial Design Team has strong leaders with decades of experience, insiders voice their concerns
Evans Hankey, who has held the job since Ive left, informed Apple last month that she will be departing. Though Hankey had been at the company for about 20 years, her relatively brief tenure at the top of the industrial design team made it difficult to establish a distinct vision for new Apple products ...
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