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Former Apple Exec Scott Forstall Celebrates 20th Birthday of Mac OS X
Scott Forstall on Wednesday afternoon: Happy 20th Birthday Mac 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. https://twitter.com/forstall/status/1374838580971892736 Forstall led the iPhone development team under Steve Jobs,...
Former Apple Exec Scott Forstall Talks Taking Risks, Apple TV, and Smartphone Etiquette in New Interview
Scott Forstall, Apple's former head of iOS development, recently sat down with Stanford philosophy school faculty Josh Landy and Ken Taylor in an episode of Philosophy Talk's The Creative Life, a radio show that airs biweekly in the San Francisco Bay Area. During the interview, the former Apple exec touched on a number of different topics,...
Steve Jobs’ Dislike of a Microsoft Employee Led to Creation of the iPhone [VIDEO]
The iPhone has such a memorable design today, it's being copied by various manufacturers for their own devices. But according to Apple insiders, the original iPhone had its iconic look because Steve Jobs just really hated someone at Microsoft. Scott Forstall, the former iOS guru that was responsible for iOS development up until Apple’s famous...
Ex-Apple Exec Scott Forstall to Speak Publicly About History of iPhone for the First Time
Scott Forstall, the former Apple executive who led the creation of iOS, the software that powers the iPhones, iPads and iPods, was reportedly fired by the company back in 2012 for rolling out a buggy and half-baked version of Apple Maps. Ever since his departure from Apple, Forstall has kept a very low profile in the technology industry but now,...
Tony Fadell Shares Details on Early iPhone Development, Virtual iPod-Style Clickwheel
Former Apple executive Tony Fadell discusses the early development of the iPhone, Steve Jobs' insistence about a rotary dial in software, and the evolution of the iPod in a new interview with The Verge. During the interview on Wednesday, Fadell said: "The first thing was, we wanted to make an iPod Video product work better....
How Scott Forstall Became a Co-Producer of Broadway’s ‘Fun Home’
Former Apple executive and a longtime theater lover Scott Forstall is one of the producers of “Fun Home,” the critically acclaimed Broadway musical that received 12 Tony nominations last month. Forstall revealed in a recent interview with The Wall Street Journal that he found himself “connecting to the themes” of the musical when he read the script...
Former iOS Chief Scott Forstall’s New Gig: Broadway Musical Producer
Who is that (famous) person who has been the head of a popular mobile platform, the advisor of a unique messaging app, and is now the co-producer of an upcoming Broadway musical? If your answer was Scott Forstall, you won. If not, well, you have to read the latest buzz around the former iOS chief....
Former Apple Exec Scott Forstall Reportedly Advising Startups
Scott Forstall, Apple’s former senior vice president of iOS Software Engineering, was ousted from Apple just over one year ago. Ever since his departure many people have been wondering what he has been up to. According to Amir Efrati, from The Information, Forstall has spent the past year travelling Italy and South Africa. He has...