Today's New York Times has a story about how Palm has hired Paul Mercer, who was instrumental in developing the iPod, to help Palm compete with the iPhone. ("Palm Responds to the iPhone", p. C7)
This article interested me, so I looked up another article on the Web--- here is a small quote.
"'He is an unusually detail-oriented software engineer," said Steve Capps, a former Apple and Microsoft software engineer, who was one of the designers of the original Macintosh interface and the leader of the Newton project, which created a hand-held computer. "He knows how to architect small pieces of software code.'
"Alliances between small firms and big electronics makers are becoming increasingly common as companies are forced to bring new devices to market practically every season.
"'We're seeing the rise of independent specialists who have a deep understanding of things that big companies don't have the ability to do,' said Paul Saffo, a Silicon Valley consultant who is chairman of Samsung's science board, an advisory group."
"He Helped Build the iPod, Now He Has Built a Rival;" the New York Times, February 27, 2006; http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/27/technology/27mercer.html?ex=1298696400&en=7ea45081168b7a7f&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss
Here is another reference of some interest I found on Paul Mercer.
"Little-known startup was behind iPod's easy-to-use interface,
Firm's founder now working on the latest handhelds"; San Francisco Chronicle, August 16, 2004; http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/08/16/BUGTG878AR1.DTL
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