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Apple's Heads Of Retail, iOS Leaving Firm
If Apple needed the best possible cover to announce that both mini-Steve Jobs and its head of retail strategy are leaving the firm, it got it courtesy of Frankenstorm and a market that will be closed for at least another 24 hours. We are looking forward to the analyst spin on this. As the head of the firm's iOS development (Scott Forstall) and the head of the firm's retail division (John Browett - a 5-month veteran!) have left the firm. Full bullish statement on the bright future of the company below but one can't help but feel like the guy responsible for the Maps fiasco just got thrown under the bus; and if the stores are doing so well, why is the head of retail out on his ear? Apple was already trading down around 0.65% in European trading this morning pre-announcement- this surely cannot help.
- *APPLE SVP IN CHARGE OF IOS SOFTWARE FORSTALL TO LEAVE COMPANY
- *APPLE'S HEAD OF RETAIL JOHN BROWETT LEAVING COMPANY :AAPL US
- *APPLE SAYS CUE TO TAKE ON ADDED RESPONS. OF SIRI AND MAPS
- *APPLE SAYS FORSTALL TO ADVISE CEO TIM COOK IN INTERIM :AAPL US
Apple Announces Changes to Increase Collaboration Across Hardware, Software & Services
Jony Ive, Bob Mansfield, Eddy Cue and Craig Federighi Add Responsibilities to Their Roles
Business Wire
CUPERTINO, Calif. -- October 29, 2012
Apple® today announced executive management changes that will encourage even more collaboration between the Company’s world-class hardware, software and services teams. As part of these changes, Jony Ive, Bob Mansfield, Eddy Cue and Craig Federighi will add more responsibilities to their roles. Apple also announced that Scott Forstall will be leaving Apple next year and will serve as an advisor to CEO Tim Cook in the interim.
“We are in one of the most prolific periods of innovation and new products in Apple’s history,” said Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO. “The amazing products that we’ve introduced in September and October, iPhone 5, iOS 6, iPad mini, iPad, iMac, MacBook Pro, iPod touch, iPod nano and many of our applications, could only have been created at Apple and are the direct result of our relentless focus on tightly integrating world-class hardware, software and services.”
Jony Ive will provide leadership and direction for Human Interface (HI) across the company in addition to his role as the leader of Industrial Design. His incredible design aesthetic has been the driving force behind the look and feel of Apple’s products for more than a decade.
Eddy Cue will take on the additional responsibility of Siri® and Maps, placing all of our online services in one group. This organization has overseen major successes such as the iTunes Store®, the App Store?, the iBookstore? and iCloud®. This group has an excellent track record of building and strengthening Apple’s online services to meet and exceed the high expectations of our customers.
Craig Federighi will lead both iOS and OS X®. Apple has the most advanced mobile and desktop operating systems, and this move brings together the OS teams to make it even easier to deliver the best technology and user experience innovations to both platforms.
Bob Mansfield will lead a new group, Technologies, which combines all of Apple’s wireless teams across the company in one organization, fostering innovation in this area at an even higher level. This organization will also include the semiconductor teams, who have ambitious plans for the future.
Additionally, John Browett is leaving Apple. A search for a new head of Retail is underway and in the interim, the Retail team will report directly to Tim Cook. Apple’s Retail organization has an incredibly strong network of leaders at the store and regional level who will continue the excellent work that has been done over the past decade to revolutionize retailing with unique, innovative services for customers.
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Rats leaving a sinking ship?
Leaving shore actually.
Their real estate agents only know where...all their homes are up for sale.
Macbook air sucks.
Hurricane Cook > Sandy
Apple just jacked up their prices too.
Perfect cover for bad news and other shenanigans. Never let a good crisis go to waste.
My wife bought a Huawei Chinese spy phone off the prepaid rack at Wal-Mart over the weekend, passing up an iPhone or iPad, even though we own an iMac, an Apple TV and an iPod. Once Apple got news of this, they had to reorganize the corporation.
The new i-phones are crap. Chunky junk design.
Beancounter government issue Obamaphones.
The first ones had a cool design attitude.
Jobs died so did apple.
Apple will go the way of Jim Henson's muppets.
Their eyes are about to get ripped off!
Google will take the lead soon.
They're thinking different.
I thought that extra row of icons was supposed to keep Apple ahead of the pack.
Google debuted the Nexus 10 today. It has a 2560x1600 resolution, higher than the iPad.
http://www.engadget.com/2012/10/29/nexus-10-vs-the-competition-fight/
Who cares, it's just another tablet. There are a million noname $100 android tablets which will let you watch TV just as well as the iPad or Nexus.
Google also announced a Nexus 32GB tablet with 3G wireless connectivity:
http://www.engadget.com/2012/10/29/google-announces-299-32gb-nexus-7-with-hspa-mobile-data/
It's close to $200 cheaper than an Apple iPad mini.
This is what you call a 'compelling offer.'
Really? How much cheaper is it if I make do with what I already have?
How much cheaper is it if iDont bother with any of that eCrap in my simple life?
How many calories is that?
iResign?
As Apple goes so goes the world economy and future of civilization ...
See you in hell bitchez! Bwahahaha ...
It will not be the first or the last Apple to fall from the Tree. I hope that it will "hit" a person ( or people ) with ranks equal to Newton or even Tesla, to save us from the pending oil crash, although, I personally, highly doubt that.
Well along the same IT line,wait till IE 8 falls flat on it's Kiester........from JU TUBE vids, rumors, and anecdotes it's a real POS.
MicroSoft may be in a tailspin.
Since when has any NEW software prog from those money grubbers sold for UNDER a C Note?.
I think you mean Windows 8? I don't use Internet Explorer 8, but it's been around a few years and hasn't exactly fallen flat...
I think you mean Windows 8?
Yes sir, thank you,Win 8.
IE 8, is better than 9 (IMHO)....................seems like before they ever get the bugs out of one, they intro a new one.
Microsoft has been flat since XP. For them, it is just business as usual.
Don't tell me, he's being replaced by Siri.
It's called take the money and run.
If you haven't figured it out already, it's what we're all doing.
I read a bio on Jobs. Man did Forstall come off looking bad. From the Bio I surmised he seemed to be the kind of ass kisser that everyone whoever worked in any size organization despises. He tried, and succeeded in getting as much corporate power as he could, giving the impression, real or imagined, that "he had SJ's ear" and that he could stop any project cold. I was wondering how long he was going to last once that garbage Map application came out. That was directly under his area of responsibility. I imagine a enraged reality distortion field in the form of lightning came down from the heavens and struck that motherfucker dead.
I can't imagine many at Apple mourning his departure.
"and if the stores are doing so well, why is the head of retail out on his ear? "
you make it sound like John Browett had been running the stores for awhile. He's relatively new (took over when Ron Johnson left) and was trying to squeeze all the profit out of the stores as he could. As a result some staff, which are already paid near minimum wage, were being laid off and customer experience was apparently going down.
Also Forstall is the guy who kept pushing fake leather in iCal, faked ripped pages in Notes, and all sorts of dumb skuemorphism aesthetics in iOS. Customers should be happy Ive is taking over Human Interface Design.
Cahsing in his chips from the WS Casino. Hard to just let those paper profts evaporate.
Apple has had a few things to offer that were impressive in the last few years, but the iPhone4 & iPhone 5 are certainly NOT amongst them. Help for many other firm like retrieve deleted files