Senior industrial designer Bart Andre, Apple’s longest-serving employee, announced he was preparing for retirement in a note he sent to colleagues. In 1992, as we are used to Apple’s aesthetic Bartre joined Apple with Jony Ive to create for 32 years He worked at Apple. So much so that Steve Jobs was still on the company’s staff even when he returned to Apple in the late 1990s.

Member of the Ive senior team BartreApple will leave after Evans Hankey leaves in 2023 Responsible for the operation of the design department has happened. It was also claimed that he owned a significant portion of Apple patents. Bartre will retire later this month.

There is no one left from Ive’s time

The design team led by Jony Ive, After the divorce from Ive It has been almost completely renovated. Many people on the team had left Apple. With Bartre’s departure, none of the senior team currently working will remain under Apple’s roof. So it will be the end of an era at Apple.

After Bartre, it is the person who will lead the company’s industrial design department Chief Operating Officer Jeff Williams It looks like it will happen. Sources close to the matter say that the appointment of a person working in the Operations department as head of a department focused on design and innovation is causing unrest. Together with the recent layoffs within the company, this decision shows that the company may be going through a difficult period.