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On “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice” (Features, Oct. 17-23), I’d like to set the record straight on one point:
I inherited the competitive iPhone OS project from Jon Rubenstein and Steve Sakoman when they left Apple. I quickly shuttered the project after assessing that a modified Mac OS was the right platform for the iPhone. It was clear that to create the best smartphone possible, we needed to leverage the decades of technology, tools, and resources invested in Mac OS while avoiding the unnecessary competition of dueling projects.
Tony Fadell
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I did many problem sets with Scott Forstall as an undergrad at Stanford. He, Eric Ly (a co-founder of LinkedIn), and I worked together, often through the night.