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Segway CTO joins Apple PDF Print E-mail
Business and Law
By Humphrey Cheung   
Monday, July 07, 2008 14:22

Cupertino (CA) – Segway’s Chief Technology Officer, Doug Field, will be heading over to Apple as the company’s new Vice President of product design.  Field had managed Segway’s entire engineering team since day 1.  Interestingly enough, Field’s new boss, Steve Jobs, wasn’t a big fan of the Segway when it was launched.  In fact, back in 2003 when the Segway was still known as “Ginger”, Jobs famously said, “I think it sucks!”

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