So it has been confirmed that the Jony Ive era at Apple is ending. The company's chief designer is departing soon, and it looks like he will bring with him the aesthetic blueprints that sold hundreds of millions of iPhones in the past years. And with his exit imminent, it seems the next iPhone release will miss the Jony Ive touch.
This was suggested by the latest leak that imagines the look of the next iPhone. The notch will stay, which should be strange as more and more Android flagship phones are losing the notch or at least making it bearable to the eyes.
On the rear of the device, which is rumored to take the name iPhone XI, a square-shaped camera module will house the multi-sensor main shooter, and thus giving it an unsightly bulge. It surely is far from sexy that Forbes can't help to observe: "Apple is indeed going to give the iPhone 11 its most controversial redesign in a decade."
The leak, by the way, was picked up by the report from a recent clip posted by YouTube channel EverythingApplePro that showcased cases designed for the iPhone XI. Per the same source, the cases were legit, and therefore, the hinted iPhone redesign is hard to debunk.
In a related report, BGR has affirmed that the iPhone XI lineup is near sure to get the camera bump that is unlikely to gain the thumbs up from Jony Ive. The report, however, is convinced that Apple fans "get used to the new iPhone camera design and learn to live with it."
It further argued that Apple could not be faulted for its redesign decision. "If the iPhone maker is moving to triple-cam sensors on the iPhone 11 phones, it has good reasons to do so," the BGR report explained.
But Forbes is not buying and offered on its report that it was obvious Ive's departure from Apple has something to do with how the next iPhone will turn out. Either the design chief was outvoted when the design plan was submitted for review, or he refused to get involved during the design process.
This was based on the rumors that after 2015, Ive was hardly involve in the development of Apple products, caused perhaps by disagreements with Tim Cook, who is the company's top honcho. There was even the suggestion that Ive's exit was partly due to the leaked iPhone camera redesign.
It's hard to tell if these speculations are true, but one thing seems sure - it will be hard for the next iPhone to compete with the sea of Android smartphones that are gorgeous and reasonably priced at the same time. If the iPhone XI indeed looks as the leaks have been painting it, then 2019 could prove a skip year for many Apple fans, per the same Forbes report.
