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Scott Forstall leaves Apple

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Re: Scott Forstall leaves Apple

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archgrove wrote: post #48

Anyone who A) likes Apple and B) has ever been in a Dixons store in the UK will be overjoyed with the other departure, Browett (head of retail and previous Dixons CEO) who is leaving immediately (compared to Forstall's year long "transition" departure). Dixons is everything that Apple should never be; terrible customer service, clueless minimum wage staff, horrible retail experience, and generally used only by people…

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Re: Scott Forstall leaves Apple

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Post by mukaiji »

archgrove wrote: post #48

Anyone who A) likes Apple and B) has ever been in a Dixons store in the UK will be overjoyed with the other departure, Browett (head of retail and previous Dixons CEO) who is leaving immediately (compared to Forstall's year long "transition" departure). Dixons is everything that Apple should never be; terrible customer service, clueless minimum wage staff, horrible retail experience, and generally used only by people…

Dixon was DRI for those dreadful apple genius ads over the summer. Good move indeed

Re: Scott Forstall leaves Apple

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Post by mratzloff »

ricardobeat wrote: post #68
mratzloff wrote: post #22

He oversaw Siri and Maps, two products which over-promised and under-delivered, and six months ago he cashed out 95% of his Apple stock. I think it was evident he lost the power struggle and it killed his enthusiasm. His heart just wasn't in it anymore.

That's interesting, do you have a source for the stock cash-out?

Sure. Here you go:

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-57425920-37/apple-exec-sco...

Re: Scott Forstall leaves Apple

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Post by kmfrk »

This makes me incredibly excited for Apple. I would rather that Siri and Maps hadn't belly-flopped the way they did, but iOS is getting really long in the tooth, and Apple have made some seriously weird design decisions with the platform.

Re: Scott Forstall leaves Apple

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apike wrote: post #18

> Scott Forstall will be leaving Apple next year > Jony Ive will provide leadership and direction for Human Interface (HI) across the company And thus ended the reign of skeuomorphism at Apple. Or, at least, the reign of hyper-realism and hyper-whimsy in UI design. Jobs or Forstall always seemed to favour it, but could you imagine Jony Ive signing off on a Podcasts app where half the screen is a reel-to-reel tape tha…

Could the simultaneity of the purge of skeuomorphists with the release of Windows Phone 8 (and Windows 8 +1 day) be purely coincidental?

Re: Scott Forstall leaves Apple

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Post by djcapelis »

apike wrote: post #25
mwc wrote: post #20

Interesting to see confirmation of Bob Mansfield's continued role in the company. He'll lead a new group, "Technologies", responsible for wireless and semis.

It's unusual for Apple to hype something like this, but in that note they mention Mansfield's semiconductor team "have ambitious plans for the future". I doubt that simply refers to making the A7 faster and more power-efficient.

Apple's semiconductor plans have always been something that's been interesting to watch develop over the last few years. I was wondering what they were going to throw Mansfield on ever since they appointed his replacement and just designated him as basically someone who was going to work on a special project.

Sounds like a thrust towards driving Apple deeper into the bottom of the hardware stack to me. Apple currently is very good at setting up good solid deep relationships with hardware suppliers and designing lots of stuff to make things work together. But they've been pushing further and further down the stack ever since the PASemi acquisition. I wonder when they're going to start building fabs.

It seems like if you've got >$30B sitting around, devoting a VP to making a new team and are worried about your competitors controlling your supply chains for memories and other core technologies...

I guess we're going to find out. If I'm right, the earliest indicators will probably be hiring the types of people you'd need to spin up serious fabs.

Re: Scott Forstall leaves Apple

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Post by brudgers »

ececconi wrote: post #42
apike wrote: post #18

> Scott Forstall will be leaving Apple next year > Jony Ive will provide leadership and direction for Human Interface (HI) across the company And thus ended the reign of skeuomorphism at Apple. Or, at least, the reign of hyper-realism and hyper-whimsy in UI design. Jobs or Forstall always seemed to favour it, but could you imagine Jony Ive signing off on a Podcasts app where half the screen is a reel-to-reel tape tha…

I can't wait to see how much cleaner future versions of iOS will be.

If they aren't staying skeuomorphic, then Metro might give you a preview.
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