* you Fadell. Those grapes sour enough for ya? Then again who knows what the heck is going on in Apple nowadays with all the dirty laundry pouring out like a tsunami of filth.
Android is looking better and better each day, in a sad and twisted turn of events.
I get now why former Apple enthusiasts are "bi-curious" regarding Apple.
There might be no such place at Apple. Controlling him etc would mean kicking him out of a leadership position but if the reports are even half true, he won't take comment or instruction from anyone which means he's not going to accept being in any position with someone over his head. Which might be what Cook tried to do, wanting to move Ive into his current role putting him as 'Forstall's boss' and giving Ive power to veto the cute crap Forstall was so fond of adding rather than focusing on QC with the base functions and so on. Forstall may have said no way, as he reportedly despises Ive for getting all the attention and for disliking the skeuromorphic touches as unneeded nonsense. Forstall may have been told his choices were this shift or he could stay until the release of iOS 7 as an advisor to give comment with no vote and then be gone all together and he choose the latter (which would allow him to be around for his bigger stock grant next summer)
I agree for the most part, but I think all this talk of a "controlled" Forestall kind of misses the mark a bit. What we want is a more mature Forestall, not a more controlled Forestall. Since when are any "controlled" workers, really productive workers? Especially in creative endeavours.
By all accounts, Forestall (at his worst) behaves much like Steve Jobs did in Apple's early days when he was an immature, angry egomaniac. IMO it was his years in the wilderness and the spectacular "failure" of being fired that started Steve Jobs on the path to being a more mature, rounded individual. If Forestall wants to be like Steve Jobs, he needs to focus on the lessons of "Steve Jobs 2.0" not 1.0. He needs to grow up. He needs to relax. He probably needs some time away from it all.
If all goes well, he might even come back in ten years and be a whole new person just like his mentor.
Yeah, I'm a bit nervous that Scott Forstall is gone. The media seems to be giving him a lot of crap. "Mr. Skeuomorph is gone now." "The tyrant is gone now. Rejoice!"
Call me crazy, but I like tasteful skeuomorphism and more than one person would have called Steve Jobs a tyrant.
I'm very nervous. Scott Forstall wasn't just some chump; he was Steve Jobs' hand-picked leader of iOS development.
Fadell is the guy who gave us the iPod OS, but he lost out to Forstall when Forstall's team was able to deliver iPhone OS. I'm very nervous.
Love all the armchair-Apple employees in here who worked so closely with these guys.
It just may be Scott Forstall behaved himself when Steve Jobs was around and now that he's not, Scott's running amuck. This happens all the time after a mentor leaves and the apprentice attempts (assumes) to fill those shoes; usually by treating others with contempt as underlings.
Yeah, I'm a bit nervous that Scott Forstall is gone. The media seems to be giving him a lot of crap. "Mr. Skeuomorph is gone now." "The tyrant is gone now. Rejoice!"
Call me crazy, but I like tasteful skeuomorphism and more than one person would have called Steve Jobs a tyrant.
I'm very nervous. Scott Forstall wasn't just some chump; he was Steve Jobs' hand-picked leader of iOS development.
Fadell is the guy who gave us the iPod OS, but he lost out to Forstall when Forstall's team was able to deliver iPhone OS. I'm very nervous.
I tend to think that if his contributions were seen as that critical, he'd have many more supporters at Apple speaking up. (and maybe he does internally) That said, a little part of me wonders what will happen next.
I also don't mind a little bit of skeuomorphic design if it's tastefully done and adds to the user experience, but under no circumstances do I want time spent on unnecessary window dressing when there are more serious things broken or falling behind with the OS. You can put sprinkles on a stale, half-baked cookie, but it's still a stale, half-baked cookie.
FWIW, Fadell and Forstall offered competing OS solutions for the iPhone and they had very different approaches. Had Fadell's been chosen, the iPhone would not be the OS X- based pocket computer it is today.
Not saying that to discredit Fadell; just saying they were rivals at Apple regardless of how they felt about each other personally.
Love all the armchair-Apple employees in here who worked so closely with these guys.
It just may be Scott Forstall behaved himself when Steve Jobs was around and now that he's not, Scott's running amuck. This happens all the time after a mentor leaves and the apprentice attempts (assumes) to fill those shoes; usually by treating others with contempt as underlings.
Indeed. Guy that makes thermometers complains about guy that made iPhone. Go figure.
(Obviously I am being highly facetious here, but you get my gist...If needed I will eat my shoe if/when the truth is revealed)
Now THAT is the question.
Perhaps some people. The question is was the price worth it for what Apple delivered in the past 10 years, karma-wise.
