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The Apple exec tipped to take over as head of its Retail unit has just quit the company, it was announced yesterday. Jerry McDougal, vice president of Retail at Apple since 2000 has resigned to spend more time with his family. McDougal's exit comes three months after his former boss John Browett, was booted out from his role …

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  1. Electric Panda
    Meh

    "Spend more time with his family"

    That's Corporate Gobbledigook for "jumped before being pushed".

    1. LarsG
      Meh

      Company

      Spring Clean

      1. Destroy All Monsters Silver badge
        Devil

        Re: Company

        Sounds like it's getting a bit Kremlin in Cupertino.

        1. Anonymous Coward
          Thumb Up

          Re: Company

          Apple is innovating again. Fire the marketing and sales execs BEFORE the bad quarterly numbers get reported.

  2. Big_Ted
    Trollface

    Well there's 4 top retail people available now....

    The bosses of Comet, HMV, Jessops and Blockbuster.

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Trevor Moore, cx of HMV, was the former cx of Jessops. David Adams, non-exec director at HMV, was the former chairman at Jessops.

      Two fine candidates if you are looking to rationalise staffing levels, to be sure.

  3. Albert Hall

    "Jim Bean is moving to Retail..."

    To a counter job perchance?

  4. Wang N Staines

    Time to cash in those share options before they are worthless.

    1. Oninoshiko
      Boffin

      Options

      AAPL is actually up a bit over 20 today, at the moment, so assuming you are talking about calls, things are looking good for you right now. You still need to sell them before time decay kills you, but that's always true of options.

      Now if you own puts, you might be worried.

      1. Anonymous Coward
        Anonymous Coward

        Re: Options

        The rumours say some people only want the share price below 550 until something like the 19th of this month so don't expect to go much higher for at least a few days.

  5. Anonymous Coward
    Coat

    Keeel themmm....

    See title, probs only relevant to people who watch "Armstrong & Miller"...

  6. Bob Vistakin
    Happy

    True, Apple has wobbled recently

    But now Mr Bean is in charge all will be well again.

    1. Benchops

      Re: Mr Bean

      But Mr Bean's character always gets killed at the end of the first film/series. Oh wait, perhaps I've got the wrong Bean.

  7. Ascylto
    Big Brother

    Let's face it ... anybody looks good after Browett.

  8. Stretch
    Go

    sinking ship

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Gimp

      On a sea of...one hundred billion dollars

      You may be right, but sinking by 'worth more than Google, Microsoft, Amazon and Facebook put together' standards...

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