http://tags.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/gawker.com.png http://gawker.com/tag/valleywag/sinatamaddon http://gawker.com/tag/valleywag/sinatamaddon Eddy Cue, the vice president in charge of Apple's iTunes Store, where outages contributed to the iPhone 3G's messy launch, isn't getting fired. Instead, Apple CEO Steve Jobs is promoting him to head all of Apple's Internet services — iTunes, the App Store, and MobileMe — and will report directly to Steve Jobs. Does this mean that Cue's former boss, Sina Tamaddon, right, is taking the fall for MobileMe's buggy launch? One person definitely getting slapped: Rob Schoeben, the executive responsible for MobileMe during its launch. (Photo of Cue, left, by matteorenzi)

]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5033416&view=rss&microfeed=true Two weeks after it was supposed to be delivered, Apple has issued an update to its Apple TV set-tops, bringing with it Flickr integration and iTunes movie rentals. On January 15, Apple CEO Steve Jobs promised the update "within 2 weeks." The company later pushed that back "another week or two." Well, better late than never, I guess. What I want to know is who's taking the fall for this one: Tony Fadell, head of the iPod division; Bertrand Serlet, Apple's software-engineering chief; or Sina Tamaddon, who's in charge of application software. Let the fingerpointing begin!

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