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I think it's nonsense that Ive would be working on future Apple Stores or even spending much time on Campus 2 (it has largely been already designed). Pretty clear he will be spending more time with Marc Newson designing the next category of products i.e. the much rumoured Apple Car.

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I think there's a very good chance he'll be working on Apple Store design, alongside Angela Ahrendts. I think there's a very good chance she'll want a redesign and, for something so critical to Apple's success, Ive will definitely want to be involved.

He was involved in the design of the new Apple Watch display tables[1] that have arrived in Apple stores, as mentioned in the fairly recent interview with Ive in The New Yorker, so I don't see any reason why he wouldn't be involved in store design, too.

[1] https://9to5mac.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/watch4.png

> (it has largely been already designed).

Did you read one of his interviews? For the campus, he's personally designing new doorways and new hallways and prototyping 50 kinds of cafeteria seating and two dozen other things... kinda crazy, but perfection isn't going to make itself.

I worked on Campus 2 for quite a while. I can testify that Ive was present in meetings for the project. Quite regularly. It's not really relevant that the basic design is complete; Ive is heavily involved with the execution.

>the much rumoured Apple Car.

That's a serious rumor? The amount of critical parts in designing a car seems so overwhelming, I don't even see Apple having any real advantage, here. No real overlap with Apple's strengths. Even Google will probably at best just sell their navigation software, not full blown cars. Speaking of Google... maybe an Apple version of Google Glass?

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