Sam Altman says Jobs would have been proud Ive’s latest move

In their comprehensive report about the bombshell acquisition of Jony Ive’s AI startup by OpenAI, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman and Shirin Ghaffary said OpenAI’s CEO believed Apple’s co-founder would have been “‘damn proud’ of Ive’s latest move”.

He may be right.

Then vs. now

Jobs and Ive’s partnership has been well-documented and widely discussed over the years, so there’s no need to revisit it. What’s more interesting is what Ive’s deeply conceptual (and…