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Among the people affected (http://www.engadget.com/2012/10/29/apple-executive-shakeup-scott-forstall-and-john-browett-out/) by Apple's iOS 6 Maps debacle (http://www.engadget.com/2012/09/28/tim-cook-apologizes-for-maps-mess/) was claimed project head Richard Williamson (http://www.engadget.com/2012/11/27/apple-richard-williamson-fired-maps-ios-6/), who was reportedly shown the door at the end of 2012. While the details were never directly corroborated outside of Williamson's exit in December, he may have found a new home at Facebook: Bloomberg's sources say that the director joined the social network's mobile software division within the past two weeks. We don't know what (if anything) Williamson might be producing when Facebook has so far declined comment, although there's no question that he has an appropriate pedigree when he managed interface development for key iOS apps and helped get Safari off the ground (http://www.engadget.com/2013/01/07/apple-safari-marks-its-10th-birthday-as-part-of-a-much-wider-web/). Suffice it to say that the internet giant has plenty (http://www.engadget.com/2013/04/09/htc-first-with-facebook-home-review/) of projects (http://www.engadget.com/2013/04/16/facebook-updating-iphone-app-to-add-chat-head-support-today/) that might benefit from his overall experience.
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Via: AppleInsider (http://appleinsider.com/articles/13/04/16/facebook-reportedly-hires-ex-apple-maps-chief-to-mobile-software-team)
Source: Bloomberg (http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-04-16/facebook-said-to-hire-apple-maps-executive-amid-mobile-push.html)
Via: Engadget