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Mr. Papermaster, the former head of hardware for Apple's iPhone, left the company this week, the New York Times reported. His departure comes little more than a year after his arrival at Apple from IBM, which sued to try to prevent him from joining a competitor.
The split comes after a flap over design complaints about the iPhone 4, released in June. The phone will lose reception and "drop" a call if held a certain way, some users found, a claim backed by Consumer Reports, which in July said that it could not recommend people buy the device. That led Apple to hold a press conference where CEO Steve Jobs announced a plan to issue free phone cases to mitigate the problem.
The free case program is expected to cost the company $175 million, and at its announcement, many in the tech world wondered whether heads would roll over the apparent design flaw.
Source: Andrew Heining, The Christian Science Monitor
