How to pronounce “jony” in English

Sir Jony Ive gave a memorial address at Steve Jobs' funeral, and he said the following.

or Jony Ive's people would have a conversation about what the product would look like.

And Sir Jony Ive said, most of the time, the ideas were totally dopey.

As only Sir Jony Ive can say.

He met Jony Ive every day to talk about ideas.

We went to Jony Ive and Angela Ahrendts at Apple.

It was actually Jony Ive's first job at Apple was to design the Newton.

And again Jony Ive has become famous as the head of industrial design at Apple, but what's less well understood is just how important his seat at the table has been.

It reminds me of something actually Jony Ive said. So Jony Ive is the famous Apple designer that designed all the Apple products that we know and love.

So the last of the Jony Ive-designed MacBook Pros that were too thin and had keyboard issues and overheated...

Hey, Jony, want to hear a dopey idea?

But he would work with everybody from the hardware designers like Jony Ive to the software people and just sort of say no, that doesn’t feel right.

And not only to work in partnership but to create a collaborative team around him of great designers like Jony Ive and software people like Phil Schiller and Johnny Rubinstein.

Now he would talk intuitively about why the iPad had to have a curved thing, or what he did in Jony Ive's studio.

And you can glean this from the fact that at Apple it would be inconceivable for say a financial person to sit in on the same early product development meeting where Jony Ive

But he felt that, you know, just by walking through Jony Ives design studio and touching a few things and talking to people he could collaborate by being in a physical space better