Senior Vice-President and Head of the Devices Hardware Engineering Department of Apple, Mark Papermaster, left the company, reported the New York Times.
Mr Papermaster came to Apple from IBM in 2008. In the new place he was responsible for iPod and iPhone development.
According to some observers, the reason of Mr Papermaster’s resign was the notorious problem with the iPhone 4 antenna, which made Apple start giving away free cases for this smartphone.
The former Vice-President didn’t comment his resign. The speaker from Apple, Steve Dowling, confirmed Mark Papermaster’s resign having mentioned that his duties passed to Bob Mansfield, Senior Vice-President and Head of the Mac Hardware Engineering Department.
By the way, Mr Papermaster didn’t take part in the conference dedicated to the ‘case distribution’. Steve Jobs, Bob Mansfield and the main operation director Tim Cook carry his can.
By the way, iPhone application development is probably the most rapidly developing trend in the sphere of mobile application development at present. So any change in the management may influence it.
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Apple presented its quarterly report for the third financial quarter ended at the end of June, which was so expected by specialists. As it was expected, the report turned out to be positive due to high sales of iPhone 4 smartphones and new iPad devices (at the same time, the demand for products from 
Once again Google shared the statistics of the growing popularity of the Google Android platform. According to it, 160,000 devices pass daily activation (4.8 mln a month).
After starting taking preliminary orders for iPhone 4, Apple and AT&T encountered some technical problems on their websites because of the boom from the side of buyers, reported Reuters. Apple even had to disconnect the hotline because of the excessive number of phone calls.
The AT&T company has found a gap in the iPad security system. The owners of the latest Apple’s gadget have sent the corresponding notification about the leakage of e-mail addresses. The group of hackers announced that it was able to crack users’ devices connected via the authorized wireless access. AT&T claims that the given vulnerability has already been eliminated.
A 19-year-old boy from Tokyo (Takechiyo Yamanaka) who wanted to be one of the first iPad owners in Japan took his place before the Apple store almost 2 days before the start of sales. In the morning of the 28th of May, the about 1,2 thousand people formed a queue of 800 meters. A similar situation was usual also in other countries.
