“Kevin Packingham, the chief product officer for the mobile division of Samsung Electronics, who was involved in introducing several of Samsung’s popular Galaxy devices, has left the company,” Brian X. Chen reports for The New York Times.
“The reasons for Mr. Packingham’s departure were unclear. Samsung’s spokespeople declined to provide details on whether his exit was voluntary. The departure was announced internally as recently as Tuesday,” Chen reports. “‘Kevin Packingham has departed Samsung Mobile,’ said Ashley Wimberly, a Samsung Mobile spokeswoman, in a statement. ‘We thank Kevin for his contributions and wish him well in his future endeavors.'”
Chen reports, “Over his two years at Samsung Mobile, in Dallas, Mr. Packingham was instrumental in the global unveiling of the Galaxy S III smartphone, the first serious contender to Apple’s iPhone last year, in terms of sales. He was involved in the negotiations that enabled Samsung to release the smartphone on all of the big American carriers.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Maybe he woke up one day and decided he was finally sick and tired of doing the bidding of lying, cheating thieves?
Or maybe he realized that he’d be stuck trying to peddle 32-bit antiques for the foreseeable future, so he got going while the going was good?
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Fred Mertz” for the heads up.]
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As usual, Samsung-the-Mob committed crimes, non-Korean executives be the fall guy.
my 2 cents…
First team players hire other first team players. Second team players hire third team players. Cheating on benchmarks is definitely third team behavior.
Or maybe he was totally complicit in the fraud that is Samesong.
Maybe he was caught exaggerating the accomplishments on his résumé?
He’s just the first example of A7 road kill.
“…in terms of sales.” Uh… you mean shipments, right?
Samesung looking for a scapegoat as their complete ineptitude and 64-bit lack slowly sank into management’s psyche.
It could be that Kevin split before he could be fired for slipping up. He might have thought it an ideal time to dodge over to a waiting cubicle at Microsoft, who could use a man of his talents.
It could be that he was sent packing and paid to dummy up. Both the benchmarking shenanigans and the public relations flummery show incompetence in the arts of prevarication and fakery, two of Samsung’s best tools of persuasion.
Or, it could be a total coincidence.
Well, I guess we know (probably) where the benchmark cheating came from. Or, at least, who’s paying for it.
…more like, for letting the cat out of the bag.
Any use of the word ‘executive’ and the company Samsung is totally misplaced. More correct and appropriate terms like ‘conspirator’ should be applied.
It would be so nice to see them fall.
There’s only so long you can live with selling your Seoul.
Being a mobile chief counterfeiter apparently isn’t what it’s cracked up to be. I guess he just got tired of doing the sameshit everyday.
Maybe his photocopy machine broke.
“Maybe he woke up one day and decided he was …” not going to enhance his career working for a deceptive company.
He is probably heading to one of those Chinese companies whom they are the the leader in ripoff, and counterfeit market.
Oh yeah, what ever happened to the Android guy at XiaoMi? I’m sure he was a little depressed when he found out Google Services are blocked in China (oops), but was delighted to find the Escort Services in China to be top notch and very affordable.
No, ShameSong decided to copy Microsoft this time. They “fired” this guy to help get him hired at a top asian competitor, where he will proceed to wreck the company from the inside so ShameSong can buy up the scraps for a pittance in 2-3 years.
Thief product officer
Naw, none of you nailed it.
This is the guy responsible for the Stupidwatch fiasco!!!!
Betcha $10
WTF? Samsung hired a white guy? Pfft… I’m surprised he lasted this long!
*shakes head*
Samsung’s Electronics’ mobile chief departs…
IN SHAME
Shame? This is Scam-Dung, cheating is in their DNA.
He got CAUGHT