Paul Meade is leaving Apple and joining OpenAI to design hardware.
12:30 PM · Jun 26, 2026 · 17.4K Views
Apple Vision Pro executive Paul Meade leaves after 15 years to join OpenAI's hardware division
He will focus on hardware design at OpenAI.
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Many users called the Apple Vision Pro a failure or useless product after its hardware executive departed for OpenAI, citing poor design and Apple's repeated talent losses as reasons for the negative reaction.
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Andrew Curran@AndrewCurran_
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This is CRAZY news. I worked with Paul at Apple on AR/VR. He’s been there for 15+ years and his team pulled off absolute miracles. Things that have never been done in the history of manufacturing or hardware design. INSANE hire
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Andrew Curran@AndrewCurran_
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-26/apple-s-vision-pro-and-smart-glasses-chief-paul-meade-is-leaving-for-openai
Andrew Curran@AndrewCurran_
Paul Meade is leaving Apple and joining OpenAI to design hardware.
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Autism Capital 🧩@AutismCapital
@markgurman Vision Bros right now
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walden@walden
It’s funny how these guys become supposedly so great only when they leave. Before, you’ve never heard of him.
I’m sure he’s good but it’s ludicrous to think Apple is in any way dependent on him. For all we know Apple may be better off without him.
At OpenAI he’s joining a company with a shaky financial future that’s bleeding money and may not even survive long term.
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Hira@Hiraweb3
@markgurman Vision Pro just lost its North Star.
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Mark Gurman@markgurman
Seems like everything is fine in Vision Pro land 🤷♂️
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Ray Fernando@RayFernando1337
@tforschbach @AndrewCurran_ I haven't officially announced anything...
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Charles G@grubachi
@AndrewCurran_ Vision Pro, a failure, probably not the fault of the design leadership.
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Garrison Moratto@GarrisonMoratto
@markgurman Sad news, but probably inevitable given that Apple botched Vision Air, was late to glasses because of the 2 year Siri saga, and reshuffled the leadership team. Your article on the need for Apple prioritize design again was very timely.
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Liam@LiamFromOrlando
@markgurman How do they just keep losing they have so much money it’s simply a throw money at it problem
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TonyVT SkarredGhost@SkarredGhost
@markgurman So is this confirming that OpenAI is working on glasses?
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Ralph 🕶@RalphJodiceJr
@markgurman 👀
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TONY CRΞΞCH@TheCreech
@markgurman Um wasn’t it Mike Rockwell not Meade who’s the chief if the Vision Pro?
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Osama Moghrabi@osama_moghrabi2
@markgurman Ok, this another normal news from apple ..
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Francesc Mortés@francescmortes
@markgurman That's OK. They can always bump up the procrsya few hundred euros as needed.
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JB Cert@Sensible_Swag
@markgurman 😂 Sign of the times
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Ahmed @hammod26159497
@markgurman Damn it Apple is from lost to lost
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Ahsan Zafar@ahsanch76
@markgurman apple should really work hard on protecting their engineers.... AVP is a feat and they must not let everyone copy it so easily
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Real Sturdy 🧠👁✊🏽@KingSmoove009
@markgurman This is equivalent to Nike losing designers and other high positioned employees to adidas , 10-11 years ago.
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Trilbo Swaggins@Tril1boswagginz
@AndrewCurran_ @SadlyItsBradley
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