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.

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Re:This is the difference between Apple and MS

[Joce640k]

a) They released Vista first (should never have been released)

b) LOADs of minor niggles and things that are now *worse* than XP, especially in Windows Explorer - the front end to the files, the most important thing in the machine and the only thing an OS should do really well.

I'd make a list but I can't be bothered and there's probably hundreds of web pages dedicated to it.

c) What exactly makes it better then XP? Where exactly is the "wow!"? The only things I can think of are a slightly better taskbar with previews and the ability to type in the 'start' menu. Everything else seems like a pointless renaming and reshuffling. Is that it? Billions of dollars and eight years spent for that...? I'm looking around at all my collection of now-useless hardware and wondering if it was really worth it.

The only reason I upgraded was I needed 64-bits to work with some big files. Apart from that I'm not the slightest bit more productive with Windows 7 then I was with XP.