Apple is known for beautiful, expensive products that get replaced often, either for status or because the battery is dying. When longtime designer Jony Ive left Apple last month to form his own design company, a lot of people reflected on his time at Apple: his influence on creating products that were hard to repair, prioritizing thinness and beauty over reliability, and whether, as Apple gears up to announce new iPhones this fall, that might change now that Ive is gone. (7/22/2019)