It appears Apple’s “antennagate” fiasco has finally claimed its first casualty today. Mark Papermaster, head of Apple’s iPhone and iPod division, has left the company and Bob Mansfield, senior VP of the Macintosh hardware engineering division has assumed his responsibilities.
Papermaster joined Apple in late 2008 after working at IBM for 25 years. However, IBM took issue with the change of employment and filed a complaint in federal court against Papermaster claiming he had several highly confidential trade secrets of IBM. The two parties settled the case in January of 2009 with Papermaster testifying he had not revealed any trade secrets and also deferring employment with Apple until April 2009.
Papermaster declined to comment on his departure from Apple.