I wonder if Forstall was making a CEO play. Because if he did that would make him really ambitious, maniacal perhaps. If not, maybe others were threatened by him. Wow, a real mystery this one.
I believe it is great wanking.
We comment as if we are gods and we are the better and every one else is inferior.
I agree for the most part, but I think all this talk of a "controlled" Forestall kind of misses the mark a bit. What we want is a more mature Forestall, not a more controlled Forestall. Since when are any "controlled" workers, really productive workers? Especially in creative endeavours.
By all accounts, Forestall (at his worst) behaves much like Steve Jobs did in Apple's early days when he was an immature, angry egomaniac. IMO it was his years in the wilderness and the spectacular "failure" of being fired that started Steve Jobs on the path to being a more mature, rounded individual. If Forestall wants to be like Steve Jobs, he needs to focus on the lessons of "Steve Jobs 2.0" not 1.0. He needs to grow up. He needs to relax. He probably needs some time away from it all.
If all goes well, he might even come back in ten years and be a whole new person just like his mentor.
Huh? He certainly got what he deserved. He screwed up two major product launches and worse, was a disruptive influence on the board. A bit more realism and a little less glassy eyed love needed here.
I'm not personally saying Forstall was "da man" for Apple's future - I have no real idea, however, the overall impression I get from all the reportage is that he was acting like he was without the title whether he had the quals to be or not. And tails that try to wag dogs in big orgs often get their comeuppance.
But to summarize his negative qualities with the word "disruptive".....? Yeah, when did Apple ever benefit from that quality......???
When an iconic founder/CEO leaves the org they willed into being against the odds, having the rest of "the staff" sit around in a happy unified circle singing Kumbayh is not necessarily a formula for continuing success.
My grade on the current team is an "incomplete" (with a few semi-botched mid-term assignments) until Apple releases its next device that's more than a mere iteration on the ones Jobs made real. All markets mature and become saturated with good enough (or arguably better) versions.
Apple's whole upward thrust has been based on creating major markets for things people didn't even know they wanted until Apple rolled them out. Resting on laurels and peace in the board room won't cut it in the long run.
And remember there would've been no Mac (and therefore no OS X, iPod, iTunes, iPhone, iPad, et al) if the company president in the early 80's hadn't holed himself and a team up in an area marked with a Skull and Crossbones flag to create it - with little support from the clinging-to-the-Apple II-board.
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The thing is there are quite a large number of executives (10-20) that are only now coming out of the woodwork. Part of Steve's genius was to, indeed, "sequester" them in such a way not to rub against others particularly if they were incompatible, and channel their energy in such a laser-focused and pure fashion.
Only now with those fighting over the scraps, as it were, do we see Steve's management skills. And probably why he got cancer with the stress load of dealing with such a wide variety of incredibly talented yet strong-willed upper-level and other-level staff.
The amount of creative energy being wasted on all this infighting is why we've seen quite a bit of disturbing sloppiness at Apple this past few months.
It's not promising, to be honest.
Reading the entrails - like any other detached rumor commentor, I also have at least a small sense of dis-ease about some recent developments.
Fadell was ousted. He wanted to push Linux as if it had a shot at Apple. Being from NeXT and Apple let me put it this way: MkLinux was used to get Openstep boot loaded onto Mac PowerPC hardware and that is where it ended. The fact Fadell even thought Linux over the XNU [Mach Hybrid] shows just out of touch he was and misunderstood the history of Steven P. Jobs.
Yes, Scott is an aquired taste. If you thought he was abrasive worth calling out as a complete a-hole I can personally attest when you do that to him and you can back up what you have to say the guy showed nothing but respect for you from then on out. I had one confrontation with Scott and once he knew my backbone I never saw him remotely attempt to push himself as an alpha male over me again. He respected strong constitutions. He was less tolerant than I on those that don't have it and less artful in his language to put a person in their place [if warranted] but the man was highly respected for his intelligence.
I would submit that there seems to be a lot of whining about Scott's overbearing personality and not enough acceptance of whimpy personalities on behalf of other Apple executives who should have had no problem telling him off when he crossed the line. If he was this much of a disruption it is not hard to have dropped kicked his butt years ago.
Fortunately, we have Scott with enough brains to use OS X Darwin for the embedded space and the clear blind spot of Faddell for even wasting Jobs time on Linux. He and I are the same age. He arrived after I had left Apple and clearly he never got the memo that the attempts of getting Torvalds interested on working on a new kernel didn't end well when he pushed for Linux.
P.S. I'm writing this on Debian Linux which has steadily deteriorated over the past 5 years along with the stability of the Linux Kernel since the 3.x releases. When FreeBSD 10 arrives my systems are moving over to it.
