Ive and Steve Jobs were known to be friends as well as collaborators.
Ive has said the name of his new firm, LoveFrom, was inspired by a conversation he had with Jobs.
According to Ive, Jobs [said] that one of the fundamental motivations was that when you make something with love and with care, even though you probably will never meet . . . the people that you're making it for, and you'll never shake their hand, by making something with care, you are expressing your gratitude to humanity, to the species."