I thought he got fired cause he wouldn't apologize to the public about maps. So cook had to suck it up and apologize.
Forstall running the show?!? Yeah right, look at the mess he made with maps.....why have you all forgotten that. He got sacked for screwing up - he also did not keep high enough standards.
If cook went or when he does Ive should take over. He like Jobs gets the intersect between technology and art, forstall does not have a clue about the design element which is what makes Apple apple.
Forstall, a programmer? Seriously? Why not bring in Bill gates or the other one that just retired from windows. Programmers running it.....if you want windows buy windows - simple.
I thought he got fired cause he wouldn't apologize to the public about maps. So cook had to suck it up and apologize.
I thought he got fired cause he wouldn't apologize to the public about maps. So cook had to suck it up and apologize.
Steve had a private jet? lol. I love how he went from living on a commune to flying in a private jet.
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The one that should get fired is Eddy Cue. All Apple web services are crap!
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Send Cook back to the counting house. He was an excellent COO.
Send Cook back to the counting house. He was an excellent COO.
Some of you are nuts.More new features in iOS 7 and 8 than all the previous iOS updates combined.I call the forestall days the dark ages of iOS.Just pick up a device running iOS 6 and see how terrible it looks.
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It's a comparison......WIndows? Who's asking for Windows?
I prefer the flat over skeumorphic.
Forstall had so much more to do with iOS than just skeumorphism:
Forstall's name is on 166 pending patent applications. That's more than anyone at the company, according to data from investment bank MDB Capital.
"He's one of, if not the most prolific inventors at Apple,"
I'm certain Forstall would've eventually adapted iOS to a flat design, and I'm certain that a lot of his ideas are used in iOS 7 & iOS 8. The guy and his team created iOS, Safari, and Aqua for Pete's sake, and got fired for a Maps app that still sucks to this day?
Maps was a monumental task to undertake and I applaud him for not apologizing to the pencil pusher Tim Cook and standing his ground. Cook fired him to show the world that he was fully in charge at Apple; it was an ego contest. Now we get garbage like iOS 8.0.1 and Healthkit that doesn't work most of the time.
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Riiiiight. And we all know IOS was picture perfect until he got fired.
It's a comparison......
The ethos of Apple is very different to that of windows. Apple focuses on art and technology intersecting, windows on programming. If people want a programmer running Apple then what they want is what happens at windows - buy that and stop moaning here. Simple![]()
Yes, good idea. He should be coo and ceo.
No software is picture perfect, but it was definitely more stable. The lone argument of skeuomorphism is tired and weak. The man was responsible for a lot of things that make iOS and OS X great.
From his wiki:
Forstall was also responsible for creating a software developer's kit for programmers to build iPhone apps, as well as an App Store within iTunes
Don't sit up here and pretend that the man wasn't a great asset.
OK by me. I have no issue with Windows. I use both Windows and OS X. I'm a Mac user at heart but there are some tasks that Windows does better or exclusively. I spend more time on my Mac but there is always a Windows unit here when I need it.
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Who is COO?
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