Hey, you don't need to convince me that iOS has gone stale, I'm the guy who was pilloried on here for saying so over the summer. There is much irony in some of those same pilloriers now claiming of course Forstall had to go, because iOS wasn't moving forward.
Sure, but I had joined you in those thoughts and am now wondering why we are on the opposite sides of this issue. I simply cant get worked up about his firing when I thought his work has sucked for the last two upgrades.
But let me posit you this - what if Maps was, in fact, a Tim Cook special? As in a mandate from above imposed on the technical team over Forstall's objections?
I can only extrapolate from the stuff I have read about the personalities involved, but I have read nothing that indicates that this is Tim Cook's style. According to Bloomberg, the initial push for Apple Maps actually came from Jobs. Who knows, maybe people within the company viewed this as something that had to get out because it had been pushed by Jobs himself.
I think Gruber had an interesting take on this. Jobs was the final word on everything within Apple. With him gone, there was no central figure in that role...well, Cook just picked the man for the job and it is Ive.
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