Apple today announced that Mark Papermaster will indeed be coming to Apple as senior vice president of Devices Hardware Engineering, reporting to Apple CEO Steve Jobs, on April 24.
The news follows weeks of wrangling between Apple and IBM, the latter firm had blocked the appointment arguing its former executive knew too many trade secrets to work at a competing firm. How the situation was resolved has not been disclosed.
Apple’s iPod plans took a hit last night when a New York judge banned newly-recruited team leader, Mark Papermaster, from taking employment with the Cupertino company.
Apple this week announced it had hired Papermaster away from IBM, where he led that company’s server operations. Papermaster is to replace Tony Fadell (who resigned Apple this week) as head of Apple’s iPod group. (Senior Vice President of Devices Hardware Engineering).