Former Apple PR exec leaves Palm after HP deal
updated 12:15 pm EDT, Sat June 26, 2010
Lynn Fox latest former Apple worker to leave Palm
Palm's PR lead Lynn Fox said on Friday that she has decided to leave Palm following the buyout by HP. The spokeswoman, who worked at Apple until she was hired by Palm in 2008, unveiled the news by quietly changing her Facebook profile to reflect that she will stop working at Palm by July. She explained the move by saying she "respectfully declined" to become an HP employee as a result of the takeover.
Fox is currently offering herself as a consultant but adds she had some "exciting potential opportunities" in store.
Her defection is the latest of former Apple employees to quit Palm following the merger, which will create a new, unified mobile group at Palm headed by former Apple VP and Palm CEO Jon Rubinstein. The highest-profile defection so far has been UI designer Rich Dellinger, who ended up rejoining Apple for what will likely be iOS design. Palm has faced a talent drain as a whole since the HP decision as senior team members have either seen it as a prime chance to exit or have been concerned about HP's effect on Palm culture. Not all of the switches have been uniform, as another UI lead, Matias Duarte, jumped to Google for Android work.
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OMG are you following my job too?
Actually that would be hilarious...let me write the title "frequent commenter and supercilious ranter jonathan-tanya fired, blames Steve Jobs"
"If Steve Jobs had only released the low cost tower, I wouldn't have written 887 comments at macnn.com spending over 80 hours of my employers time advocating for the product. Clearly, Steve Jobs is directly responsible."
ahahahahahhaha ahem, it wasn't 80 hours, 20 hours max.