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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?"
Hey, quit saying "skeuomorphic" in there!
This reads like a Stalinist missive regarding the liquidation of some member of the Politburo.
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
[Apple] Oh, and we trust you'll shut down that silly little Android thing you've been doing.
They have so much money it's sinking the ship.
From the pictures I saw, I know of one ship (if you can call it that) that should be sunk.
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
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.
Waiting for an amusing sig.
To be fair, nukes don't so much sink ships as move the surrounding ocean above them.
I read TFA and all I got was this lousy cookie
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"The iShip is syncing..."
it's called android
Lmao. If I wanted a UI that changes every revision, I'd go with windows.
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.
When our name is on the back of your car, we're behind you all the way!
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...
What part of "a well regulated militia" do you not understand?
We apologize again for the faults in iOS 6. Those responsible for sacking the people who have just been sacked have been sacked.
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.
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!
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.