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Chip Guru Papermaster Loses Signal At Apple
ColdWetDog writes "Computerworld reports that Mark Papermaster has left his job as Apple's Senior Vice President of Devices Hardware Engineering. He was the senior executive in charge of engineering for the iPhone 4 and thus responsible in some unknown fashion for 'antennagate.' His name may ring bells from previous coverage of his jump from IBM to Apple. From a brief blurb on Daring Fireball: 'From what I've heard, it's clear he was canned. Papermaster was a conspicuous absence at the Antennagate press conference. Inside Apple, he's "the guy responsible for the antenna" — that's a quote from a source back on July 23. (Another quote from the same source: "Apparently the antenna guys used to have a big chip on their shoulder. No more.")'" Update: 08/08 03:01 GMT by KD : Swapped out a registration-required NY Times link for a Computerworld one; corrected the direction of Papermaster's career move.
The fanbois haven't gotten the word yet because their antennas don't work.
Watergate-gate?
Same reason everyone uses *zilla to describe something big. Its part of modern culture.
The use of *gate is so common now, perhaps the phenomenon should be called gatezilla.
It's how new language elements are invented. If somebody ever launches a space probe to a false star, they will call the scandal "Stargate".
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I just have to wonder what was in the conversation between Jobs and Papermaster. If Papermaster is the true mastermind of antennagate, may the heavens have mercy on his soul... Jobs would be pissed .
...and...so what? Jobs would have a hissy fit and stamp his feet and cry? He'd throw a bamboo latte at him?
A five-year-old girl could beat up Steve Jobs.
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They sent him to Russia because there is almost no english language reporting about the Russian oil industry, and out of sight is out of mind.
Specifically, they sent him to Siberia. Isn't that pretty much the ISO-approved punishment for screw-ups?
Watergate-gate?
Just wait until a RAM manufacturer botches a major shipment of DDRx:
:)
NAND-gate