Bob Mansfield Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Apple's execs are not the best-paid

by Kelly Hodgkins (Apr 17th, 2013)

A report earlier this week from Businessweek claimed Apple has four of the five highest-paid employees among Standard & Poor's 500 companies. The figures cited in this report included both base salary and vested stock packages, which has some people, like Philip Elmer-DeWitt of Apple 2.0, ...

Apple employs four of America's top five paid executives

by Yoni Heisler (Apr 15th, 2013)

During a 1998 profile in Fortune, Steve Jobs stressed how true innovation requires hiring the right people. Innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R&D. It's not about money. It's ...

Reality Absorption Field: Apple's wireless way

by Ross Rubin (Dec 14th, 2012)

While it was announced amidst the October departure of Scott Forstall, the news that Bob Mansfield would un-retire to oversee all of the company's semiconductor and wireless work didn't get as much attention. Obviously, we are moving toward an increasingly wireless future. The technologies ...

Eddy Cue sells $8.76M in AAPL stock

by Kelly Hodgkins (Dec 5th, 2012)

Bob Mansfield recently sold 35,000 shares of Apple stock and now it is Eddy Cue's turn to cash in some of his holdings. According to a filling with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, Cue sold off 15,000 shares of Apple stock for approximately US$584 per share. He walked away with $8.76 ...

Daily Update for November 30, 2012

by Steven Sande (Nov 30th, 2012)

It's the TUAW Daily Update, your source for Apple news in a convenient audio format. You'll get all the top Apple stories of the day in three to five minutes for a quick review of what's happening in the Apple world. You can listen to today's Apple stories by clicking the inline player ...

Bob Mansfield sells over $20 Million in AAPL stock

by Kelly Hodgkins (Nov 30th, 2012)

Apple Senior Vice President of Technologies Bob Mansfield sold 35,000 shares of Apple stock at a price of $582, netting him a cool $20 million. This financial transaction was detailed in a SEC filing spotted by MacRumors. Earlier this year, Mansfield sold another chunk of Apple stock for ...

Mansfield may lead Apple away from Intel chips in Macs

by Randy Nelson (Nov 5th, 2012)

Bloomberg is reporting that Apple's Technologies group, headed by senior vice president Bob Mansfield, is exploring advanced versions of the chipsets used in the iPhone and iPad lines for use in the company's future desktops and MacBooks. The outlet cites three people familiar with Apple's ...

Daily Update for November 1, 2012

by Steven Sande (Nov 1st, 2012)

Apple's Bob Mansfield: influenced to stay by Scott Forstall's departure?

by Steven Sande (Nov 1st, 2012)

In the latest episode of the soap opera known as "Apple: As The Revolving Door Turns", we saw Senior Vice President of Technologies Bob Mansfield being persuaded somehow to stay on with the company for at least another two years while former iOS software VP Scott Forstall was quietly ushered out ...

Daily Update for August 31, 2012

by Steven Sande (Aug 31st, 2012)

Bob Mansfield once again listed as SVP on Apple's site (Updated)

by Steven Sande (Aug 31st, 2012)

The friendly and familiar face of Apple's Bob Mansfield remained in Apple's gallery of executive portraits in the Apple web site's PR pages, sans title, despite his retirement from the company. Now he's officially de-retired and back in the executive suite. Mansfield was the senior vice ...

Daily Update for August 28, 2012

by Steven Sande (Aug 28th, 2012)

Craig Federighi, Dan Riccio promoted to Senior Vice Presidents at Apple

by Kelly Hodgkins (Aug 28th, 2012)

On Monday, Apple announced that it was promoting vice president of Mac Software engineering Craig Federighi and vice president of Hardware Engineering Dan Riccio to senior vice president positions. The two men will report directly to Tim Cook. Federighi, shown on the left in the above image, ...

Apple's Senior VP of Hardware Engineering, Bob Mansfield, is retiring

by Michael Grothaus (Jun 28th, 2012)

Apple has just issued a press release stating that Bob Mansfield, the company's Senior Vice President of Hardware Engineering, is retiring. Readers will probably recognize Mansfield from the videos Apple releases for new products, such as the new iPad and the MacBook Pro with Retina ...

A look at Apple's "all-star" executives

by Dana Franklin (May 9th, 2011)

Tim Cook, Phil Schiller, Jony Ive, and Steve Jobs are big names at Apple. These top executives are known around the technology industry and around the world for their operational excellence, marketing know-how, design genius and powerful reality distortion fields. While these four men often get ...