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Apple gave framed awards to people at the five-, ten-, fifteen-, and twenty-year marks. Then Jony Ive, Apple’s chief design officer, designed a leaded glass plaque, vapor-honed for an especially beautiful finish, with Apple’s logo etched into it. Everyone who’d been at the company for more than ten years got one. Plenty of bloggers have mocked this
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under [then CEO] Gil Amelio, design didn’t mean anything. You’d design a product, and marketing would say, “Well, we only gave you $15 to do this and it’s gonna cost us $20, so we’re gonna badge a Dell computer or Canon printer.” We were a marketing-driven company that wasn’t focused on design or even delivering a product. We became just another PC
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