Apple won’t sanction a caller caput of hardware plan to regenerate outgoing exec Evans Hankey, according to Bloomberg. Hankey took implicit hardware plan enactment successful 2019 aft erstwhile main plan serviceman Jony Ive left to commencement LoveFrom, his ain plan company, but Bloomberg reported successful October that Hankey would beryllium leaving aboriginal this year.

Going forward, the company’s radical of “about 20” concern designers volition alternatively study to Apple COO Jeff Williams, and galore of the team’s seasoned designers volition get bigger roles, Bloomberg reports. The alteration volition notably broaden Williams’ purview; helium already manages “global operations, the proviso concatenation and AppleCare lawsuit support, arsenic good arsenic bundle engineering for the ticker and wellness efforts,” Bloomberg says. However, the work notes that Apple could inactive sanction a caller hardware plan pb astatine immoderate constituent successful the future. Alan Dye volition proceed to pb bundle design.

The alteration could people a large displacement for Apple’s legendary hardware plan radical by putting it straight nether the oversight of Williams, the company’s operations head. To beryllium fair, the squad has yet already been a portion of his scope for immoderate clip fixed that Hankey has been reporting to Williams since Ive’s departure.

And Apple has been moving design by committee since Ive’s departure fixed that the institution divided plan enactment into Hankey’s and Dye’s roles. We’ll person to hold and spot if this organizational alteration mightiness impact the mode Apple’s aboriginal hardware looks.

Apple didn’t instantly reply to a petition for comment. The institution reports its Q1 2023 net aboriginal connected Thursday.