I recently paid the $2.99/mo to go with the 200GB iCloud plan for my family (mother in law, wife, and myself). His departure comes following a major AWS outage in February that impacted services like Apple Music and iTunes, and CBNC speculates that his exit could mean Apple plans to rely more on its own infrastructure rather than third-party cloud services.īoth Billingsley and Gates report to engineering vice president Patrice Gautier, who reports to iTunes chief Eddy Cue. It's not clear where he will be going after leaving Apple.Īccording to CNBC, data infrastructure has been an issue at Apple and Gates has been "righting the ship." Apple has been shifting more services to Gates' group's infrastructure as Billingsley's relies on external cloud providers like Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure. Before that, he was a technical fellow at eBay. Prior to joining Apple in October of 2013, Billingsley served as a director of engineering at Google.
Gates has been with Apple since 2005 and will shortly take over for Billingsley. His current responsibilities are being handed over to senior engineering director Patrick Gates, who already oversees infrastructure for other services like Siri. Eric Billingsley, director of internet services operations at Apple, is leaving the company, reports CNBC.īillingsley is responsible for running data center infrastructure and some internet services, including the operating infrastructure for iCloud services like iCloud Drive.
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