This week: Jony Ive’s big promotion has him leaving the design lab… is this step one of an Ive succession plan?  Plus: the surprising suitability of Ive’s replacement, Richard Howarth; Apple VP Jeff Williams let’s some curious Apple Car comments slip; why Apple Watch will get a lot faster come fall; Leander reveals his fetish for the weird whispering women of Youtube; and stay tuned till the end for a very romantic Get To Know Ur Cultist!
 
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This week’s links
 

Relax with Bob Ross and his happy little trees
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mT0RNrTDHkI


 

Leander’s weird whispering fetish videos!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=64&v=Kb27NHO_ubg
 
And check out Kahney’s Korner!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwc2BOpPTFw
 

Cars are ‘ultimate mobile device’ and other Apple insights from Jeff Williams - buster

http://www.cultofmac.com/324020/cars-are-ultimate-mobile-device-and-other-apple-insights-from-jeff-williams/#Bddm7qTBeSEiShJR.99
 

Everything we know about Richard Howarth, Apple’s new ‘badass’ head of industrial design

http://www.cultofmac.com/323877/everything-we-know-about-richard-howarth-apples-new-badass-head-of-industrial-design/#KSEUTAC04OMH3zDA.99
 

Apples Watch apps are about to get the speed boost they desperately need
http://www.cultofmac.com/324004/native-third-party-apple-watch-apps-are-coming-this-fall/#xIpdTYmcKQgjJuux.99