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Craig Federighi Succeeding Bertrand Serlet as Apple's Chief of Mac Software

impulse462 said:
+1

It seems like Serlet is more of an independent worker who *thinks different* where as Craig is a hardworker but would just "follow." Not making a cheap shot, they're both really good at what they do, just an (maybe wrong) assumption of mine.

In any case, sad to see Serlet go.
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Definitely a WRONG ASSUMPTION OF YOURS. Did you even READ the article? It said:

Serlet will be replaced by Craig Federighi, currently Apple's vice president of Mac Software Engineering and who has led Mac OS X engineering for the past two years. Federighi is another former NeXT and Apple employee who spent ten years at Ariba before returning to Apple in 2009. Serlet notes that the transition should be seamless given Federighi's role in leading the current Mac OS X team.

The Dude is LEADING THE TEAM... FOR TWO YEARS! And you're saying he's the kind that just follows. Lame, dude. And btw, they all FOLLOW over at Apple. They follow Steve Jobs. He's the only one who is doing his own thing.

Here's what I wonder,... if Federighi has been leading the OS X team, what has Serlet been doing? Maybe his role was no longer needed and "decided to move on to explore other opportunities" ---- this might be a "saving face" move.
 
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I went on the internet, and I found this... he must be calibrating!
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saxofunk said:
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Nooooooooo! Bertrand was my favorite SVP, no corporate BS spewing from his mouth, just good old honesty and genuine pride about how great things were and how bad everyone else was :) I will forever miss his accent at the keynotes. I'm guessing they asked him to talk in a keynote about the 'magic' of Lion, so he left in pursuit of science!
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aiqw9182 said:
Yes, I believe he has a glass eye.
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A glass eye with a rose color lens... :rolleyes:

Amen to his comical French accent MS Roast's at Apple OS Keynotes... I'll miss too. All the best to your future, Bertrand.
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rmwebs said:
Its never a good thing when the guy behind the reason we buy Mac's leaves. :(
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Maybe. Maybe it won't matter at all. People who "manage" are not the people who actually "do". Unlike the common beliefs, those products are team efforts and not the brain children of a single person.

If OS X stops being good, we can still use Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris or even Windows. Ubuntu Linux might not be as "awesome, magical, beautiful" as Mac OS X, but it has become an amazingly great - and FREE! - operating system, so I'm not in the least concerned about the future of OS X and Apple. My life doesn't depend on the products of that company in Cupertino.
 
Bertrand Serlet to boldly go where no man has gone B4?

Doesn´t Bertrand Serlet look a lot like Data?

:cool:
 
A coworker tells me Bertrand wrote Interface Builder as part of his thesis before being hired at NeXT - imagine where Mac and iOS development would be today without him!
 
rmwebs said:
Its never a good thing when the guy behind the reason we buy Mac's leaves. :(

For the user who mentioned that he was behind OS X flaws (you mentioned iTunes bloat) - you are wrong. iTunes isn't run directly by the Mac OS development team, it has its own department. There's probably a little crossover however generally he wouldn't have much input on iTunes.
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since almost no one buys a Mac and almost everyone buys an idevice, no one cares about him leaving.

the world has moved past computers being the center of personal computing
 
I can't blame the guy ... academic science totally kicks a$$.

We even get free beer while we sit in the sun during the workday :D
 
Bertrand Serlet - Source Code

Code: 
NSAppleEmployee *bertrandSerlet = [[NSAppleEmployee alloc] init];
 
[bertrandSerlet employeeWithProgramming:YES putUpWithSteveJobs:YES animation:NO];
 
NSOperatingSystem *OSX = [[NSOperatingSystem alloc] init];
 
OSX = [bertrandSerlet copyAndExpand:nextStep To:OSX];
 
NSAppleEmployee *craigFederighi = [NSAppleEmployee alloc] init];
 
[craigFeberighi employeeWithLearnFrom:bertrandSerlet];
 
[bertrandSerlet release];
 
Does anyone here remember all the doom and gloom when Avie Tevanian left in 2006? People were saying it was the end of Mac OS X.

Serlet did a nice job moving the platform forward. Here's wishing Mr. Federighi the best.
 
Seems to be another side of the story

First Jobs on an official vacation, jony seems to be rumored to be leaving for London, and now Serlet's gone. Man! must be something is wrong here...success getting into Apple's nerves? :confused:
 
Will it compile under xcode? :D

PatrickCocoa said:
Code: 
NSAppleEmployee *bertrandSerlet = [[NSAppleEmployee alloc] init];
 
[bertrandSerlet employeeWithProgramming:YES putUpWithSteveJobs:YES animation:NO];
 
NSOperatingSystem *OSX = [[NSOperatingSystem alloc] init];
 
OSX = [bertrandSerlet copyAndExpand:nextStep To:OSX];
 
NSAppleEmployee *craigFederighi = [NSAppleEmployee alloc] init];
 
[craigFeberighi employeeWithLearnFrom:bertrandSerlet];
 
[bertrandSerlet release];
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Wasn't it Jean-Marie Hullot who created Xcode and Interface Builder?

hayesk said:
A coworker tells me Bertrand wrote Interface Builder as part of his thesis before being hired at NeXT - imagine where Mac and iOS development would be today without him!
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PatrickCocoa said:
Code: 
NSAppleEmployee *bertrandSerlet = [[NSAppleEmployee alloc] init];
 
[bertrandSerlet employeeWithProgramming:YES putUpWithSteveJobs:YES animation:NO];
 
NSOperatingSystem *OSX = [[NSOperatingSystem alloc] init];
 
OSX = [bertrandSerlet copyAndExpand:nextStep To:OSX];
 
NSAppleEmployee *craigFederighi = [NSAppleEmployee alloc] init];
 
[craigFeberighi employeeWithLearnFrom:bertrandSerlet];
 
[bertrandSerlet release];
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+100. Very funny:)

PS: Why do people get their panties in a bunch when I say that certain articles are boring*?


*Personal Opinion, not a universal truth im husslin'
 
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