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Scott Forstall Profiled as Apple's 'CEO-in-Waiting'

bpaluzzi said:
It's not stupid at all. Why would you waste time doing a screen shot and sending it to Photoshop when you can just enlarge it with a magnifying glass or loupe? It works very well.
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I'm sorry but to me, it is kind of dumb... It's not like those icons were hand-painted first, there is no needs for "screen shots". I mean, you're working on a digital platform (so no needs to do any screen shots or print out), when you can just check at the real (original) thing in any size you want. :confused:
 
I feel that there is only one top level chief at Apple that has the ability to captivate an audience in a similar fashion to the late Mr Jobs. However, i am not sure that Apple would ever appoint a non-American as CEO.

I would have paid handsomely to be at a Keynote given by Steve, the only other person i would pay to hear talk is Sir Jonathan Ive.

He could discuss aluminium all day long and still keep people on the edge of their chair.
 
Forstall has alway reminded me of Reese Witherspoon's Tracy Flick from Election. This article demonstrates that he still has his publicity machine in high gear.
 
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An engineer! That is great in a company like Apple. He is more likely to focus on the products, than the market. Come good products, revenue will follow.
 
bbeagle said:
Yes. I would fully expect EVERY company to have succession plans for any key members.

What do you expect should happen if Tim Cook's plane crashes? Should Apple run around like a chicken with their head cut off? There should be someone who can step right in and understand what Tim Cook was doing.

So many short-sighted people here who want to bash Apple for anything.
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What would happen if Scott and Tim were on the same plane?
 
fixmymac said:
I feel that there is only one top level chief at Apple that has the ability to captivate an audience in a similar fashion to the late Mr Jobs. However, i am not sure that Apple would ever appoint a non-American as CEO.

I would have paid handsomely to be at a Keynote given by Steve, the only other person i would pay to hear talk is Sir Jonathan Ive.

He could discuss aluminium all day long and still keep people on the edge of their chair.
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I don't think he wants to be CEO. He admits he's a terrible presenter and says he loves his job b/c he gets to design all day. That's why I think someone like Tim Cook is perfect for the job. He manages the ship and lets the creative people create.
 
tmofee said:
yeah, have to agree with you there, sir. god knows what happens behind the scenes - he might be one of the best businessmen in the world, but he's onstage performance last keynote left me cold.
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Last keynote... Let me think... I seem to remember something happened at that time that would have made Mr. Cook not his usual happy self. One or two days after the keynote we all knew why he was not quite as enthusiastic as one would expect.


ILikeTurtles said:
I've always felt he was a dick. And my "intuition" is rarely wrong.
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I've rarely read a more convincing argument.


iRCL said:
If you're using a loupe with a real screen you're magnifying in the real analog world and that's ridiculous for a number of reasons. Do you know any graphic designer who would possibly do this? Of course not, and not because they aren't clever..
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Photoshop document tells you what it should look like on the screen. Loupe tells you what it really looks like. You can see the interaction between the graphics and the LCD pixels and sub pixels. How would you see the difference between a retina display and a lower resolution display except by looking at the actual display?
 
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iRCL said:
Are you seriously saying that a user of an iPhone would pull out a loupe to examine something on his screen?
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I am saying that it is stupid to try to use Photoshop to see something that might even not be there, like graphics possibly animated in an application. As stupid as making an autopsy to a dog to see how it did a trick.

I am saying that it would be even stupid-er to try to use Photoshop to review quickly any number of apps, when a flick of a fscking loupe would let you see the app in its natural environment in a fraction of a second, while you interact with it. Not even the normal zoom can help you there, since there is antialiasing and the sizes change. "Is this icon too small? does it get covered by the finger?"

And I am saying that it is stupid to handwave the screen away, since that's what the user will be seeing. "Is this grayed-out icon still visible when we have low light? when there is a finger smudge?"

Photoshopping icons has its uses. Reviewing apps is stretching them, even more so when one has any appreciation for her/his time. Is it really that difficult to grasp?
 
Going on the record…

I don't think Forstall has "it". "It" had more to do with Steve Jobs journey to returning to Apple than any particular abilities. As scripted narrative go you couldn't do any better. Only problem is, it'll never happen again at Apple.

There are likely many individuals on this planet capable of carrying Apple forward and through its inevitable decline phases. Not out of business mind you, just not the white hot phase it's been in for the past 10 years.

Maybe someone will promote the idea of Steve's son taking the helm one day - and won't that be a jolly farce!

:D
 
iRCL said:
This all sounds very amazing and romantic, except that's completely stupid. If he actually wanted to check every pixel, he would zoom in photoshop or another digital graphics editing software package that allows enlargement and observation of discrete pixels. If you're using a loupe with a real screen you're magnifying in the real analog world and that's ridiculous for a number of reasons. Do you know any graphic designer who would possibly do this? Of course not, and not because they aren't clever..
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Nice rant but if you zoom in on-screen then you're changing the actual pixels that are present and therefore not seeing a true representation of what's visible. It would make total sense to use some kind of non-computerized magnification if you wanted a closer look at the pixels in their actual context.
 
codo said:
This! For whatever my opinion is worth, I think Ive is a far more natural fit for Apple.
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Except that it appears he doesn't want to be a CEO. I say leave him where he is but with as much freedom as is possible.
 
daneoni said:
Hmm...not sure i fully see it. He doesn't scream Jobs' charisma to me...then again maybe nobody ever will. Time will tell i guess.
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Scott was personally recruited by Steve prior to Scott graduating from Stanford. Scott went to NEXT with Steve, then to Apple.

He will be Tim's replacement. The 10 year plan applies to the other Senior VP's as well who received the stock vesting incentive.

Their replacements 10 years from now are currently being groomed. I don't see any current Senior VP's staying without Tim. Except for Scott. :apple:
 
Maybe it's just me being judgmental, but I'm not too keen on this guy. He comes off as a little too aggressive and hard to work with. But who cares? Tim's going to be here for a long time anyway.
 
I'm going say this here for record. I don't think Tim Cook fits the bill for Apple CEO. All he has done publicly after being reigned in for the chief position was to look into some charity program and also the suppliers auditing nonsense. Apple didn't become great company because you matched a donation or set up a free class for the assembly workers. Apple became a great company by changing industries with game changing products. Tim is an operation guy and he should stay as COO. He is leading Apple to nowhere IMHO.
 
Marissa Mayer: Apple CEO (has a nice ring to it)

Apple should lure Marissa Mayer into the Apple fold to take over in about 10 or so years.

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The problem I have with Forstall is that he hasn't actually created anything, but he's chomping at the bit to try to takeover Apple, which means he's possibly a person with no real vision that just wants the prestige that goes along with being named Apple's CEO. This also means that wherever there's someone in house that does in fact have a visionary idea he would move to either squash it or steal it.
 
Imhotep397 said:
Apple should lure Marissa Mayer into the Apple fold to take over in about 10 or so years.

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The problem I have with Forstall is that he hasn't actually created anything, but he's chomping at the bit to try to takeover Apple, which means he's possibly a person with no real vision that just wants the prestige that goes along with being named Apple's CEO. This also means that wherever there's someone in house that does in fact have a visionary idea he would move to either squash it or steal it.
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Where do people get this stuff?

What do you know about what Forstall has created at Apple or that he's chomping at the bit to take over. :rolleyes:
 
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