Re:Apple’s 2016 in review
by illumin8 on Tuesday January 03, 2017 @01:15PM
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Yes, but Forstall was responsible for skeumorphism across all of iOS, so I'm not certain he really was as visionary as Jobs.
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To be fair Jobs seemed to be a big fan of skeumorphism too - the leather stitching on the Calendar.app was supposedly modelled on Jobs's Learjet so it can't all be attributed to Forstall.
Re:Apple’s 2016 in review
by Apocryphon on Tuesday January 03, 2017 @03:04PM
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Not to mention, the Maps fiasco happened under his watch.
Whilst this was a big blunder, the Apple Maps project was an absolutely enormous undertaking. The Google Maps app itself had an almost 10 years head start, beginning life in 2003 at a startup which Google purchased. I think it's impressive what Apple managed to put out even though it fell far short of Google's work.