This in inarguably cool. Author, investor, and all-around tinkerer Tony Fadell has posted an extremely cool tweet showing the prototypes for the first iPods, which were printed around May or June of 2001. The units were 3D-printed and offered an idea as to what the engineers could expect to work with and what the users […]
In November of 2008, Apple hired IBM’s Mark Papermaster to be Apple’s Senior Vice President of Devices Hardware Engineering, thereby replacing Tony Fadell as head of Apple’s iPod and iPhone divisions. A court deal later forced Papermaster to wait until April 2009 before starting at Apple. Sixteen months later, Papermaster is out. Per The Apple […]