{"id":974948,"date":"2025-11-19T08:50:27","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T03:20:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=974948"},"modified":"2025-11-19T09:41:28","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T04:11:28","slug":"abidur-chowdhury-celebrated-designer-behind-iphone-air-leaves-apple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/11\/19\/abidur-chowdhury-celebrated-designer-behind-iphone-air-leaves-apple\/","title":{"rendered":"Abidur Chowdhury, celebrated designer behind iPhone Air, leaves Apple"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Abidur Chowdhury, the celebrated designer of iPhone Air fame, has left Apple, unsettling the consumer electronics giant&#8217;s design team, news agency Bloomberg reported on November 18. Chowdhury, an industrial designer, was instrumental in developing the iPhone Air and had even fronted its global introduction. <\/p>\n<p>His exit has been confirmed by people familiar with the matter, Bloomberg&#8217;s report said. It underscores the rapid turnover inside one of the company\u2019s most influential teams at a time when design continuity is already under strain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abidur Chowdhury, the celebrated designer of iPhone Air fame, has left Apple, unsettling the consumer electronics giant&#8217;s design team, news agency Bloomberg reported on November 18. Chowdhury, an industrial designer, was instrumental in developing the iPhone Air and had even fronted its global introduction. His exit has been confirmed by people familiar with the matter, Bloomberg&#8217;s report said. It underscores the rapid turnover inside one of the company\u2019s most influential teams at a time when design continuity is already under strain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-974948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=974948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974948\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=974948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=974948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=974948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}