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By Dawn Kawamoto
Posted on ZDNet News: Jan 12, 2007 5:35:00 PM

Apple is putting out a call for engineers to join its ranks in an effort to beef up its iPhone.

The hybrid hardware maker is looking to expand its work force, as it seeks to push its iPhone out the door by June. Beyond its hunt for computer geeks and hipster iPod project managers, Apple is listing jobs for a number of software and hardware engineers, as well as quality control testers, for its recently debuted iPhone.

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The company is looking to add 33 positions to its iPhone ranks, ranging from electronic engineers to an engineering project manager for its camera feature to a telephony embedded software engineer to develop more middleware features to add to its library.

However, as Apple looks to bolster its brain base on its iPhone project, it's unclear whether it will allocate resources to features in which consumers appear to be most interested. In a recent informal CNET News.com poll on iPhone features, 23 percent of News.com readers found the multitouch interface feature stood out the most, while 14 percent chose full-fledged Mac OS X.

But while Apple is looking to hire an iPhone engineering project manager for its camera feature, less than half a percent of the 6,187 News.com readers who responded to the poll listed that as an outstanding feature.

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Its called "CONTEMPT PRIOR TO INVESTIGATION" or just plain ignorance. (Read the rest)
Posted by: rbert16000 Posted on: 01/16/07 You are currently: a Guest | | Terms of Use
Apple: Calling all iPhone engineers  Loverock Davidson | 01/12/07
Or maybe . . .  Ken_z | 01/12/07
Apple: calling all trademark lawyers  Boot_Agnostic | 01/12/07
iPhone looks nice, but...  honeybl | 01/12/07
great questions  Mr_Dave | 01/12/07
Not a phone or a tablet  mrmckeb@... | 01/13/07
Mediocre?  rbert16000 | 01/16/07
.5% interested in camera feature misleading?  Okkio | 01/12/07
Features for ver. 2.0 iPhone  Mr_Dave | 01/12/07
I just don't get it ...  alfitz@... | 01/12/07
If you're happy with what you get then save 50%.  Ken_z | 01/12/07
You've never used one so how can you have an opinion?  mlindl | 01/12/07
Allow me to explain:  TWRX | 01/15/07
Of course you dont...  rbert16000 | 01/16/07
iPhone is just another 'me too' device  NonZealot | 01/13/07
See mlindl's comment  Graham Fluet | 01/14/07
You can have an opinon without ownership  Boot_Agnostic | 01/15/07
Yes...  rbert16000 | 01/16/07

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