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Former iOS Chief Scott Forstall is Now a Broadway Producer
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Come on, people! It was either this, or start a venture capital firm. Which do you think is more fun, going out for drinks after a Keynote, or an opening night party at Sardi's?
Still... I keep having visions of Scott writing checks to Max Bialystock.
Poll Questions:
1) Zero Mostel or Nathan Lane
2) Gene Wilder or Matthew Broderick
Well, it's too late now. Break a leg, Scott!
Still... I keep having visions of Scott writing checks to Max Bialystock.
Poll Questions:
1) Zero Mostel or Nathan Lane
2) Gene Wilder or Matthew Broderick
Well, it's too late now. Break a leg, Scott!
Well, at least this is about a former Apple person and not just another celebrity with a free watch. Still not front page stuff though.
A former iOS Chief that's now a Broadway Producer is equivalent to a former Broadway Producer that is now a Home Depot Manager.
Both positions are below the other and a joke, really.
If you're not trolling and are instead actually being serious then I don't even know what to say.
Also, this may be mindblowing but sometimes in life people move on to new ventures, new careers, new scenes, etc. Not everyone wants to live in the Silicon Valley bubble for their entire lives. Again, mindblowing, right?!
Agreed. That's pretty prestigious if you ask me. If I was more of an arts person, this would be somewhat of an honor/career goal.
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He made a leather bound contacts app. Yuck!
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Yes, I am serious. I think Scott was good at skeumorphism and I know he loved his job and the influence he had in everyones user experience with his OS designs.. I believe, if he could, he'd rather be doing software UI/UX in a big way like he did at apple but he can't get out of a narrow design mind, can't work well with a team and the world doesn't want skeumorphism anymore... So I'm sorry if I don't find broadway musicals as "making a dent in the universe" (as jobs used to say) but I think we can all agree, even if he loves the musical and play biz it's a step down in more ways than not.
I honestly don't understand why some people here are hating on Scott Forstall. While I will agree that posting this type of news is way beyond the model of what people come to expect from MacRumors, I'm not sure it deserved negative feedback about Scott.
Whatever he was behind the scenes (which is NONE of anyone's business here) was between him and Apple. When Scott would come on the stage at the keynotes and demo the products he always appeared very laid back, super friendly and appeared to enjoy his job at Apple. He was my favorite keynote demonstrator.
Whatever he was behind the scenes (which is NONE of anyone's business here) was between him and Apple. When Scott would come on the stage at the keynotes and demo the products he always appeared very laid back, super friendly and appeared to enjoy his job at Apple. He was my favorite keynote demonstrator.
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I wonder what phone he uses. He is basically the founder of iOS so it would seem odd to use the competition, but he was kicked off the project he founded, much like Steve Jobs.
On some level this feels to me as if he is still attached to his former position at Apple. And I don't want to say that this is actually the case, it just what this photo evokes for me. Which on the one hand would be great, that he can think back to that without having bitter feelings but could on the other hand mean that he might still not be over it.
But maybe it is just me, that while I think firing Scott was overall a good decision for Apple, it must really suck for him, having been forced out of would looked like something he really was invested in. In particular given that other former Apple executives like Rubinstein or Tony Fadell managed to run companies related to their former work.
Good for him!
Maybe if he had stayed at Apple they wouldn't be known for all these buggy software releases.
Maybe if he had stayed at Apple they wouldn't be known for all these buggy software releases.
Same with the facebook app, and a handful of other apps. It irritates me when I turn WiFi off on purpose because the carrier WiFi that my phone will just grab onto when I am close is 10x slower than my cellular data. Then I go to check facebook, and immediately get that annoying message. despite just having turned WiFi off myself just seconds previously.
