“He’s young (43). Comfortable on stage (played Sweeney Todd in high school). Has serious nerd credentials (Stanford, NeXT). Shares Steve Jobs’ obsession with detail (keeps a jeweler’s loupe in his office to check every pixel on every icon). And the division he heads — mobile software — drives nearly 70% of Apple’s income,” ,” Philip Elmer-DeWitt reports for Fortune. “‘He’s a sharp, down-to-earth, and talented engineer, and a more-than-decent presenter,’ one entrepreneur told Adam Lashinsky. ‘He’s the total package.'”
“According to Lashinsky’s new book Inside Apple: How America’s Most Admired–and Secretive–Company Really Works, senior vice president Scott Forstall stands out among the rest of Apple’s executive team as the most likely to succeed Steve Jobs once the Tim Cook era is over,” P.E.D. reports. “If… ‘If there’s a knock on Forstall,’ writes Lashinsky, ‘it’s that he wears his ambition in plainer view than the typical Apple executive. He blatantly accumulated influence in recent years, including, it is whispered, when Jobs was on medical leave.'”
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