John Browett has departed from Apple as part of the management changes announced this week.
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John Browett is out as head of retail and Apple is once again on the hunt for someone lead this division.
This week Apple announced that Scott Forstall, head of iOS software, and John Browett, the recently appointed head of retail, are both out.
The pay raises, first reported by the Business Insider blog, come two months after Apple's newly appointed retail chief, John Browett, joined the company.
Speculation has been rife about why Apple is showing iOS software chief Scott Forstall and John Browett, head of Retail, the door.
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He was replaced in April 2012 by John Browett, formerly of U.K. retailer Dixons Retail PLC, who himself stepped down a mere six months later.
"Consumer confidence across some of our markets is fragile and we expect it to continue to be so through much of 2011, " said Dixons' chief executive John Browett.
"The reason why we are confident about the profitability going forward is that the non-food volume which we got at Christmas was very good, " said John Browett, Tesco.com.
Johnson was replaced at Apple by John Browett as Sr.
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He also welcomed John Browett, senior vice president in charge of retail, to the company as the replacement for Ron Johnson, who left to become CEO of J .
The most obvious example is Apple, which last month got rid of Scott Forstall, boss of its iOS software division, and John Browett, who very briefly ran the retail operation.
In corporate news, Apple (AAPL) announced two major management changes John Browett, head of retail, and Scott Forstall, mobile software developer, will be leaving the company early next year.
John Browett resigned from Apple Inc.
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John Browett was fired in October.
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Additionally, John Browett is leaving Apple.
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While most Street analysts who follow the stock see little to worry about in the departure of Scott Forstall and retail stores chief John Browett, others are feeling unsettled about signs that the Apple product machinery is showing some un-Apple like signs of instability.
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