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Brain drain: Apple's senior hardware chief retires rich

Bob Mansfield is the second key executive to leave since Steve Jobs died

FORTUNE -- One of the concerns after Steve Jobs died was whether Apple's (AAPL) institutional values -- as embodied by his hand-picked executive team -- would survive his passing.

The team lost a key member when Ron Johnson, who built the Apple Stores, departed in November run J.C. Penney. Because Johnson made his decision to leave public nine months MORE

Tim Cook feels the wrath of the Apple power user

Forced to telegraph future product plans, despite a promise to double down on secrecy

FORTUNE -- Apple (AAPL) power users -- professionals who do video editing and other computational heavy lifting with high-end software suites on multiple screens driven by top-of-the-line computer towers -- have been taking it on the chin lately.

Mac OS X Lion killed all the older versions of Adobe's (ADBE) Creative Suite and removed the all-windows Expose function many MORE

Apple's WWDC 2012: The analysts weigh in (updated)

More than a dozen thumbs up. Two thumbs down. Egg on a couple of faces.

FORTUNE -- The Street's reactions to Monday's keynote are flooding in. The verdicts were mostly positive, but Apple (AAPL) analysts whose predictions outpaced reality had a little backtracking to do.

RBC's Amit Daryanani: Increasing Ecosystem Stickiness. "We attended Apple's World Wide Developers Conference in San Francisco and came away impressed with the new MacBook Pro Retina Display laptop, MacBook refresh, additional Siri capabilities, MORE

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Apple's Tim Cook says hello: The full D10 interview [ALLTHINGSD]

While clearly playing it close to the vest, he ranged over a wide number of topics, from secrecy at Apple (it's now apparently been doubled!) to the iPhone to controversies in China to a possibly more social partnership with Facebook to more television efforts to, of course, the legacy of Apple's co-founder Steve Jobs, who died last year.

Microsoft 'mulled Nokia buyout, MORE

Live from Apple's WWDC 2012

What's new: iOS 6 for iPhone and iPad, OS X Mountain Lion, new Macs, maps and more

FORTUNE -- Apple (AAPL) on Monday used the occasion of its World Wide Developer Conference -- the first since Steve Jobs died -- to make numerous incremental improvements in its hardware, software and service offerings.

Its flashiest new device is a thin MacBook Pro with a flash drive and Retina screen that's available for sale today MORE

Steve Jobs: 'Why is the file system the face of the OS?'

Anticipating the post-PC era, Apple's CEO tipped his hand at All Things Digital in 2005

FORTUNE -- If you want to know what Tim Cook meant last week at All Things Digital when he said Apple (AAPL) was going to "double down" on secrecy, you only have to spend some time listening to the six appearances his predecessor made at the same conference between 2003 and 2010, free podcasts of which MORE

What's Apple going to unveil next week in San Francisco?

If anyone has the goods, it's Mark Gurman, 9to5Mac's teen blogging phenom

FORTUNE -- Apple's (AAPL) annual World Wide Developers Conference is scheduled to begin with a Tim Cook keynote June 11, but for Mark Gurman the story began in early May.

In a series of scoops -- the accuracy of which is about to be tested -- 9to5Mac's star 18-year-old blogger (with assists from Seth Weintraub and Jordan Kahn) has been leading MORE

What did Tim Cook really say about Apple's TV project?

There's more than one way to interpret the broad hints he gave at All Things Digital

FORTUNE -- Many commentators listened to Tim Cook's remarks about television at the All Things Digital conference Tuesday and concluded that he let the cat out of the bag.

"Let's be real: There's enough smoke here that there is some sort of fire," wrote SplatF's Dan Frommer, Reading Between the Lines. "Apple is probably going to make a TV,"

"If MORE

Today in Tech: Tim Cook says Apple will "double-down" on product secrecy

Tim Cook remembers Steve Jobs and looks to the future; have Mark Zuckerberg's worst fears become reality?

Apple CEO Tim Cook in the hot seat at D [ALL THINGS D]

Cook said that Jobs told him not to ask what Steve would have done. "He looked at me with those intense eyes that only he had and said, 'Just do what's right.' I'm doing that. Does that mean some things would be different? Of MORE

Apple's Tim Cook highlights from All Things Digital

A lot of drumroll about "incredible" new products in the works, but absolutely no details

FORTUNE -- It turns out that getting Tim Cook to sit in All Things Digital's red "hot seat" is not necessarily the best way to find out what he is up to. You'll learn more about Cook's Apple (AAPL) from Adam Lashinsky's Fortune cover story that you would from Tuesday night's nearly two-hour Q&A with Walt MORE