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Peak Apple: Forstall was 'closest thing to Jobs they had left'
- Cbasedlifeform 14y agoWell to paraphrase Lloyd Bentsen, "I knew Steve Jobs, and Scott Forstall you're no Steve Jobs..." Forstall was like Jobs in three key ways Lopp said: he was an asshole, he was successful and no one was sure why. Apple would miss the presence of people who tended to blow up at departmental meetings and swear wildly about small design features, he said I think most people had some sense of why Jobs was successful. Look at e.g. the early NEXT era videos floating around.
- sneak 14y agoIt seems to me that there's more to being an effective visionary than just constantly being a dick to people. The people who think that Apple isn't a model of collaboration have no idea what is actually involved in Building Things.