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The thing about Forstall's achievements is he did them all under the shadow of Steve Jobs. Is it that he had to take a more active role now, and not just be a
by sounds 14y ago
The thing about Forstall's achievements is he did them all under the shadow of Steve Jobs.
Is it that he had to take a more active role now, and not just be a Jobs man?
Is it that Jobs could bring talented people together and keep them there and Tim Cook is failing to do that?
I'm almost certain it's neither of those, but they serve to illustrate the point: when people think of iOS, Scott Forstall is not even close to the first person they think of giving credit to.
- mlchild 14y agoI agree that probably neither or those explanations is fully true, but I do believe that Jobs had the ability to harness conflicting personalities towards greater goals. I do disagree with your last point, though —— I've watched every keynote for the past 6-7 years and Forstall has rocked the iOS presentations. Perhaps I'm biased, but I very deeply associate him with the greatness of iOS, particularly Apple's ability to steadily pick off the "low-hanging fruit" features (e.g. 3rd party apps in 2.0, copy-and-paste, PC-free) with regularity and elegance.