According to a report by Engadget, the Wall Street Journal revealed that former iPhone chief Mark Papermaster never settled on his job at Apple and had difficulties fitting in with the expectations of being an Apple Senior VP.
That confirms my earlier suspicion that there was something much larger behind his departure than simply as a scapegoat, evidenced by how much of iPhone 4 is actually Bob Mansfield’s work and his absence from the iPhone 4 video as well as the press conference.