Bob the Apple guided tour guy leaves for greener pastures

Apple's guided tour videos have featured an endless variety of creepy-android perfect "Apple Store employees" in the recent past, but we'd just like to take a moment and pour one out for OG Bob Borchers, who kicked off the entire series in 2007 with the original iPhone tours and followed 'em up with the iPhone 3G tour. Bob's leaving his post as Apple's senior director of worldwide iPhone product marketing to join VC group Opus Capital -- yeah, it's not hard gadget news, but we're getting a little misty on Sunday evening remembering how closely we all watched those initial demos looking for any tiny nuggets of information about the then-mysterious platform. Peace out, Bob -- it's been a ride. Video after the break.

[Garst Posted Jun 28th 2009 10:34PM]

So he escaped the black room Apple kept him locked in, where he was force to drink his own urine for sustenance? I don't blam him from seeking a job somewhere else. :-)

[solidsnake16 Posted Jun 28th 2009 10:50PM]

i love apple products and the company itself, but it must be a slow, slow day for gadget news. especially given the fact that macrumors broke this story friday morning who took the story from the wall street journal after they broke it on thursday. come on engadget, for being pretty much the biggest blog ever you have truly disappointed your loyal readers. this story is a travesty on many levels.

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 28th 2009 11:06PM]

Pretty sure they're running this exactly because it's slow, not like stuff happens on Sunday night anyway.

[solidsnake16 Posted Jun 28th 2009 11:09PM]

it is always slow on the weekend, regardless, i'm not just saying this to be cool or funny but in actuality this is not engadget news, and it's not even really "news". its 3 days old and not worth reporting on. i would rather not read about anything than have them subject us to a story thats old and irrelevant just to meet a quota.

[MichaelB Posted Jun 28th 2009 11:02PM]

the only thing that can come close to beat the iphone in sales is if Microsoft made a zune phone(it is rumored)

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 29th 2009 1:41AM]

Yeah, kinda like the way the Zune came close to beating the iPod in sales.

LOL.

[MichaelB Posted Jun 29th 2009 9:01AM]

zune had the best start out of any mp3 player.
and the zune is the only mp3 play thats even threating the ipod (give the zune some time and i think it will get a bigger and bigger market share)

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 28th 2009 11:04PM]

A holster guy. 100%.

[CJ100570 Posted Jun 29th 2009 12:37AM]

Good Riddance To Apple Rubbish

[peepeeland Posted Jun 29th 2009 2:16AM]

Nice article pic! First I thought it was a bottle of urine, but then I realized it's a thin 40...

When I was in 7th grade, me and my friends pissed in a large water bottle. I then poured it out in the dorm hallway. Good times!

Love,
Jason

[absurdio Posted Jun 29th 2009 3:10AM]

Oh. So, when you say this Bob fella left to "join [a] VC group," you probably mean "venture capital," not "viet cong."

For a second, this story was getting really interesting.

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 29th 2009 8:56AM]

He looks like Stephen Colbert

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 29th 2009 10:33AM]

It's like losing Ellen Feiss all over again! ;-(

[atlasfugged Posted Jun 29th 2009 6:24PM]

is that a 40oz. or a jug of pee?