Comments on: Analysts: Apple’s executive shakeup a consolidation, not cause for concern

By: MacFreek

MacFreek — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 14:41:33 +0000

Who’s “concerned”? Man, I am rejoicing.

By: auramac

auramac — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 06:59:09 +0000

x marks the spot. You know- the thing you either throw out or put in the washing machine.

By: auramac

auramac — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 06:55:55 +0000

Let the designer be the designer and the sales person be the sales person.

By: Apple

Apple — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 01:34:35 +0000

They were all cooked…..

By: Paul

Paul — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 21:02:11 +0000

Grab that pitchfork and torch. Tie Scott up and dunk him in the river….if he floats we burn him, if he sinks…..our mistake…oops.

Thats what you people sound like.

By: Paul

Paul — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 20:49:24 +0000

Zulfuki is an Apple hater. He naively thinks that Apple now listens to every word spoken on MDN message boards since so much said here in the past has come true. So he is trying to goad you and I to start supporting BS like his last statement..

By: Paul

Paul — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 20:41:16 +0000

Agreed!

Hope to god we are not seeing the Microsoftization of Apple.

By: MacHeadB

MacHeadB — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 19:54:31 +0000

Tim Cook is not a marketing guy he is an engineer as well.

By: DogGonetoo

DogGonetoo — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 19:45:15 +0000

That’s like saying woz should have been CEO in the early days of apple.
Ive is an engineer not a businessman. Cook is.

By: Buster

Buster — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 19:17:56 +0000

Tim’s got balls. That is what you want from a CEO. Let Jony Ive be the creator, this is what he does.

By: Petey

Petey — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 19:02:57 +0000

The big issue that could happen is that Scott would leave and take some great people with him.

I’ve seen this happen before when someone at a high level leaves a large company.

He probably won’t do this, but you never know.

The down side of high level business. If apple keeps him on as an advisor to Tim (which seems odd to me to be hinest as Tim shouldn’t really know the ins and out of software) then that gives him opportunity to take some good people with him.

If he isn’t kept on then chances are he will be working at one of apples competitors within 6 months if that’s what he wants of course.

I suspect he will want to setup his own software company, he has the money and the access to some amazing talent

Well see in 2013 if this senario plays out.

By: Producer James

Producer James — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 18:49:08 +0000

I do think Mr. Forstall should start his own company. If he has a passion for technology then maybe he should do what Mr. Jobs did after being fired from Apple. Mr. Forstall may not have the public persona of Steve Jobs but he got the smarts to further technology.

By: kingmel

kingmel — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 18:48:53 +0000

Munster is right. Ive is far more important to the design soul of Apple. But that does not mean that Ive should be CEO. It would not be a good fit. Cook just put Ive in the perfect spot to exercise his genius, and I think that Ive will now be very happy to stay with Apple long term. That, along with the delay of Mansfield’s retirement, are the two best aspects of this recent management shakeup at Apple.

By: DRMSSDB

DRMSSDB — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 18:45:41 +0000

I think Cook is a great CEO for Apple, partly because he was a great COO. He does not have to be the product genius that Jobs was to be right for the job. As long as he gives Ive enough power, and part of this consolidation is about doing that and getting rid of those in their way, there is no reason Cook should cannot be a great CEO for Apple. No single person could replace the many things Jobs added to Apple, so they are not going to have a CEO that would not be missing something Jobs had.

By: winchester

winchester — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 18:42:13 +0000

So Forstall is a bit of a rebel in his thinking and a round peg in a square hole in his dealing with others, so what? It’s people like him from whom most radical ideas and products come. Jobs was right in recognizing his unique skills and talents and protected and nurtured him to allow him to maximize his contributions. That’s a mark of great leadership and foresight that Cook the apologist can never master.

It’s utterly shameful that Cook allows such vicious character assassination of Forstall to go on unabated in the media based on nothing but tidbits of rumor and innuendo. Hey Cook, you don’t kick a man when he’s down, let alone a valuable, distinguished contributor to the company’s success. You miserably failed in letting Forstall go the same way you hired Browett.

By: althegeo

althegeo — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 18:33:05 +0000

If all that is true, Apple is turning into Microsoft right before our eyes.

Nooooooooooo!!