That's a very interesting read. Forstall was put head-to-head against Fadell and developed iOS with just 15 other engineers and they tried to poach talent for each project. I'm glad they went with OS X and not iPod OS. It explains why Fadell feels the way he does if his last encounters with Forstall were ones of bitter competition.
It just may be Scott Forstall behaved himself when Steve Jobs was around and now that he's not, Scott's running amuck.
It could be but that wouldn't explain Rubinstein and Fadell who were gone long before. It seems more like there's been a long history of bad feelings and it's just spilled over. Steve might have been able to sort it out but Tim has a different nature. We can see that from the apologies he sends out to customers. I think he would have tried to reach the scenario that stopped the complaints. That's not always the right way of course but it's his decision to make.
One thing I know for sure is that upcoming keynotes are going to be even less entertaining than they are now. I wonder if he'll make a last appearance before he leaves next year. He's been there for 15 years. Then on stage, he can just burst into tears and ask if he can stay. The whole world is watching, what are they going to do? They have to just all hug it out and everyone can get back to doing what they love doing. Get Fadell and Rubinstein in on it too and put the past behind them. They're all millionaires and successful in their own right, there's no need for this.
It just goes to show that only Steve was able to handle these personalities. The current executive are not smart enough to put someone like Forstall in his place. Notice these issue did not exist when Steve was around. Also as soon as Tim Cook was put in place he immediately put in a layer of management between him and people like Forstall, why, because he does not know how to deal with these overly creative technical people. Steve did since he was just like them.
I personally think this is bad for apple, they will bounce all these types and only be left with the sheeps.
I am still hoping Tim Cook changes his mind and retains Scott Forstall at Apple.
The fact of the matter is that Forstall and his team have delivered an extraordinary operating system in iOS release after release and he was not responsible for the iOS Map issues. Apple needs a Steve Jobs junior and a controlled Forstall would be a great asset for Apple.
I think Tony Fadel holds grudges and that's his problem to deal with.
Time will tell.
You cannot control narcissists or sociopaths. They may be suppressed under "superior sociopaths" but that's about the best of it.
Edit: thanks for inserting your code in the middle of my typing. I wasn't calling anyone a cabbit, whatever that is.
"...Only now with those fighting over the scraps, as it were, do we see Steve's management skills. And probably why he got cancer..."
Good grief, given the way SJ so easily handed out abuse and stressed people out, how many people do you reckon SJ 'inflicted with cancer'?
Exactly right. I don't know and more about Jobs being a sociopath or a narcissist than Forstall, but there are lots of indicators in both cases, more with Jobs. Maybe he found his way with family near the end, but his reputation is well known in the business world. He's not a god or even particularly genius. He was very controlling and the computer industry is anything but controlled and guided. So maybe that worked. His ideas and ideologies for technology weren't geek oriented. Having the ability to force others into that path was good for the industry. My concern of his demise is that (aside from leaving a family without him) the control and non-geek ideologies needed to bring the computer industry out of its dark infancy are not present elsewhere, especially in a position of power and influence that will affect anything.
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Originally Posted by sr2012
* you Fadell. Those grapes sour enough for ya? Then again who knows what the heck is going on in Apple nowadays with all the dirty laundry pouring out like a tsunami of filth.
Android is looking better and better each day, in a sad and twisted turn of events.
I get now why former Apple enthusiasts are "bi-curious" regarding Apple.
Is that you Scott?
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Originally Posted by island hermit
Definitely sounds like a love triangle. How bromantic.
... but if Apple is going to keep anyone happy it better be Ive. Otherwise they are Cooked!
"Cooked"... I see what you did there.
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Originally Posted by charlituna
There might be no such place at Apple. Controlling him etc would mean kicking him out of a leadership position but if the reports are even half true, he won't take comment or instruction from anyone which means he's not going to accept being in any position with someone over his head. Which might be what Cook tried to do, wanting to move Ive into his current role putting him as 'Forstall's boss' and giving Ive power to veto the cute crap Forstall was so fond of adding rather than focusing on QC with the base functions and so on. Forstall may have said no way, as he reportedly despises Ive for getting all the attention and for disliking the skeuromorphic touches as unneeded nonsense. Forstall may have been told his choices were this shift or he could stay until the release of iOS 7 as an advisor to give comment with no vote and then be gone all together and he choose the latter (which would allow him to be around for his bigger stock grant next summer)
I agree for the most part, but I think all this talk of a "controlled" Forestall kind of misses the mark a bit. What we want is a more mature Forestall, not a more controlled Forestall. Since when are any "controlled" workers, really productive workers? Especially in creative endeavours.
