Shake-up at Apple: Forstall Out; iOS Executive Fired For Maps Debacle?

New submitter noh8rz10 writes "Apple's Scott Forstall, who grew iOS from its inception, is departing the company. Rumors say it's because of the Maps debacle, and problems with Siri as well. Jony Ive is taking a larger human interface role, which means he may kill the skeuomorphic interfaces he hates. John Browett, head of retail, is out as well; he never won the trust of the community. What does such a major shakeup say about Tim Cook's leadership?"

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[Anonymous Coward]

Hey, quit saying "skeuomorphic" in there!

Re:Ten years too late

[MightyMartian]

This reads like a Stalinist missive regarding the liquidation of some member of the Politburo.

Re:Huge missed opportunity.

[Anonymous Coward]

[Apple] Oh, and we trust you'll shut down that silly little Android thing you've been doing.

Re:The rats are being thrown off the sinking ship.

[amiga3D]

They have so much money it's sinking the ship.

Re:The rats are being thrown off the sinking ship.

[fustakrakich]

From the pictures I saw, I know of one ship (if you can call it that) that should be sunk.

Re:Just another case of office politics

[MrDoh!]

He wasn't exactly fired as such. Just told to do a Starbucks run for everyone before the meeting, and if he's not back in an hour, don't come back. "Oh, and you have to use Apple Maps" Thus the problem solved itself.

Re:The rats are being thrown off the sinking ship.

[Mitchell314]

To be fair, nukes don't so much sink ships as move the surrounding ocean above them.

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Re:The rats are being thrown off the sinking ship.

[Anonymous Coward]

"The iShip is syncing..."

Re:jony!!!!

[the_B0fh]

it's called android

Lmao. If I wanted a UI that changes every revision, I'd go with windows.

Re:Skeuomorphic design is useless and stupid

[camperdave]

I've seen people click on the floppy disk icon, navigate to their file, and click OK when they want to load something from the disk. The glistening of their eyes and the little quiver they get in their lower lip when I tell them that they've just wiped out all of their work... well, there's no putting a price on some aspects of my job.

Re:Skeuomorphic design is useless and stupid

[NoMaster]

They're just using the "boiling the frog" method to avoid users from jumping out of the pot.

True. Compared to Microsoft's method of putting the frog straight in the microwave and hitting "Start".

Or the Open Source way: look around, see that everybody is cooking frogs, and choosing instead to do a from-the-ground-up no-cooking-required reimplementation of a toad. Then trying to convince the rest of the world their choice is better because it's not only bigger and capable of jumping further than a frog, but can also kill small mammals and survive in your chlorinated swimming pool...

Re:sucks

[SuperMooCow]

We apologize again for the faults in iOS 6. Those responsible for sacking the people who have just been sacked have been sacked.

Re:trust of the community????

[El_Muerte_TDS]

The Apple Washing machine will only allow you to wash blue jeans and black turtlenecks. You can buy an extension in the store to wash white T-Shirts. The app for washing black jeans or red turtlenecks was rejected because it was a conflict of interest for Apple.

Re:well that explains a lot

[R3d M3rcury]

BTW, good idea, Apple, announcing a top floor slaughter while Wall St. is closed and a natural disaster is playing out.

Oh, you just think it's a coincidence? Apple has been planning this for weeks. They even made up the storm--remember that Apple computers are used in video special-effects. There is no hurricane. It's a conspiracy between Apple and Obama!

Yeah! That's the ticket!

Re:trust of the community????

[gnasher719]

To technical people, the average /.er, the computer is a tool. You code something, the computer does it.

Well said. But consider that to average people, the average /.er is a tool.