Jonathan Ive departed the UK for sunny California because of a man wearing a red clown nose, according to a profile of the Apple design supremo on the Daily Mail website.
At the time Jony Ive – the Essex-born guru behind the iMac, MacBook Air, iPod, iPad and iPhone – was working at a British design consultancy called Tangerine, headed by Clive Grinyer. And Grinyer says that Britain lost his talent after one particular incident.
