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Apple rehires former Newton
9 to 5 Mac - Apple Intelligence — http://www.flickr.com/photos/eschipul/ Michael Tchao joined Apple on Monday as vice president of product marketing. He will report to Phil Schiller, SVP of Marketing.  This is a much different role than that which he had before.  You see, Mr. Tchao was one of the guys who convinced then-Apple CEO John Scully of releasing the Newton tablet back in the early 90's. Mr. Tchao is returning to Apple after 15 years away from the company.  He was at ...

Newton Developer Returns to Apple as Marketing VP
The iPhone Blog — ... directly to Senior Vice-President, Phil Schiller. What’s noticeable about this new hire, however, is that Tchao has worked for Apple before — he’s one of the original developers of Apple’s Newton message pad. Apple, Tchao, and all involved are being mum on what Tchao’s specific roll at Apple will be, but rampant internet speculation has, of course, gone something like “ZOMG! iTablet!” [New York Times, Photo via http://www.flickr.com/photos/eschipul/] This is a story by the iPhone Blog. This ...