macdailynews.com - 11/17/2008
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A series of statements made in court filings by tentative iPod & iPhone chief Mark Papermaster and those who...
appleinsider.com - 11/13/2008
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appleinsider.com —
A series of statements made in court filings
by tentative iPod & iPhone chief Mark Papermaster and...
those who recruited him at Apple show that the company at first considered him a secondary pick. They also reveal that IBM's own management has ...
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Docs show Apple failed to find ideal successor for iPod ...
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Mark Papermaster Was Not the Proverbial “First Choice”: This Surprises People?
TheAppleBlog —
... ones.”
The above line, from the Disney movie Miracle, is delivered by the coach of the USA hockey team when an assistant coach questions some of his choices for the final roster. It seems very apt when looking at Apple’s hire of Mark Papermaster.
Sometimes I’m surprised at the what the Apple blogging community considers newsworthy. Maybe “slow news days” really do exist, because it’s otherwise hard to understand why anything would be made of the fact that Mark Papermaster was not initially Apple’s “first ...
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Court Blocks Papermaster from Starting Work at Apple
cultofmac.com 11/11/2008 —
A federal court judge on Friday granted a preliminary injunction requested by IBM that ordered Mark Papermaster to cease working for Apple until further notice.
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The Papermaster Chase: IBM exec was not Apple's first pick
arstechnica.com 11/17/2008 — Court documents reveal that Mark Papermaster was not Apple's first pick to replace iPod VP Tony Fadell, and that his experience with POWER was not critical to Apple's decision to offer him a job. Read More...
Why did Apple hire away IBM's Mark Papermaster?
blogs.computerworld.com 11/3/2008 — The news of this fairly slow week for Apple watchers came in the form of a lawsuit from Apple's one-time PowerPC partner, IBM, who are apparantly are trying to protect some chip design IP. What is Apple going to do with Mr. Papermaster?
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Mark Papermaster trial between Apple and IBM gets ugly
blogs.computerworld.com 11/11/2008 — The Mark Papermaster saga is getting crazier and crazier. As of today, Papermaster "will immediately cease his employment with Apple Inc. until further order of this court," U.S. District Judge Kenneth Karas in White Plains, New York, said today in ...
Mark Papermaster to Begin Work at Apple on April 24th
macrumors.com 1/27/2009 — Apple has announced that Mark Papermaster will begin work at Apple as Senior Vice President of Devices Hardware Engineering on April 24th, 2009. Apple today announced that Mark Papermaster will be coming to Apple as senior vice presid...
Striking it rich with iPhone —
Apple Hot News 11/19/2008
When Trism hit the App Store, life changed for 29-year-old Steve Demeter, relates Brandon Griggs (cnn.com). In just two months, Trism netted the former ATM software designer a cool $250,000, encouraging him to found his own iPhone game development ...
Games “come of age on the iPhone 3G” —
Apple Hot News 11/20/2008
“Watch out, Nintendo. This game is just getting started,” warns Dean Takahashi (venturebeat.com). “Thanks to the multi-touch display, great sound, good graphics, and the accelerometer-based tilt feature,” iPhone 3G offers serious competition as a ...
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