I imagine his compensation is a blank check.
Imagine some snowflakes at Apple have issues working under his organizational hierarchy!
Here is PROOF yet again that sometimes being stern gets things done!
There were too many snowflakes and disgruntled people at Apple hating against Forstall.
Accolades of Forstall:
1. Massively won internal pitting of iPod to a phone bs him bringing OS X kernel to iPhone! This alone is a mic drop!
2. Working with Microsoft when they finally matured ActiveSync (for those who know how junk that was in the early days know this was the camel that broke blackberries back)! Remember at the time of iPhone 3 sales were still below blackberries but coming up fast!! A huge throw down here because:
A) many corporations already switched to on premises Exchange servers with activeSync
B) BES servers were still too costly and stuck you into their ecosystem which was extremely short sighted.
3. App Store - huge benefit to customers, developers $kaching! And Apple as well. Another mic drop!
4. Time Machine!!
Huge mic drop and many long time forum members also chimes in how huge this was!
5. Really this should be #2 but the quality of app icons being focused on surely annoyed new developers BUT they acquiesced and brought their A game that honestly made the iPhone a truly beautiful experience time and time again. It took Android almost 12yrs to catch up in this regard regardless of launches and skins it still lacked unless you had a specific launcher for a specific Android phone model.
BUT because of Maps having sat issues that Apple did NOT create themselves at the time, internally snowflakes had internal emotional issues working for a strong lead and with Cook having issues with the close friendship Jobs and Forstall had tried to force him to make a public apology he was NOT at fault for. Proof: Apple collects their own maps data for a few years now and had to evoke the UI therafter NOT before collecting their own data to correct issues like turning on a bridge.
The difference here is Cook desperately NEEDs Mr Srouji our digital sugar Daddy!