Michael Abbott, vice president of Apple Cloud Engineering, will leave office in April this year and will be replaced by Jeff Robbin, the father of iTunes.

CTOnews.com, March 4 (Xinhua)-- Michael Abbott, Apple's vice president of cloud engineering, plans to leave in April, according to Mark Mark Gurman of Bloomberg. The position will be taken over by Jeff Robbin, a longtime vice president of engineering at Apple, known in the industry as the father of iTunes.

Michael Abbott source: Michael Abbott TwitterMichael Abbott joined Apple in 2018 and previously worked as an executive at technology companies such as Twitter, Microsoft and Palm. He is currently in charge of Apple's cloud infrastructure for iCloud, iMessage, FaceTime and other services.

The report says Apple has spent heavily on internal cloud infrastructure under his leadership, but in order to cut investment, Apple has switched to servers hosted by Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud.

Peter Stern (Peter Stern), Apple's vice president of services for the entire iCloud, also left the company earlier this year. CTOnews.com learned from the report that Stern, who has worked at Apple for more than six years, was seen as a potential successor to Apple's long-term service director Eddy Cue.