By all accounts, Forestall (at his worst) behaves much like Steve Jobs did in Apple's early days when he was an immature, angry egomaniac. IMO it was his years in the wilderness and the spectacular "failure" of being fired that started Steve Jobs on the path to being a more mature, rounded individual. If Forestall wants to be like Steve Jobs, he needs to focus on the lessons of "Steve Jobs 2.0" not 1.0. He needs to grow up. He needs to relax. He probably needs some time away from it all.
If all goes well, he might even come back in ten years and be a whole new person just like his mentor.
Originally Posted by Gazoobee
If all goes well, he might even come back in ten years and be a whole new person just like his mentor.
Hopefully not just in time to save Apple.
Call me crazy, but I like tasteful skeuomorphism and more than one person would have called Steve Jobs a tyrant.
I'm very nervous. Scott Forstall wasn't just some chump; he was Steve Jobs' hand-picked leader of iOS development.
Fadell is the guy who gave us the iPod OS, but he lost out to Forstall when Forstall's team was able to deliver iPhone OS. I'm very nervous.
Love all the armchair-Apple employees in here who worked so closely with these guys.
It just may be Scott Forstall behaved himself when Steve Jobs was around and now that he's not, Scott's running amuck. This happens all the time after a mentor leaves and the apprentice attempts (assumes) to fill those shoes; usually by treating others with contempt as underlings.
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Yeah, I'm a bit nervous that Scott Forstall is gone. The media seems to be giving him a lot of crap. "Mr. Skeuomorph is gone now." "The tyrant is gone now. Rejoice!"
Call me crazy, but I like tasteful skeuomorphism and more than one person would have called Steve Jobs a tyrant.
I'm very nervous. Scott Forstall wasn't just some chump; he was Steve Jobs' hand-picked leader of iOS development.
Fadell is the guy who gave us the iPod OS, but he lost out to Forstall when Forstall's team was able to deliver iPhone OS. I'm very nervous.
I tend to think that if his contributions were seen as that critical, he'd have many more supporters at Apple speaking up. (and maybe he does internally) That said, a little part of me wonders what will happen next.
I also don't mind a little bit of skeuomorphic design if it's tastefully done and adds to the user experience, but under no circumstances do I want time spent on unnecessary window dressing when there are more serious things broken or falling behind with the OS. You can put sprinkles on a stale, half-baked cookie, but it's still a stale, half-baked cookie.
Not saying that to discredit Fadell; just saying they were rivals at Apple regardless of how they felt about each other personally.
Scott would never praise Android. See Concern Troll.
Self love... the best kind.
I believe it is great wanking.
We comment as if we are gods and we are the better and every one else is inferior.
Yes we know best and everyone else is an idiot.
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I agree for the most part, but I think all this talk of a "controlled" Forestall kind of misses the mark a bit. What we want is a more mature Forestall, not a more controlled Forestall. Since when are any "controlled" workers, really productive workers? Especially in creative endeavours.
By all accounts, Forestall (at his worst) behaves much like Steve Jobs did in Apple's early days when he was an immature, angry egomaniac. IMO it was his years in the wilderness and the spectacular "failure" of being fired that started Steve Jobs on the path to being a more mature, rounded individual. If Forestall wants to be like Steve Jobs, he needs to focus on the lessons of "Steve Jobs 2.0" not 1.0. He needs to grow up. He needs to relax. He probably needs some time away from it all.
If all goes well, he might even come back in ten years and be a whole new person just like his mentor.
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Huh? He certainly got what he deserved. He screwed up two major product launches and worse, was a disruptive influence on the board. A bit more realism and a little less glassy eyed love needed here.
I'm not personally saying Forstall was "da man" for Apple's future - I have no real idea, however, the overall impression I get from all the reportage is that he was acting like he was without the title whether he had the quals to be or not. And tails that try to wag dogs in big orgs often get their comeuppance.
But to summarize his negative qualities with the word "disruptive".....? Yeah, when did Apple ever benefit from that quality......???
When an iconic founder/CEO leaves the org they willed into being against the odds, having the rest of "the staff" sit around in a happy unified circle singing Kumbayh is not necessarily a formula for continuing success.
My grade on the current team is an "incomplete" (with a few semi-botched mid-term assignments) until Apple releases its next device that's more than a mere iteration on the ones Jobs made real. All markets mature and become saturated with good enough (or arguably better) versions.
Apple's whole upward thrust has been based on creating major markets for things people didn't even know they wanted until Apple rolled them out. Resting on laurels and peace in the board room won't cut it in the long run.
