Ondrej Holzman Ben Keighran, the key man behind the development of the latest Apple TV, is leaving Apple after four years. Keighran came to Cupertino as part of the acquisition of his startup Chomp, and according to his words, he now wants to try something of his own again.
"I don't just want to create killer product, but my own iconic company,” he said pros Re / code Keighran, who has overseen the software's appearance in the past three years Fourth generation Apple TV. Apple here after years of anticipation presented last September.
Ben Keighran joined Apple in 2012. That's when the Californian company bought his search startup Chomp, which he co-founded with Cathy Edwards. That already Apple she left two years ago and her colleague will now follow her. Keighran wants to try something new again.
He hasn't been very forthcoming about his future or his work at Apple, but he did admit that parts of his Chomp were used in the software for the new Apple TV. He also revealed that while developing the new Apple set-top box, "we explored many ways to deliver an amazing TV experience." He said his decision to leave Apple was not an easy one, as he "absolutely fell in love with the people, the culture and the products" at Apple.
He refused to reveal any possible future plans of Apple. However, he himself appears to have had a key role in the development of tvOS, the operating system that took the Apple TV many steps further than its predecessors. The fourth generation of the Apple set-top box introduced, for example, its own App Store or the Siri voice assistant.
