Papermaster’s exit from Apple was cultural, not iPhone 4 specific
The Wall Street Journal (and the often informed Yukari Iwatani Kane) are reporting that while it’s unknown how much iPhone 4 antennagate and white iPhone 4 delays played in SVP of mobile hardware, Mark Papermaster’s exit from Apple, there were broader cultural issues at play:
Mr. Papermaster had lost the confidence of Mr. Jobs [...]
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Mark Papermaster, head of iPhone hardware, leaves Apple
Mark Papermaster, whose departure from IBM for Apple led to some high profile legal wrangling, has now left Apple — chronologically following the antennagate saga, though no direct correlation has been reported. Apple spokesman Steve Dowling told the New York Times:
[Papermaster] is leaving the company and Bob Mansfield, senior vice president of Macintosh [...]
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Jeff Williams promoted to Senior Vice President of Operations, taking charge of Apple product quality
AppleInsider is reporting that Jeff Williams, who’s been at Apple for over a decade, has just been promoted to Senior Vice President of Operations and tasked with making sure Apple products meet “the highest quality standards”.
It’s hard not to imagine this as anything other than a response to “antennagate” and other iPhone 4 problems, though [...]
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