New Video Pits iPhone Click Wheel Prototype Against Scott Forstall's Icon-Based iPhone Prototype

[kdarling]

An iPod like interface that many were used to already would seem plausible. Looking back it's easy to see but probably not so much then.

Yep, and I think Jobs (like Ive) tend to like to reuse designs which had already been proven successful.

The iPod was successful, so why not try to keep that style going.

Especially since the primary reason for even doing the iPhone, was to combat other smartphones which were threatening to steal iPod sales in the future. (Same reason the ROKR was done, but with better execution.)

Thus I think in Jobs' mind, at least at first, the iPhone was more an iPod+phone than anything else. I think adding the Web and other apps became important later.

 

[lysingur]

Do you think Scott was fired because of "skeuomorphism"?
And do you think Scott wasn't going to work on a new UI for iOS?
LOL.

You tell me.

It'd be pretty stupid for Cook to fire Forstall for something like that, don't you think? And for the record, I think iOS design was just fine under him.

A new UI for iOS? They did have a new iOS UI after Forstall left. What's your point?

 

[macs4nw]

I'm not disparaging against Forstall. I indicated his disputes and blamings for projects under his name purportedly. No one specifically can identify the exact reasons for his departure, but I do believe Forstall had an ego that affected his relationships with Cook and Company, which put him in a tight corner until his leave.

Notwithstanding Forstall's technical brilliance, when Steve, his like-minded protegé, was gone, Scott had few friends left and thus his future was sealed. As a continuing team member, his presence would have been difficult and a strain on the rest of the team. Apple's loss nevertheless, imho.

 

[44267547]

Notwithstanding Forstall's technical brilliance, when Steve, his like-minded protegé was gone, Scott had few friends left and his future was sealed. As a continuing team member, his presence would have been difficult and a strain on the rest of the team. Apple's loss nevertheless, imho.

I was thinking the other day, I wonder what Forstalls opinion of Apple would be today and how he sees the changes as being productive or lackluster. That would be an interview I love to hear.

 

[macs4nw]

I was thinking the other day, I wonder what Forstalls opinion of Apple would be today and how he sees the changes as being productive or lackluster. That would be an interview I love to hear.

My inclination would be to think he wouldn't be pleased, and I say that because like Steve, Scott during his Apple days was somewhat of a perfectionist, a detail man less concerned with profits than with technical and design superiority.

And despite Apple's currently huge financial successes, Scott is probably dismayed by some of the design decisions of late, the seeming lack of an overall corporate direction/strategy, and lastly but definitely not least, by the increasingly frequent software glitches, as well as hardware component failures that lately seem to be more the rule than the exception.

If his ego would allow him to be more of a team player, he could once again be a great asset to Apple.

 

[RonCouturier]

My windows 10 is more stable than macOS . This is not agile , it's marketing . Agile is also one of most abused terms these days.

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My windows 10 is more stable than macOS . This is not agile , it's marketing . Agile is also one of most abused terms these days.

Sure windows 10 is more stable than macOS!!!! HAHAHAHA

 

[MH01]

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Sure windows 10 is more stable than macOS!!!! HAHAHAHA

Yeah it is.