And that 'douche' is famous, has millions of dollars in his name, and is set for life. Now, please go back to your cubical and finish that exciting Excel sheet you have been working on.
one douche sticking up for another douche
And that 'douche' is famous, has millions of dollars in his name, and is set for life. Now, please go back to your cubical and finish that exciting Excel sheet you have been working on.
Forstall is the source of most of the things wrong with iOS, IMO.
Phazer
I think they need a woman in their presentation mix...Some woman who has good presence...they could call her SIRI...
I feel like I should expand on this.
What do I see as some of the main structural problems with the iOS business -
1) That the iOS development team does not seem to have assigned developers who work on the included apps, and these are treated like an afterthought in staff resourcing. This means for example it's likely nobody has even looked at the code of the YouTube app since iOS3, since no one owns it. A number of the core apps have been neglected. That's because the iOS division structure doesn't seem to be right to be as good as it could be. Forstall is in charge of this, and hasn't fixed it.
2) That iOS development has continued to spread it's limited resource very thinly in order to acquire a bigger power base within the company by porting the OS to ever more devices. Not only do the ports themselves eat masses of time, they also make further development more complex in future. As such, development gets even slower.
These are the reasons why it seems like every iOS update since iOS3 slows the pace of development down, rather than up. It's why big problems with the UI get ignored time after time (accessing wi-fi etc), and why Apple doesn't come up with creative solutions to common problems (the iPad is a household device, so why is there no way for multiple people to use it without constantly logging in and out of every app? I don't want the OSX user account dialogue box, but how about something innovative with face recognition?) anymore.
Meanwhile time is wasted on things that seem ephremal trivia, like splitting up the iPod app, presumably based on Forstall's personal prejudices.
Phazer
Sounds interesting. Got a link for this?You should read the article in Wired magazine for the behind the scenes info during the iPhone development.
Android is bases on Linux for those who are curious.
Also, it wasn't Google's baby at first, they bought it and developed it.
Sounds interesting. Got a link for this?
I don't know about the Siri part, but I agree, I also think they need a woman in the mix. Anything is better than looking at the current crew all the time.
Slightly tongue in cheek, I vote for the pretty Canadian from T-Mobile's commercials![]()
I think he may have a glass eye. But that's just my guess.
My take is that the media is trying to compensate for the absence of Jobs by spinning a Steve Jr. out of Scott. It makes for a good story, at minimum. And by the comments here, most of us seem to be biting. Not to take anything away from the new leadership, but I don't think either Tim or Scott will ever attain to the iconic status that Steve Jobs did.
Would we all be correct in thinking you would have done it all so much better then? You never know, with Apple in so much trouble, maybe they'll give you a call.
I like Forstall, he looks creepy though
one douche sticking up for another douche
1) That the iOS development team does not seem to have assigned developers who work on the included apps, and these are treated like an afterthought in staff resourcing. This means for example it's likely nobody has even looked at the code of the YouTube app since iOS3, since no one owns it.
I actually feel the opposite. Im not sure why, but whenever I see him on stage I just see snobbiness and jocky-ness. Obviously I don't know the guy and I could be wrong, but I sense that he's in his own world, and he's a douche to everyone. Of course, I could be wrong.
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The profile also reports that Forstall may also been an indirect cause of the lost iPhone 4 prototype in 2010. Forstall reportedly convinced Jobs to allow dozens of his engineers to carry prototypes of the then unreleased iPhone 4. It was one of those employees who lost the iPhone 4 at a Redwood City, California bar where it was picked up and sold to Gizmodo.
Uh, no. Cause of iPhone being lost - dumb/drunk engineer who left it in a bar.
Exactly.
Plus it's good to take the new product out of the lab and into the field to test it.
But let's not make it 3 years in a row, Apple....