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?"

Comments

Re:Skeuomorphic design is useless and stupid

[Jarik C-Bol]

ok, anti skeuomophic people, answer me a few simple questions.
what do you propose to use to replace the following (when text is not an option)
the 'save icon'
the 'home' icon in browsers
the 'address book' icon
the phone icon


all of these are skeuomorphic icons, the floppy disk being the most outdated (in some regards anyhow). I agree that texturing the address book application itself to look like a spiral bound leather book with parchment pages is a waste of cycles, but skeuomorphics do have there (limited) place in a non textual interface.

The problem with eliminating the less decorative skeuomorphics (like the save button) is that, while (young) people who never used floppy disks may not know what it is a picture of, they do know what it *does*. If you start eradicating them from your system, and replacing them with whatever you see fit, people are going to hate it.
Just try any piece of software that has done exactly that (you run into it in cheep games a bit, and bad free software all the time)

All existing users have been trained to know that the little 'square thing with two rectangles in it' (floppy disk) means save, so why retrain everyone, because the untrained don't know yet?

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

[doti]

The iSheep is singing