Senior vice president of iPhone software resigns, de facto resignation due to map problems

ByJeff Kubina

Apple has announced internal reorganization of the company, it was announced that Scott Forstall senior vice president who was in charge of iPhone software resigned. He will leave Apple next year.Map problem on iPhone 5 / iOS 6It is considered to be a replacement by. In addition, John Browett, senior vice president for retailing, who was a report to Tim Cook, has also announced that he will leave.

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According to the release, Apple changed business management to promote hardware, software and services on a global scale, and four senior deputies of Jony Ive, Bob Mansfield, Eddy Cue, and Craig Federighi He said he will expand the authority of the president.

Senior Vice President Forstor, who has been in charge of iPhone software, retires next year and is appointed advisor to CEO Tim Cook. Also, Browett senior vice president who was in charge of retailing will also leave the company. Reporting to CEO Cook was done by Senior Vice President Browett, but for the foreseeable future, the senior vice president in charge of retail will not be placed and the retail team will report directly to Cook CEO.

From the contents of the release, Mr. Forstor and Mr. Browett are still enrolled in Apple, but the position seems to have already left off, and names and pictures are deleted from the management team's page.

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Individual pages still remain.

Apple - Press Info - Apple Leadership - Scott Forstall
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As a leader in the iPhone software, Mr. Forstorle has been dealing with the heart part of Apple's innovative products, including user interfaces, applications, frameworks, and operating systems. I came from NeXT who Steve Jobs made when I was leaving Apple and joined Apple in 1997. I am also involved in designing Mac OS X and the Aqua interface.

According to the contents reported by the Wall Street Journal as a story of stakeholders, Mr. Foostole boasted that he was close cooperating with Mr. Jobs and was confrontational with other executives, and it seems that relationships did not go well without Mr. Jobs' arbitration. A nearby person has leaked that "Judges" ceased to exist after Mr. Jobs passed away, and the iOS team was e - mailing team members that they were not working well in mobile software 's big plan.

It was the release of iPhone 5 that conflicts between Mr. Forstor and other executives came to the limit. Forstol and his team had been working for years to dismiss Google Maps from the iPhone, but the results areTim Cook's bad thing to apologizeAt that time, Mr. Forstor added "There was a problem with the antenna of iPhone 4Since it survived without apologizing, there is no need for an apology again this time, "conflicting with Cook CEOs. At this time, it seems that it was decided that Mr. Fostor did not sign the apology message, but instead signed by Cook CEO.

Mr. Forstorle, who was once said to be a leading successor to Mr. Jobs, had earned fame earlier for promotion even inside the company, but it is said that it is a type not suitable for working together, and stakeholders According to "It is a person not familiar with Apple's internal culture".

Apple - Press Info - Apple Leadership - John Browett
http://www.apple.com/pr/bios/john-browett.html


Mr. Browett who also resigned is also a consultant at the Boston Consulting Group. He then served as CEO of Tesco of the supermarket chain, and since 2007 he has served as CEO of UK appliance retail giant Dixons, and since April 2012 he moved to Apple. We have been responsible for retail strategies and expansion of retail stores around the world in Apple.

Cook CEO praised Mr. Browett's expertise on customer service expertise, but it is subject to criticism of the introduction of new methods such as severely cutting the working hours of employees, and from the beginning Apple I was commented that it was a person who did not fit.

Mr. Forstor and Mr. Browett himself have not been announced.