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While you might think that Apple products emerge from Steve Jobs' head, fully formed and perfect like any other offspring of gods, the inventor of the iPod was actually Tony Fadell (along with former Apple hardware chief of engineering Jon Rubinstein). Fadell, who took over the iPod division from Rubinstein in 2006, is leaving Apple.

Jobs is a part of every device's DNA—they made the iPod louder than most MP3 players at the time because he's partly deaf. Fadell was the guy who supposedly came up with the business model and actually put it together. Interestingly, he's being replaced by former IBM exec Mark Papermaster, who's more chip guru than gadget hound, like his predecessor was.

It makes some sense, given Apple's acquisition of P.A. Semi to make chips for iPods and maybe the iPhone. But it also says to me that they're definitely not thinking of iPods as dumb little music players anymore. [WSJ]

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