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Tuesday November 4, 2008
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 You may not know of Tony Fadell, but there's a pretty good chance that you carry around a piece of his legacy: Fadell served as Apple's top engineer when the iPod came to be. Fortune describes his influence on the company:
He came up with the idea of marrying a Napster-like music store with a hard drive-based MP3 player. He shopped the concept around the Valley before Apple's Jon Rubinstein snapped it up and put Fadell in charge of the engineering team that built the first iPod.
Fadell is leaving the company for still undisclosed "personal reasons." He will be replaced by IBM's Mark Papermaster.
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November 4, 2008 12:00 PM
Not to worry, as long as Mr. Jobs is around, Apple is cool
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November 4, 2008 12:48 PM
Personal reasons? Well, there's got to be alot of pressure in that field to continue to compete with competitors, especially when you have devices like the new Krave (motorola.com/krave) hitting the market...