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).
In the nearest future the producers of smartphones RIM and Nokia will face the problem of changing their positions at the market. The reason of this will become the actions of Apple and Google. The analytics from Goldman Sachs’ warned about this after analyzing the state of retail sales of smartphones in the US.
According to the research company In-Stat, the competition in the OS market is shifting from software basic capabilities to functionality and ‘user’s experience’ which the phone can provide. Smartphones and communicators will develop not only at the programming level but also at the hardware level – sensor screens with high resolution, high-quality cameras, communication tools.
