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With the new promotions, engineering vice presidents Federighi and Riccio will report directly to Apple CEO Tim Cook and serve on the company's executive management team. Mansfield, who announced his departure June, is expected to stay with Apple to work on "future products," and will also report to Cook.
As senior vice president of Mac Software Engineering, Federighi will be responsible for Mac OS X development as well as Apple's common operating system engineering teams. After working at NeXT and subsequently Apple, Federighi spent time at Ariba, holding a number of positions including vice president of Internet Services and chieft technology officer. He came back to Apple in 2009 as a lead engineer on Mac OS X.
Apple Senior Vice President of Mac Software Engineering Craig Federighi. | Source: Apple
Riccio, as senior vice president of Hardware Engineering, will take on responsibility for the Mac, iPhone, iPad and iPod engineering teams. After joining Apple in 1998 as vice president of Product Design, Riccio has been involved in the iPad product line since the first generation tablet launched in 2010.
Apple Senior Vice President of Hardware Engineering Dan Riccio. | Source: Apple
Little information was given regarding Mansfield's future duties, but the former Senior Vice President of Hardware Design is thought to be taking on a new role at Apple, perhaps as an advisor to Cook or the design team.
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Little information was given regarding Mansfield's future duties, but the former Senior Vice President of Hardware Design is thought to be taking on a new role at Apple, perhaps as an advisor to Cook or the design team. Just curious what AI is basing this on? There's nothing in Apple's press release that indicated what he will be doing. Doesn't it seem a bit odd that someone would announce their retirement and then a month or two later sa they're not retiring after all? I suppose he could have changed his mind but why announce a retirement? Why not say he's moving into a new role working on special projects or something? Seems odd.
Proofreading please. Misspellings, missing words and bad links! Let's not do sloppy journalism just to be first to report!
Could we say this is good news for iMacs or Mac Pro? Or maybe evidence they're working on a TV? Would they need Mansfield to stay on for an ATV set top box?
The Bob Mansfield stuff is weird. To the bottom, it must be gotten of.