Apple's Mansfield no longer in exec team, moves to special projects

(Reuters) - Apple Inc said on Sunday it will shift Bob Mansfield, senior vice president of technologies, out of its executive team to work on special projects. Mansfield, who has led the development of a number of Apple devices including the popular MacBook Air laptop, had at one stage announced his plan to retire last year as head of hardware engineering but stayed on to lead Apple's semiconductor and wireless teams. Mansfield is the latest addition to Chief Executive Tim Cook's "special projects" team. ...

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