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A couple of things to note about Jony Ive. One, he's from Chingford, a painfully unfashionable suburb of London in Essex, the brunt of most geographically targeted UK humour.

And two: he studied at Newcastle Polytechnic (as I believe it was then), about as far as you can get from the hallowed halls of Oxford and Cambridge (both physically and metaphorically) whilst still staying in higher education in the UK.

In short - it's not where you come from, it's what you do.




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