



Apple has announced Jonathan Rubinstein has resigned as senior vice president of the company's iPod music player division and has been retained as an Apple consultant, reports [url=http://yahoo.reuters.com/stocks/QuoteCompanyNewsArticle.aspx?storyID=urn:newsml:reuters.com:20060421:MTFH00027_2006-04-21_20-56-51_WEN5194&symbol=AAPL.O&rpc=44]Reuters[/url]. The April 14 resignation was announced in a regulatory filing.
Under the terms of the agreement,. Rubinstein has agreed to make himself available to perform consulting services for Apple for up to 20 percent of general weekly business hours, or one business day per week on average, until April 16, 2007. As consideration for his services, Apple will pay Rubinstein "a non-material flat fee."
Rubinstein, who oversaw the Mac hardware engineering division before taking over as head of the iPod division, resigned from Apple in March.



