{"id":290241,"date":"2025-11-18T03:41:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T03:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/290241\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T03:41:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T03:41:08","slug":"the-apple-designer-who-introduced-the-iphone-air-leaves-the-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/290241\/","title":{"rendered":"The Apple Designer Who Introduced the iPhone Air Leaves the Company"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">The Apple Inc. designer who helped develop the iPhone Air \u2014 and even starred in its introduction video \u2014 has left, marking the latest setback for the company\u2019s design group.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Abidur Chowdhury, an industrial designer, recently departed the iPhone maker for an artificial intelligence startup, according to people familiar with the move. His exit made waves internally, given his rising profile within the design team, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the matter is private.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Apple Inc. designer who helped develop the iPhone Air \u2014 and even starred in its introduction video&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":290242,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[131370,7175,276,49,48,7214,356,6811,1575,131369,124,2927,61],"class_list":{"0":"post-290241","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-alan-l-dye","9":"tag-apple-inc","10":"tag-artificial-intelligence","11":"tag-ca","12":"tag-canada","13":"tag-chief-executive-officer","14":"tag-design","15":"tag-engineering","16":"tag-iphone","17":"tag-jeff-williams","18":"tag-jobs","19":"tag-startups","20":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/290242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}