Jony Ive recounts the time Steve Jobs called him vain

Jony recounts the time he asked Steve Jobs to be less harsh in his critique of a piece of work.

When Steve asked “why?”, Jony replied: “Well, because I care about the team.”

Steve then said, as Jony puts it, “this brutally, brilliantly, insightful thing”:

“No Jony, you’re just really vain. You just want people to like you. And I’m surprised at you because I thought you really held the work up as the most important—not how you believe you are perceived by other people.”

Jony reflects on the remark:

“I was terribly cross because I knew he was right.”

Full video: Vanity Fair “Apple's Jony Ive on the Lessons He Learned From Steve Jobs” (Oct 2014)