Breaking the news on Mastodon<\/a>, Bloomberg\u2019s Mark Gurman said:<\/p>\n Apple\u2019s top design executive Alan Dye is leaving the iPhone maker to become the Chief Design Officer at Meta in a blockbuster coup for the social networking giant and big loss for Apple.<\/p>\n Mark Gurman<\/p>\n This is such Dye-friendly framing that one might be excused for thinking it was written by Alan Dye\u2019s mom. It wasn\u2019t. Or probably wasn\u2019t, anyway.<\/p>\n Wouldn\u2019t that be wild if Mark Gurman\u2019s source this whole time has been Alan Dye\u2019s mom? That would be an unexpected turn of events.<\/p>\n In reality, few people in the Apple community\u2013other than Dye\u2019s mom\u2013think much of his work, which includes Liquid Glass and a number of horrible icons for macOS Tahoe. People not really seeing this as a \u201cbig loss\u201d for Apple include, but are not limited to, Louie Mantia<\/a>, John Gruber<\/a>, Jason Snell<\/a>, Nick Heer<\/a>, Macworld contributor Alex Blake<\/a>, and this furry observer.<\/p>\n Apple usually has good people waiting in the wings, and, in this instance at least, we have good reason to think the replacement will not only be good\u00a0but<\/a> a real upgrade<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u2026everyone I\u2019ve spoken to is happy\u2009\u2014\u2009if not downright giddy\u2009\u2014\u2009at the news that Lemay is replacing Dye. Lemay is well-liked personally and deeply respected talent-wise. Said one source, in a position to know the choices, \u201cI don\u2019t think there was a better choice than Lemay.\u201d<\/p>\n John Gruber<\/a><\/p>\n Later in the week, Apple also announced several other executives changes<\/a>, including the retirements of general counsel Kate Adams and VP of Environment, Policy and Social Initiatives Lisa Jackson. Adams will be replaced by ex-Meta chief legal officer Jennifer Newstead, and Jackson by a line on the org chart that is more often used on football locker room whiteboards to represent an end-run.<\/p>\n If you\u2019d like to receive regular news and updates to your inbox, sign up for\u00a0our newsletters<\/a>, including The Macalope and Apple Breakfast<\/a>, David Price\u2019s weekly, bite-sized roundup of all the latest Apple news and rumors.<\/p>\n Foundry<\/p>\n While many people were leaving Apple, at least one was trying to get back in. This news, that a man would like power and command the likes of which he has never wielded before, is huge, if true. Who, exactly, is saying this, you may wonder.<\/p>\n \u2026Tony Fadell, a former Apple hardware executive who co-invented the iPod, has told associates recently\u2026<\/p>\n Aaron Tilley and Wayne Ma, The Information<\/a><\/p>\n Someone told The Information that Tony Fadell said he would graciously accept the position of Apple CEO. Okay.<\/p>\n Just, for a second here, entertain the following: would it not be absolutely wild if The Information\u2019s source here is Tony Fadell\u2019s mom? Wilder still, Fadell and Dye were at Apple at the same time, so it\u2019s theoretically possible the source is again Dye\u2019s mom, but let\u2019s not get crazy here and go with the single mother theory. The two-moms hypothesis seems more reasonable.<\/p>\n Sadly for Fadell, no matter who the sources are and how many times he writes \u201cMr. Apple CEO Tony Fadell\u201d on the cover of his Trapper Keeper<\/a>, he is not going to get the gig. Even The Information says he was \u201ca polarizing figure\u201d when he worked at Apple, and his time at Nest doesn\u2019t seem to have burnished his reputation much<\/a> as he rubbed his co-founder and employees equally the wrong way.<\/p>\n Well, at least we can settle down now that all the Apple executive news is-<\/p>\n![\"Macalope\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/macalope-2021-100915055-orig.jpg\")
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