Top Stories: Jony Ive Leaving Apple, iOS 13 and macOS Catalina Public Betas, 16″ MacBook Pro

The big news of this week was obviously the announcement that Jony Ive will be leaving Apple to start his own design firm, but there was plenty of other news including a surprise early launch of public betas of iOS 13, macOS Catalina, and tvOS 13.

Read on below for a summary of all our top stories from this week.

Apple’s Longtime Design Chief Jony Ive Leaving to Start New Design Company With Apple as a Primary Client

It feels like it’s been a long time coming, but it was still a bit of a surprise this week when Apple announced that design chief Jony Ive will be departing the company to start his own design firm. It sounds like it won’t be a clean break, as Apple says it will be a “primary client” of Ive’s new firm, but we’ll have to see how much influence he ends up having on Apple’s future products.

In the wake of the announcement, Bloomberg took a look back at the last few years of Ive’s tenure at Apple, noting that his involvement in Apple’s product design began tapering off as long as four years ago following the introduction of the original Apple Watch. Ive turned his attention to the company’s Apple Park campus, and even limited the time he spent at Apple’s…