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Apple head of iPhone engineering leaving after iPhone 4 debacle

article published on 8 August, 2010

Apple's senior VP of engineering Mark Papermaster is leaving the company, says The NYTimes, following the recent "antennagate" debacle of the iPhone 4. Apple spokesman Steve Dowling confirmed the report, and added that his position will be taken over by Bob Mansfield, VP of Macintosh engineering. Papermaster was formally IBM's vice president of microprocessor technology development, ... [ read the full article ]

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biglo30
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_ 		8. August 2010 @ 01:32 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
If you ask me I think he was actually laid off, but I would like to see more on this story.
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ST2006
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_ 		8. August 2010 @ 10:04 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I definitely agree to the above two comments, cuz we all know Steve Jobs is a twat after all and this sounds like something their executives would do !!!!
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KillerBug
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_ 		8. August 2010 @ 10:51 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
"Apple has repaired the situation by offering all iPhone 4 owners free cases for their devices, eliminating the problem."

They seem to have defused the media attention, but they still have not repaired the problem. The closest thing to a repair I have seen is the clear nailpolish...and apple has yet to send out free bottles of nail polish to their customers.
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bam431
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_ 		8. August 2010 @ 16:43 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
"While many believe that Papermaster's departure is directly correlated to "antennagate,"
Sounds like he'd be better off making printer anyways. AMIRITE
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robertmro
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_ 		10. August 2010 @ 09:41 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
The real reason is that Papermaster couldn't adapt to the Apple culture after working at Big Blue (which is very corporate).
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Gnawnivek
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_ 		10. August 2010 @ 15:56 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
No, the article I read says that the iPhone 4 design has the antenna issue a year ago. Papermaster was aware of the issue that the engineers pointed out and he recommended to fix the problem before release the product. However, Job loved the design so much that nobody dare to redesign it and hence it was released with the antenna issue. Of course, Papermaster's resignation is to take the heat off Job. After all, if the Consumer Report is not going to recommend the iPhone 4, that's bad news isn't it?

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