Key iPhone Air designer leaves Apple for AI startup | Infinium-tech
Abidur Chowdhury, the lead designer who worked on the iPhone Air, has left the company and joined an unnamed AI startup, insiders have been quoted as saying. bloomberg,
Chaudhary can be seen in the iPhone Air introductory video embedded below. Although insiders claim that he was not the sole driving force behind the design, his departure has had an impact on the design team.
Chaudhary joined Apple about six years ago — around the same time that famed designer Jony Ive left to form his own creative agency called LoveFrom. Another project Ive was involved in, called io, was bought by OpenAI (but Ive and LoveFrom are independent).
Anyway, the iPhone Air isn’t selling well – and sales performance is reportedly unrelated to why Chaudhary left – but at least Apple hasn’t agreed to it. We’ve heard rumors that the iPhone Air 2 is delayed, but not canceled. Things are not looking so good for Samsung’s Galaxy S26 Edge.
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