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Why Bob Mansfield Was Cut From Apple's Executive Team

Posted by samzenpus on from the see-you-later dept.

colinneagle writes "AllThingsD reported that Bob Mansfield, Apple's Senior Vice President of Technologies, has disappeared from the executive management team at Apple. But it was only last October when Mansfield was widely reported to have been convinced to return from retirement by Apple CEO Tim Cook for a two-year stint. His return to the company may have been cut short on account of Apple's continued reliance on Samsung for its mobile SOC processors, for which Apple paid an estimated $10 billion to Samsung last year. Mansfield's group was to have played a major role in this, and apparently it has not been able effect this change."

8 of 100 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Apple just buy out Intel by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

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    Intel's market cap: 115,690,000,000

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  2. Other information by UnknowingFool · · Score: 4, Informative

    Some news sites that Mansfield is working on special projects. That could mean iTV, iWatch, iRealityDistortionField, whatever.

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  3. Pushing my glasses back with my finger . . . by dogsbreath · · Score: 4, Informative

    In the summary, 'affect this change' [grrrrrr] should be 'effect this change'. It could have read 'affect the situation'.

    Oh the humanity: I'm having flashbacks of my grade 8 grammar teacher thrashing us mercilessly for just such an offense. Twas eons ago and most of my grammar synapses have degenerated to dust but the affect/effect thingy persists.

    I whimper.

    8-P

    1. Re:Pushing my glasses back with my finger . . . by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

      Whimper some more, because you are 100% incorrect -- that's right, you've got it exactly backwards. It should be "affect this change." "Effect" is a noun. Your grammar teacher is spinning in his/her grave.

  4. Effect by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    and apparently it has not been able affect this change.

    Effect dammit. There was no change to possibly be affected because there was no change done!

    *grumble* grammarless *grumble* get off my lawn

  5. Re:Apple just buy out Intel by alen · · Score: 4, Informative

    Apple has $146 BILLION in cash as of last quarter. those numbers are old

    $100 billion of it is outside the USA

  6. Re:This is tech news now. by jkflying · · Score: 3, Informative

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  7. Re:Another way to look at it by Udo+Schmitz · · Score: 4, Informative

    Jup, that’s what Gruber says: ‘Everybody Loves Bob’

    http://daringfireball.net/2013/07/mansfield

    Quote: “Inside Apple, they seem surprised that we’d read juicy backstage intrigue into his simply being removed from their executive list.”