It has been confirmed by Apple that Mark Papermaster will be leaving Apple. Papermaster previously had held the position of Senior Vice President of Devices Hardware Engineering within Apple and was of course in charge of much of the iPhone 4′s production.
Papermaster joined Apple with much controversy in 2009 and officially began working on April 24, 2009.
Papermaster will be replaced by Bob Mansfield who is already in charge of some of the iPhone 4′s components namely the A4 processor, retina display and touch screens according to an Apple spokesperson. Some will not be surprised by this decision with Mansfieled being present at last months iPhone 4 press conference and Papermaster was notably not.
Parallels between Papermaster and the troublesome iPhone 4 antenna are easy to make but taking into account Papermaster’s time at Apple it is likely that Apple was well into the development of the external antenna design when the executive took his position.
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