How the mighty have fallen...
Have you ever produced a Broadway show?
Yeah, I thought so.
How the mighty have fallen...
It's evident that his rift with the post-Jobs Apple exec team left him with a very bitter taste in his mouth. So much so that rather than join another tech behemoth, he decided to leave Silicon Valley altogether to pursue his artistic interests.
Scott was an artist in a sense, after all. There was a visual poetry, a familiarity, and an elegance that you just don't see in iOS 7 and beyond. I was a huge fan of the skeuomorphic design.
Sure, it was kitschy and cheesy, but it made you feel like you were not using a cold, lifeless, electronic device. It made you relate to the objects, signs, and textures of the real world, which made the iOS experience humanizing.
Jony Ive fetishizes ever-flatter design and ever-thinner hardware. He thinks simplicity = less stuff. But he is wrong. Simplicity = harmony/relateability with the real world. Jobs and Forstall understood that.
The Ive production only has an empty white stage with neon spotlights facing the audience.
But Maps was a disaster, the service part anyway.
I think that MR are trolling - trying to evoke a reaction just to bump up hit counts. Such pathetic "journalism", they know full well what a tiresomely childish bunch some MR members can be, and MR know exactly what manner of brain dead comments this article will provoke.
Slow day in the newsroom, huh?
Good on you, Scott. I'm serious, and MR needs to grow the #### up.
Have you ever produced a Broadway show?
Yeah, I thought so.
Steve loved him but a lot of other people didn't. Even other ex-Apple employees including Jon Rubinstein and Tony Fadell didn't have a lot of nice things to say about Scott.Of course is newsworthy, we're talking about the father of the iPhone here. Also, everyone knows Steve loved Scott and agreed with him everytime. Tim Cook and friends took Steve's death as an opportunity to fire him.
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As far as his design aesthetics are concerned, I will admit that I still kind of like OS X's early aqua-themed design, but a lot of the icons and artwork, especially on iOS had to go. I still use a 4th generation iPod Touch that can't upgrade to anything beyond iOS 6 and those designs are horribly dated. To me it's like the equivalent of of looking at 90's CG in movies and video games. It looked great at the time but hasn't aged well at all. It just looks cheesy. I'm not saying what Ive did was pure gold but maybe if there was somehow a balance between the two styles?
Still, I'm happy that he's found something that he's passionate about and that he's working again.
I think that MR are trolling - trying to evoke a reaction just to bump up hit counts. Such pathetic "journalism", they know full well what a tiresomely childish bunch some MR members can be, and MR know exactly what manner of brain dead comments this article will provoke.
Slow day in the newsroom, huh?
Good on you, Scott. I'm serious, and MR needs to grow the #### up.
A rather important/prominent Apple figure is doing something that is in the news, seems appropriate for a site that is about Apple and various rumors and information surrounding the company and people/organizations/companies involved with the company, directly or indirectly, past or present (or future).
Regardless of how overbearing he may or may not have been, I miss the product of his labors in iOS.
iOS 7 & 8 look atrocious.
The dude is young, presumably healthy, has a wife and kids, all the money they could ever need, and he's producing something he's passionate about. We should all be so lucky. Good for him.
Everything is always a disaster with Apple, you people do realize that with Google/Microsoft there is never a smooth launch of a new product.
As a long time Android/ Windows 8 user I can attest to that.
First he works with SnapChat, then he does a broadway musical?? What´s next?
I think that MR are trolling - trying to evoke a reaction just to bump up hit counts. Such pathetic "journalism", they know full well what a tiresomely childish bunch some MR members can be, and MR know exactly what manner of brain dead comments this article will provoke.
Slow day in the newsroom, huh?
Good on you, Scott. I'm serious, and MR needs to grow the #### up.
Now you're talking about something that's the equivalent of a desktop background. Desktop backgrounds are completely separate from the actual user interface. Icons are something that should defy trends. I think Skeumorphic design works best when you're using it for a one time thing such as a logo for a movie or video game or something relates directly to a specific product. I don't think it works well when it's used for something such as a desktop icon that's supposed to used universally.Has he gone crazy?
What about the butterfly watch face? Isn't that kinda skeumorphic? Why not a vector-based butterfly flapping its wings instead?
I really miss Scott's skeuomorphic design elements.
Apple IOS design is now sterile, glaring blind you at night bright white and red. Who ever thought that the current UI design was an improvement? It's horrible.
And the way he was pushed out of Apple shows that the slogan "think different" only applies to those in political favor.
I'm happy to see that the scapegoat is doing well in some other endeavor.
Yay Scott Forstall !!!