Report: Designer Ive not leaving Apple-PC Magazine

Apple's golden boy designer Jonathan Ive will not be leaving the company for his native Great Britain, according to a recent profile in the UK's daily mail.

Ive been with Apple for nearly two decades. He is behind the signature Apple design as the iMac, iPod, iPhone, and most recently, the iPad 2.

"Ive, Apple Inc. of an also-ran popular primarily with designers put in the second-largest company in the world, with a higher turnover than Google or Microsoft. He receives [24 million dollars] in Apple shares only next year, "said the Daily Mail.

The designer has reportedly married with Apple for the past three years by a $ 30 million "golden handcuffs" which just expired. Ive reportedly a desire to spend more time in the United Kingdom and proposed a plan that would allow him to "commute" back and forth between Cupertino and his manor in Somerset. Apple's Board of Directors reportedly shot down that request, I've left on an impasse, but that is not the case, said the Daily Mail.

Ive has no plans to depart from Apple, the newspaper reported. The story also debunked rumors that Ive is provided to take over for Apple chief Steve Jobs, who is currently on medical leave.

"It is difficult to know what is the larger intrigue: recent suspicion that [Ive] is willing to walk from Apple to move to his beautiful Grade-II-listed Manor House in Somerset, so his children can be trained in the United Kingdom (false-he is stapling property is now vacant); that he will step out of the shadows and Steve Jobs role when the big man down state (highly doubtful), "the report said.

In the profile specifies the Daily Mail a long look in the life of Ive, who is credited with a bunch of Apple's success in the last ten years. He talked about the unexpected sources of his inspiration for the sleek look of Apple products – from samurai swords to Sunflower stalks.

Ive the name had been mentioned as a possible successor to jobs for the first time that the CEO went on medical leave back in 2007. However, MacRumors noted that Ives is an unlikely candidate as he prefers to focus on design and behind the scenes work.

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