“Apple is notoriously protective of its employees and the inner workings of its research and development teams are highly secretive,” Richard Gray reports for The Telegraph. “However, examining patents and publicly available information can provide an intriguing insight into the engineers and designers behind the company’s products. Here are some of the key figures who played a role in the development of the latest iPhones.”
“Sir Jonathan, or Jony as he likes to be called, is perhaps the most obvious person to mention,” Gray reports. “Until recently he was in charge of Apple’s industrial design team, a role he started in 1996. He is now the Senior Vice President of Design at Apple and oversees the design of all of Apple’s i-devices, including the iPod, iPhone and iPad.”
Gray reports on:
• Benjamin Pope – the Antarctic researcher: The first of four Apple engineers who invented the Touch ID fingerprint scanning technology that appears on the iPhone 5S.
• Mark Zimmer – the mathematician: One of four engineers named on the patent behind Apple’s new Parallax technology that gives the wallpaper and screen a more three dimensional feel.
• Geoff Stahl – the TopGun instructor: Another of the inventors named on a patent for Parallex, Mr Stahl is the director of graphics and imaging at Apple.
• Nicholas Merz – the bell-tower restoration enthusiast: A senior product designer at Apple who also worked on the fingerprint sensor, he studied at Stanford Univrsity and the California College of the Arts.
• Scott Myers: Another of the engineers who worked on the fingerprint technology… He is also credited with a patent for a wrap-around, flexible display.
• Daniel Jarvis – the linguist: Another of the engineers who helped to invent the fingerprint recognition technology.
Read more in the full article here.
Engineers, you can’t work with them and you can’t shoot them.
Conceited bastards.
This is what I love about Tim Cook’s Apple. He doesn’t mind letting the people who did the work get some publicity. He doesn’t need to be the only face of Apple like Steve did.
Steve was only like that in early years.
On his return to Apple there was a huge appreciation for team.. and yes there is a “t” in his name.
Thanks to
Benjamin Pope, Mark Zimmer, Geoff Stahl,
Nicholas Merz, Scott Myers and Daniel Jarvis for your contributions to bettering the iPhone.
Now who are the ones’ responsible for advancing iPhone to the A7 and M7?
How about naming and shaming the idiots who wrote android.
That OS iS the biggest pos ever.
Any word on the rest of the design team, so we can hunt them down with torches and pitchforks?
How many of them would look like Obama’s son, if he had a son?
Apple really made a great great aqcusition in Authen Tech. They secured an important technology, engineers and patents. At the time I had no thought what it would be good for to buy the whole company. I thought Apple would have problems coming up with uses for Authen Tech’s technologies. Obviously they already knew what they were going to do with it. And before that they bought PA-Semi. I had no idea how much it would mean for Apple, how good it would be and what a powerful advantage it would give them. Even Microsoft have now bought the highest license for ARM and will probably design stuff themselves. Goosung is already doing it I believe at least in part for some of their phones where they don’t use the SnapDragon. Apple really sees into the future and has the patience to wait. Work on things now and buy technology that will be ready to make it into the iPhone in 2 years. They spent about 200 million in PA-Semi, how much haven’t they gotten from that? Amazing. Revenu, telnet and engineering skills, patents.
Talent*
Not telnet…