Apple veteran Deirdre O’Brien to replace Angela Ahrendts as retail chief

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Apple has named Deirdre O’Brien senior vice president of Retail + People. She replaces Angela Ahrendts who led the company’s retail department for five years, and is leaving Apple in April. 

O’Brien worked at Apple for 30 years, most recently as head of Apple’s People department, which has now been merged with Retail. 

“For more than three decades, she has helped keep Apple focused on serving customers and enriching lives. She’s an exceptional leader and she’s been a vital partner to our retail teams around the world since the very beginning,” Tim Cook said of O’Brien in a statement.  Read more…

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Apple veteran Deirdre O’Brien to replace Angela Ahrendts as retail chief

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Apple has named Deirdre O’Brien senior vice president of Retail + People. She replaces Angela Ahrendts who led the company’s retail department for five years, and is leaving Apple in April. 

O’Brien worked at Apple for 30 years, most recently as head of Apple’s People department, which has now been merged with Retail. 

“For more than three decades, she has helped keep Apple focused on serving customers and enriching lives. She’s an exceptional leader and she’s been a vital partner to our retail teams around the world since the very beginning,” Tim Cook said of O’Brien in a statement.  Read more…

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For Apple, this year’s Global Accessibility Awareness Day is all about education

Following Apple’s education event in Chicago in March, I wrote about what the company’s announcements might mean for accessibility. After sitting in the audience covering the event, the big takeaway I had was Apple could “make serious inroads in furthering *special* education as well.” As I wrote, despite how well-designed the Classroom and Schoolwork apps seemingly are, Apple should do more to tailor their new tools to better serve students and educators in special education settings. After all, accessibility and special education are inextricably tied. It turns out, Apple has, unsurprisingly, considered this.

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