Fast Technology reported on February 14 that according to foreign reports, Apple's longest-serving senior industrial designer Bart Andre (Bart Andre) will leave this year.
At present, the only two veterans in Apple's industrial design team are Richard Howarth, who has worked at Apple for 26 years, and Bart Andre, who has worked at Apple for more than 30 years.
Andre joined Apple in 1992 with Jony Ive and has been with Apple longer than Steve Jobs, who returned to the helm at the helm in late 1996.
According to the report, when Ive, who was responsible for the design of many mobile phones before the iPhone 11, left Apple to start LoveFrom, several designers who had worked with him also left with him.
Bart Andre has been helping to manage the design team since Ive's successor, Evans Hankey, left last year and is one of Apple's largest patent holders.
Following Evans Hankey's departure, Apple eliminated the position of director of industrial design, and the company's chief operating officer, Jeff Williams, led the design team directly, although reports said that some members of the design team were unhappy with the fact that the design team was led by operations staff rather than designers.
In addition, Tang Tan, Apple's head of product design for iPhone and Apple Watch, will leave in February; Steve Hotelling, vice president of touchscreen technology, health sensors and Face ID interaction, is also retiring.