Decade of Decadence
– via Elite Daily & TUAW-
David Tupman presided over launches such as early generations of the iPod, as well as the first iPhone’s launch five years ago.
Tupman has more than 70 patents in his name. The move has puzzled observers, as it’s not clear where Tupman has gone – and he left as Apple’s results hit a high, driven largely by the success of its iPhone division.
Sources speaking to 9to5Mac said that Tumpan had left late last year. The site reported that his office phone line had been deactivated.
Tupman’s official title was Vice-President of Hardware Engineering, iPhone and iPod division. The engineer had risen through the ranks at mobile computing company Psion, before joining Apple a decade ago. Tupman reported to Tony Fadell, who led the team that designed the iPod at Apple. Fadell is often described as the ‘father’ of the iPod. Unconfirmed reports said that Tupman had joined Fadell at his new venture, hi-tech thermostat start-up Nest, but a spokesman denied that Tupman had joined the company.
Nest is the next generation of the digital home thermostat. Its motion sensors detect when people are in the room and can automatically adjust the room’s temperature. Nest also learns habits to automatically control the climate of the rooms that they’re installed in.
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