Today the OS gets official, and Scott Forstall demoed the software on the iPhone 5.
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Reaching back a few weeks, we have the departure of Scott Forstall from Apple.
In corporate news, a feud between Apple executive Scott Forstall and other company executives came to a head.
He also reportedly fired a top executive, Scott Forstall, because he would not apologize for the ailing application.
The head of the project got canned later, but not before Scott Forstall got canned for refusing to apologise about Maps.
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The Maps mess has already cost the job of his former boss, Scott Forstall, who drove off from Cupertino last month.
In the demo today Scott Forstall asked Siri for a sushi restaurant.
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That person was probably Scott Forstall, who has already paid the price.
In Monday's WWDC Keynote, Apple's Scott Forstall said that the company would highlight transit apps from the App Store in its mapping product.
This week Apple announced that Scott Forstall, head of iOS software, and John Browett, the recently appointed head of retail, are both out.
Speculation has been rife about why Apple is showing iOS software chief Scott Forstall and John Browett, head of Retail, the door.
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The email reportedly dates back to January of 2011, and was sent to Scott Forstall, Tim Cook and Phil Schiller, according to The Next Web.
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They include Phil Schiller, global marketing chief, design lead Jonathan Ive and Scott Forstall, who oversees the iOS operating system for the iPhone and iPad.
And Jobs has increasingly been splitting stage time with Scott Forstall.
Scott Forstall left Stanford and went directly to work at NeXT.
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But, according to reporting in the New York Times, some employees at Apple, headquartered in Cupertino, are more jazzed about the firing of Scott Forstall.
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Apple iOS SVP Scott Forstall is said to push for skeuomorphic design, while industrial designer Jony Ive and other Apple higher-ups are said to oppose the direction.
The most obvious example is Apple, which last month got rid of Scott Forstall, boss of its iOS software division, and John Browett, who very briefly ran the retail operation.
In corporate news, Apple (AAPL) announced two major management changes John Browett, head of retail, and Scott Forstall, mobile software developer, will be leaving the company early next year.
Interface vice president Greg Christie, Ive has shared his reasoning behind his distaste for the texture-heavy (skeuomorphic) interfaces heralded by Apple co-founder Steve Jobs and former iOS chief Scott Forstall.
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So now Scott Forstall is gone and his job has really been divvied up between Jony Ive for Human Interface, Craig Federighi for Software, and Eddy Cue for Siri and Maps.
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Cupertino's Scott Forstall, for instance, took the stand on Friday to give some insights on the beginnings of what Apple called "Project Purple, " and the secrecy that surrounded the first iPhone's development.
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It was a little more than a month later when Scott Forstall, vice president in charge of iOS, was ousted from the company, reportedly, in part, for not wanting to apologize for Maps.
And it will be the first interview since he led a management shakeup in October that led to the ouster of longtime iOS software chief Scott Forstall over his handling of the much-maligned Maps app in iOS 6 for the iPhone and iPad.
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While most Street analysts who follow the stock see little to worry about in the departure of Scott Forstall and retail stores chief John Browett, others are feeling unsettled about signs that the Apple product machinery is showing some un-Apple like signs of instability.
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