Apple's new MobileMe boss punished with a promotion

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Apple’s new MobileMe boss punished with a promotion

Eddy Cue, the vice president in charge of Apple's iTunes Store, where outages contributed to the iPhone 3G's messy launch, isn't getting fired. Instead, Apple CEO Steve Jobs is promoting him to head all of Apple's Internet services — iTunes, the App Store, and MobileMe — and will report directly to Steve Jobs. Does this mean that Cue's former boss, Sina Tamaddon, right, is taking the fall for MobileMe's buggy launch? One person definitely getting slapped: Rob Schoeben, the executive responsible for MobileMe during its launch. (Photo of Cue, left, by matteorenzi)

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