By: Charles

Charles — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 18:21:05 +0000

Yep. Ditto.

By: correctu

correctu — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 18:20:34 +0000

1) What you say isn’t set in stone.
2) You’re like that one TV show where scientists fabricate planets and possible creatures that could be on them. It’s stupid.

By: AshvlEd

AshvlEd — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 18:00:36 +0000

If I had to guess, an “x” is probably how you sign documents.

By: Thelonious Mac

Thelonious Mac — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 17:53:26 +0000

When I read between the lines on the Forstall thing, I sense power grabbers vs. the engineer. Been there too many times. When I read that he refused to sign an apology for Maps, I think, good for him. Maps has some issues, but it’s not broken, just immature. I wonder who really was responsible for pushing out the door, and if the issues could only be resolved after it’s out there. No matter what, it’s a fine program that, (as most people here have said) will get better over time. I suspect that:

1. Forstall said it wasn’t ready
2. He won’t sign the stupid apology because he shouldn’t have to, there’s nothing for him to apologize for, and the people trying to make him apologize are the people more responsible for it being served up to early.

When an organization reaches the level of success that Apple has, all they can do for a while is produce upgraded versions of what brought them success. Nonetheless, the pressure to grow, grow, grow is on and the only people who can produce growth at this point are marketing people. So the marketing people take over, shove the engineering folks out the door, and the company forgets what got it to where it is to begin with.

By: Jim

Jim — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 17:52:49 +0000

Like it did when Avie Tevanian left? Or Bertrand Serlet after him?

And did you watch the iPad mini intro? Both Avie and Bertrand were in the audience. That’s *mighty* interesting.

By: breeze

breeze — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 17:46:45 +0000

Promise that you’ll dissapear after our president again wins by a landslide?

By: DanoX

DanoX — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 17:29:53 +0000

Ive better talk to Elton john and get over that shyness, step up right!!

By: x

Tue, 30 Oct 2012 17:28:05 +0000

The only thing that matters is that we dump that idiot moron Hussein in one week. The dumbest fool since Jimmy Carter, and it is now obvious he will get crushed in the election.

By: MacRaven

MacRaven — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 17:10:43 +0000

If Ive was good at the stage show or wanted to be up there at Keynotes I’m sure he’d have been trotted out there by now. Some people just don’t like public speaking or aren’t good at it. I miss watching Steve just loving every minute on that stage, just getting a kick out of everything he was planning to show us.

By: Chaz

Chaz — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 17:01:10 +0000

TC was never CFO. He was COO. You only have a CEO and COO when you have defined a succession plan and the decision on the CEO is made before the current CEO leaves.

By: lawrence

lawrence — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 16:55:16 +0000

I think Time Cook did the right thing considering all the reports I’ve seen about those two men. Finally a company that holds executives responsible for doing their duties and and holds them to doing them well, not just getting by…

By: darknite

darknite — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 16:53:24 +0000

Mr. Ive is notoriously shy in front of crowds, and who knows how good his Public Host Playing” face is…… Not to mention his negotiating skills.

CEO duties would detract from his strengths and major role as a designer. Just leave him alone and let him do what he is meant to do. First Best Destiny as it were. Lets NOT Peter Principle him into a CEO role.

By: Hg Wells

Hg Wells — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 16:52:17 +0000

What do you know that we don’t? The consensus seems to be that it is an opportune time for Scott to enjoy the fruits of his past work – and do it at home. He has been around a long time and some are disappointed that it wasn’t working. But if changes needed to be made, then they should be. What do you know?

By: twilightmoon

twilightmoon — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 16:50:08 +0000

Yeah like all the products were flops, and the stock price has plummeted!

Oh wait… You were saying something?

By: KarlV

KarlV — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 16:42:23 +0000

It sure is bad. Scott is a great man.
I think this spells trouble.

By: Zulkifli

Zulkifli — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 16:40:24 +0000

Johnny IVE should be the next CEO.
Let Tim Cook be the CFO again..

Too many thing have happen under COOK, in the end COOK is responsible.

By: 24january1984

24january1984 — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 16:40:07 +0000

I cleaned out my storage room last weekend. Felt good.

By: KarlV

KarlV — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 16:40:04 +0000

It sure