Forstalling the Obvious?

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A number of 'Apple-friendly' sites picked up a rare tweet from Scott Forstall the other day.

Scott Forstall is of course the NeXT/Apple dude what organised the mobile projects and who later explained in a talk at Stanford how he found the people he needed.

'Happy 20th Birthday OS X! I still remember when we named you. In a small room in IL1. When Steve slashed a large X on the wall and smiled. Look at how far you've come from a young Cheetah.'

Over at always-fanboy MDN one commenter calling himself 'GoeB' slammed it.

Say what you will naysayers, but Forstall was a creative GENUIS [sic] and Steve's right hand. No person alive today is better suited to run Apple now, the present players are posers and beancounters.

For his illustrious career and many cutting edge Apple accomplishments deeper than the Pacific Challenger Ocean to be shown the door abruptly was Cook's biggest mistake. Let's not forget Cook was Steve's biggest mistake.

My speculation is Scott intimidated the hell out of the executive team. His aggressiveness, sheer talent and impressive resume of creative Apple accomplishments - threatened Ive and particularly threatened Cook's leadership. Guessing in an executive coup he was removed a Corporate Politics 101 move you replace the highest profile person from the previous management era. A shot across the bow tactic and a sign anyone can be replaced.

Yes, Apple Maps was not ready for prime time. Certainly multiple mistakes were made and were easily corrected later on. But to end a historic Apple comeback career over a media hyped mistake and not have Scott's back for decades of dedicated service, simply speaks VOLUMES about Cook and his insecure leadership.

'Neither Forstall nor any other Apple executive has commented publicly on his departure beyond the initial press statement, but it is generally presumed that Forstall left his position involuntarily.' - Wikipedia

Career details here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Forstall

Apple Board, PLEASE replace the HYPOCRITE fake SJW and beancounter lacking creative skills. Now that Scott's creative number one rival Ive left Apple, perfect time for Forstall the second prodigal son return to Apple. Two options: Cook goes, or if they can work together Cook as Number Two position he held under Jobs.

Or, another creative genius takes the helm leading Apple to creative heights never seen before. Anyone but Cook dragging Apple into embarrassing partisan woke politics, bowing to censorship from Chinese masters and time to end Apple's slave labor conditions in Communist China and elsewhere.

But how clued-in was Forstall anyway? How much of an influence did he really have in the 'formative' years when Apple's new OS was still open source and their marketing department still flirted salaciously with the open source community?

And - above all - why the [%^^%] did they waste five whole years to rerelease a product that was already on the market?

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