Mark Papermaster begins work at Apple on April 24th, for real this time

Well, it looks like the long saga of Mark Papermaster's transition from IBM to Apple is now finally drawing to a close, with the two companies each issuing press releases today announcing that the pesky legal issues have been resolved and that Papermaster is cleared to begin work on April 24th. He'll be replacing Tony Fadell as head of Apple's iPod and iPhone hardware engineering teams, and will boast the title of senior vice president of Devices Hardware Engineering, reporting directly to Steve Jobs. Dueling press releases are below.

Read - Apple, "Mark Papermaster to Begin at Apple as Senior Vice President of Devices Hardware Engineering on April 24"
Read - IBM, "IBM Resolves Lawsuit against Former Employee Mark D. Papermaster"

[Via Mac Rumors]

[nuzzy Posted Jan 27th 2009 8:50PM]

That picture is probably at least two years old. Jon Rubenstein is in that pic and he's been at Palm for almost two years now.

[Gregorian Posted Jan 27th 2009 9:22PM]

And Steve has a bit of meat in his cheeks.

[Atlantian Posted Jan 27th 2009 10:18PM]

so basicly the new guy is going to sneek ibm tech int o apple bye changing it alittle and adding an apple logo on top

[A7 Posted Jan 27th 2009 11:54PM]

And this is interesting how.....? We have a new tea lady at work. Lolita will work Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. Try harder Donaldinho, cmon :p

[Lando Calrissian Posted Jan 28th 2009 12:05AM]

Ugh, shut the fuck up. You can thank IBM for making computers the way they are today.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 28th 2009 12:24AM]

Well iPhone did get outsold by WinMo devices,

So you account for this how again....?

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 28th 2009 2:21PM]

I think Papermaster should sue IBM for lost wages.

[samiles Posted Aug 7th 2010 5:30PM]

is tha a rlal picture?