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iPod creator leaves Apple
No, it is not Steve Jobs
The father of the iPod, Tony Fadell, has packed in his job at Apple after seven years changing the company’s fortunes.
You might not have heard about Fadell. Apple does not tend to mention him much and he never appeared on the stage with Steve Jobs, nor has it mentioned that he was going. Fadell has been part of Apple's iPod group since 2001, as the inaugural member of the iPod engineering team. He was promoted to head of the division in 2006, succeeding Jon Rubenstein.
More than anyone Fadell can be credited with Apple's renaissance in personal computers and its entry into mobile computing. The company flogged 54.7 million iPods during its last fiscal year, which ended in September. The interest in ipods is fading fast.
Fadell is to be replaced by former IBM executive Mark Papermaster, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal. It had been thought that he was set to assume a role leading chip design at Apple. For some reason he is being shunted into Apple's music player division.
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