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Title: Apple snags Amazon Fire TV exec to lead Apple TV efforts Post by: HCK on February 11, 2017, 04:05:13 pm Apple snags Amazon Fire TV exec to lead Apple TV efforts
<article> <section class="page"> <p> Apple is shaking up its TV department in a sign that the company is paying more attention to its set-top box (http://www.macworld.com/article/3078064/home-players/how-the-fourth-generation-apple-tv-grew-on-me.html).</p><p> Earlier in February, former Amazon Fire TV manager Timothy Twerdahl joined Apple to oversee product marketing for the Apple TV, Bloomberg reported (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-02-08/apple-hires-amazon-s-fire-tv-head-to-run-apple-tv-business). That role was held by Pete Distad, who will now shift over to the content side to help Eddy Cue make more TV deals. Twerdahl certainly knows his stuff: Before joining Amazon, he worked at Netflix and Roku.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3167541/consumer-electronics/apple-snags-amazon-fire-tv-exec-to-lead-apple-tv-efforts.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article> Source: Apple snags Amazon Fire TV exec to lead Apple TV efforts (http://www.macworld.com/article/3167541/consumer-electronics/apple-snags-amazon-fire-tv-exec-to-lead-apple-tv-efforts.html#tk.rss_all) |