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John Stauffer, Top Apple Executive Who Pushed for Shift to Cloud, Leaves for Roblox
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John Stauffer, Top Apple Executive Who Pushed for Shift to Cloud, Leaves for Roblox

[ad_1] Apple's top executive is leaving the iPhone maker to join Roblox Corp., adding to a string of recent high-profile departures. Apple Inc.'s top executive in charge of media-related software technology is leaving the iPhone maker to join Roblox Corp., adding to a string of recent high-profile departures. John Stauffer is exiting Apple after about 24 years to become a vice president of engineering at the online gaming platform. He was one of a handful of company vice presidents to report directly to software engineering chief Craig Federighi. The departure adds to upheaval at Apple, with a series of vice presidents leaving in recent months. The company's head of procurement was ousted in September, while its chief privacy officer, head of industrial design, chief information ...
Not just WhatsApp, Apple iMessage, FaceTime suffer outage too
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Not just WhatsApp, Apple iMessage, FaceTime suffer outage too

[ad_1] Apple said issues that had caused a brief outage in its iMessage service and video calling app FaceTime were resolved. Apple Inc said on Tuesday issues that had caused a brief outage in its iMessage service and video calling app FaceTime were resolved. Users had earlier complained of not being able to send and receive text messages on iMessage and some reported problems with placing FaceTime calls. More than 2,000 users reported issues with sending messages on the app, according to outage tracking website Downdetector. Downdetector tracks outages by collating status reports from several sources including user-submitted errors on its platform. The outage may be affecting a larger number of users. Earlier on Tuesday, Meta Platforms Inc's WhatsApp faced a global outage, wh...