Steve Hotelling, the man behind Touch ID and with work on the custom camera sensors and health sensors, is leaving Apple. He is credited with six pages worth of patents over the last two decades.
In a report by Bloomberg, Mark Gurman wrote, ‘Another person who worked with Hotelling said that — outside of Apple’s chip efforts — he was the single greatest driver for innovation in its products.’ His leave will make a noticeable absence at Apple and others will have to fill in those gaps. Bloomberg followed this up by saying ‘His responsibilities are being divided up between multiple of (Johny) Srouji’s direct reports, including Alan Gilchrist, who took over managing the company’s camera and depth sensor teams. Another executive, Wei Chen, is in charge of many display technologies.’
