I believe he was committed to staying "at least" through 2014. I'm not sure of the details of it all, of course. I just thought it could be a possibility--it would be odd for him to leave less than a year after being convinced to stick around for a bit (in my opinion; I don't know the guy.)
"During the Cold War, lack of reliable information about the country forced Western analysts to "read between the lines" and to use the tiniest tidbits, such as the removal of portraits, the rearranging of chairs, positions at the reviewing stand for parades in Red Square...."
When I clicked on "Senior VP Bob Mansfield removed from Apple's leadership page", I was sort of expecting some kind of speculation on why Bob Mansfield was removed, what it might mean for Apple, maybe even a clue as to who exactly Bob Mansfield is and what he does at Apple. Instead I got a link to the leadership page. See, he's not there!
"Senior VP Bill the Cat removed from Apple's leadership page" would've carried just as much information.
True that, I was just a bit puzzled when I found out. Tried looking around for more details regarding any speculation but no updates from any major sources.
According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Mansfield, he was retiring as of 13 months ago but stayed on for some reason, possibly because of Scott Forstall's departure. Given the circumstances, his may have been an interim role while Apple searched for a long-term solution.
> According to Reuters reporter Poornima Gupta, "Bob Mansfield is no longer on Apple's exec team but will remain at Apple working on special projects reporting to Cook."
> ...
> Last year, Apple announced that Mansfield would be retiring, but several months later announced he would instead be staying at the company. Later, it leaked that Tim Cook had faced an "insurrection" after Mansfield announced his retirement, and Cook gave him an extremely generous benefits package.
So he's moved on to whatever special arrangement has been made for him?
Yeah, my first thought was "wow look at all these old white guys". If the pictures weren't right next to each other I'd probably have trouble telling any two of them apart.
That's great, I'm happy for you. However, implying that people of the same race look alike as to be indistinguishable from one another is offensive to a lot of people.
Bob Mansfield
Senior Vice President, Mac Hardware Engineering
Bob Mansfield is Apple's senior vice president of Technologies, reporting to CEO Tim Cook.
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[ 2.6 ms ] story [ 71.9 ms ] thread"During the Cold War, lack of reliable information about the country forced Western analysts to "read between the lines" and to use the tiniest tidbits, such as the removal of portraits, the rearranging of chairs, positions at the reviewing stand for parades in Red Square...."
"Senior VP Bill the Cat removed from Apple's leadership page" would've carried just as much information.
http://web.archive.org/web/20130723144507/http://www.apple.c...
According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Mansfield, he was retiring as of 13 months ago but stayed on for some reason, possibly because of Scott Forstall's departure. Given the circumstances, his may have been an interim role while Apple searched for a long-term solution.
http://web.archive.org/web/20130723083752/http://www.apple.c...
And here's his page now returning a 404...
http://www.apple.com/pr/bios/bob-mansfield.html
(And, most importantly, I wanted to say how much I miss Bloom County.)
> According to Reuters reporter Poornima Gupta, "Bob Mansfield is no longer on Apple's exec team but will remain at Apple working on special projects reporting to Cook."
> ...
> Last year, Apple announced that Mansfield would be retiring, but several months later announced he would instead be staying at the company. Later, it leaked that Tim Cook had faced an "insurrection" after Mansfield announced his retirement, and Cook gave him an extremely generous benefits package.
So he's moved on to whatever special arrangement has been made for him?
http://www.macrumors.com/2013/07/28/apple-senior-vice-presid...
I'm an "old white guy". I wasn't offended.
http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2012/06/28Bob-Mansfield-Appl...
He's moving into "special projects", reporting to Cook.