I can definitely see that argument, but I feel the issue is that Ive lacked a product-focussed and customer-focussed CEO to reign in his "wilder" impulses (the Edition watches are another example of that).
Jobs may have managed Ive's drive in a way that would not have seemed bean-countery to him but customer-focussed.
In other words, Ive was only a liability in so far as he had no actual peers at the company to reign him in. And it's debatable that that's not really his fault.
Jobs may have managed Ive's drive in a way that would not have seemed bean-countery to him but customer-focussed.
In other words, Ive was only a liability in so far as he had no actual peers at the company to reign him in. And it's debatable that that's not really his fault.