Apple’s VP of Cloud Engineering Michael Abbott Reportedly Leaving Company in April

Apple’s vice president of cloud engineering is reportedly leaving the company.

Michael Abbott is set to leave the post in April after five years and his responsibilities are to be taken over by Jeff Robbin, the creator of iTunes, Bloomberg reported Friday (March 3), citing unnamed sources.

Apple did not immediately reply to PYMNTS’ request for comment.

Abbott oversees all of Apple’s cloud-related products, including iCloud, the infrastructure for iMessage and FaceTime, the CloudKit service that can be used to power third-party apps, and Apple’s services’ privacy and security engineering, according to the report.

He is the latest of several executives to leave the company in late 2022 and early 2023, the report said.

The company’s vice president of services, Peter Stern, left the company in January. Stern was the business leader for Apple’s TV+, iCloud, Apple One and News+ and was a key figure in the company’s building of its services business.

In November, it was reported that the company’s vice president of online retail, Anna Matthiasson, was stepping down and its chief information officer, Mary Demby, was retiring.

That news followed shortly after the departures of the company’s vice president in charge of industrial design, Evans Hankey, and its chief privacy officer, Jane Horvath.

In some cases, Apple has struggled to find successors and has instead reshuffled roles and divided the responsibilities of former executives among the current ones who remained, according to the Bloomberg report.

In other recent news from Apple, the company reported during its Feb. 2 earnings call that its revenue in the most recent quarter was down 5% year over year as COVID restrictions and global disruptions slowed shipments of the new line of iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max, among other hardware.

Subscriptions and services were largely unaffected by these issues, but the firm set an all-time revenue record in services.

“We achieved double-digit revenue growth from App Store subscriptions and set all-time revenue records across a number of categories, including cloud and payment services,” Apple CEO Tim Cook said. “All told, Apple now has more than 935 million paid subscriptions.”