Not so long ago, Apple and IBM clashed because of the hiring of Mark Papermaster for the position of senior vice president of the device hardware engineering department. Now let's join “device hardware engineering” beautiful repercussion of the case "Antennagate".
Boom! It's the New York Times brought the news that Papermaster left Apple. According to a spokesman for Ma, Papermaster's roles and responsibilities will pass to Bob Mansfield, current vice president of hardware engineering for the Macintosh. It has not been confirmed whether the former IBM employee left Apple willingly or whether he would have been stevado; contacted by phone, he declined to comment on the case.
John Gruber believes in the possibility of involuntary dismissal: according to him, Papermaster was "the guy responsible for the antenna" and his absence at the press conference held on July 16 was very suspicious. However, as you well noted in the TechCrunch, during visits to the Infinite Loop test lab it was mentioned that the iPhone 4 project had been tested for two years, perhaps too long for Papermaster to have had a major role in the design of this hardware.
Whatever happened, one thing is certain: the Apple executive page dawned this Saturday with 12 names, but will arrive on Sunday with just 11.
