Reportedly, Forstall wasn’t liked by the other senior execs but was kept “safe” as Jobs’ protégé, they thought alike and shared the love for skeuomorphism design. Ive in particular disliked Forstall, and Tim Cook made a choice.
replyhttps://www.businessinsider.com/apples-minimalist-ive-assume...
Could Forstall potentially return under new Apple leadership?
replyHe produces Broadway shows these days. Never say never but that kind of thing screams an “I’ve got all the cash I need, now I’m following my passions” mindset. You certainly don’t do it for the money…
replyAnd met his co-producer for the (Tony-winning!) show at Lars Ulrich's birthday party! He's doing something right. https://archive.is/ZcTJm
reply>He's doing something right.
replyYes, being rich.
What? No. Why would he even want to?
replyEnormous amounts of money?
replyHe’s already escaped the permanent underclass.
replyMeaning it's not permanent.
replyThe idea is that it becomes permanent in the future.
reply> Maps was bad at launch yes, but it also wouldn't get better without people contributing more data, and the fact that it took a decade to slowly improve implies that there's nothing anyone could have done to get it right "off the bat".
replyAbsolutely.
Was the choice to release way way way too early the right choice in the end? Needed telemetry, or even more time, to beat Google? Also taking the data from Google must have had significant ramifications.
Forstall fired an engineer I had worked with (and who I respected a lot) to take the fall for Apple Maps.
replyLike one engineer could ever be responsible for that epic of a fiasco?
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