John Paczkowski:
“Bob is no longer going to be on Apple’s executive team, but will remain at Apple working on special projects reporting to Tim,” company spokesman Steve Dowling told AllThingsD. He declined any further explanation, refusing to comment on the reasons behind Mansfield’s abrupt demotion or whether Apple plans to appoint a new SVP of technologies.
Mansfield, of course, came out of retirement to go back to Apple, and last fall to head up the then-new Technologies group after Forstall was canned by Tim Cook.