And remember there would've been no Mac (and therefore no OS X, iPod, iTunes, iPhone, iPad, et al) if the company president in the early 80's hadn't holed himself and a team up in an area marked with a Skull and Crossbones flag to create it - with little support from the clinging-to-the-Apple II-board.
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Originally Posted by sr2012
The thing is there are quite a large number of executives (10-20) that are only now coming out of the woodwork. Part of Steve's genius was to, indeed, "sequester" them in such a way not to rub against others particularly if they were incompatible, and channel their energy in such a laser-focused and pure fashion.
Only now with those fighting over the scraps, as it were, do we see Steve's management skills. And probably why he got cancer with the stress load of dealing with such a wide variety of incredibly talented yet strong-willed upper-level and other-level staff.
The amount of creative energy being wasted on all this infighting is why we've seen quite a bit of disturbing sloppiness at Apple this past few months.
It's not promising, to be honest.
Reading the entrails - like any other detached rumor commentor, I also have at least a small sense of dis-ease about some recent developments.
Yes, Scott is an aquired taste. If you thought he was abrasive worth calling out as a complete a-hole I can personally attest when you do that to him and you can back up what you have to say the guy showed nothing but respect for you from then on out. I had one confrontation with Scott and once he knew my backbone I never saw him remotely attempt to push himself as an alpha male over me again. He respected strong constitutions. He was less tolerant than I on those that don't have it and less artful in his language to put a person in their place [if warranted] but the man was highly respected for his intelligence.
I would submit that there seems to be a lot of whining about Scott's overbearing personality and not enough acceptance of whimpy personalities on behalf of other Apple executives who should have had no problem telling him off when he crossed the line. If he was this much of a disruption it is not hard to have dropped kicked his butt years ago.
Fortunately, we have Scott with enough brains to use OS X Darwin for the embedded space and the clear blind spot of Faddell for even wasting Jobs time on Linux. He and I are the same age. He arrived after I had left Apple and clearly he never got the memo that the attempts of getting Torvalds interested on working on a new kernel didn't end well when he pushed for Linux.
P.S. I'm writing this on Debian Linux which has steadily deteriorated over the past 5 years along with the stability of the Linux Kernel since the 3.x releases. When FreeBSD 10 arrives my systems are moving over to it.
That's a very interesting read. Forstall was put head-to-head against Fadell and developed iOS with just 15 other engineers and they tried to poach talent for each project. I'm glad they went with OS X and not iPod OS. It explains why Fadell feels the way he does if his last encounters with Forstall were ones of bitter competition.
It could be but that wouldn't explain Rubinstein and Fadell who were gone long before. It seems more like there's been a long history of bad feelings and it's just spilled over. Steve might have been able to sort it out but Tim has a different nature. We can see that from the apologies he sends out to customers. I think he would have tried to reach the scenario that stopped the complaints. That's not always the right way of course but it's his decision to make.
One thing I know for sure is that upcoming keynotes are going to be even less entertaining than they are now. I wonder if he'll make a last appearance before he leaves next year. He's been there for 15 years. Then on stage, he can just burst into tears and ask if he can stay. The whole world is watching, what are they going to do? They have to just all hug it out and everyone can get back to doing what they love doing. Get Fadell and Rubinstein in on it too and put the past behind them. They're all millionaires and successful in their own right, there's no need for this.
It just goes to show that only Steve was able to handle these personalities. The current executive are not smart enough to put someone like Forstall in his place. Notice these issue did not exist when Steve was around. Also as soon as Tim Cook was put in place he immediately put in a layer of management between him and people like Forstall, why, because he does not know how to deal with these overly creative technical people. Steve did since he was just like them.
I personally think this is bad for apple, they will bounce all these types and only be left with the sheeps.
You cannot control narcissists or sociopaths. They may be suppressed under "superior sociopaths" but that's about the best of it.
Edit: thanks for inserting your code in the middle of my typing. I wasn't calling anyone a cabbit, whatever that is.
Exactly right. I don't know and more about Jobs being a sociopath or a narcissist than Forstall, but there are lots of indicators in both cases, more with Jobs. Maybe he found his way with family near the end, but his reputation is well known in the business world. He's not a god or even particularly genius. He was very controlling and the computer industry is anything but controlled and guided. So maybe that worked. His ideas and ideologies for technology weren't geek oriented. Having the ability to force others into that path was good for the industry. My concern of his demise is that (aside from leaving a family without him) the control and non-geek ideologies needed to bring the computer industry out of its dark infancy are not present elsewhere, especially in a position of power and influence that will affect anything.