Apple booting Scott Forstall out...

Forstall had a big influence on all the skeuomorphic stuff which I'll be glad to see go - it looked out of place. I don't think this means we'll be seeing huge changes, but lots of little ones and having a closer knit hardware/software team can only make things better. I'd be interested to see Ive have a go at the interface itself.
 
MilanoChris said:
Start of Apple's downfall?
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Why? Ive hated Forstall, so did Mansfield (notice how he's gone from retiring, to signing on for another 2 years) and it seemed most of the lesser employees didn't like him either. It looks like with him gone the other top dogs have jumped in to spread his workload amongst themselves - bad er... apple in the cart.
 
MilanoChris said:
Because all Apple seem to do is re-invent the wheels while Google for example are releasing great new features in Android. Apple isn't innovating anymore. Sacking two people won't cover this up or change much at all.
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I don't think you get it. Forstall pretty much ran the iOS ship when it came to the interface. What we're seeing now is some serious changes into the way Apple is structured, it's not just sacking, they've basically taken all the divisions and merged them into three big ones where as before there were different people running different things.

Federighi is now in charge of ALL the software, not just OS X. Ive is in charge of ALL design, not just the product design, but interface design too. Cue is now in charge of ALL the big services.

What will be interesting is how they'll cope now we're going from 'too many cooks' to more responsibility shared by less people.
 
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