Former Apple executive and iOS chief Scott Forstall will make a rare public appearance this week at Code.org's Code Break event. He will appear alongside Grammy Award winning rapper and songwriter Macklemore.
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Forstall was Apple's Vice President of iOS from 2007 until 2012
Described as the "world's largest live interactive classroom," Code Break aims to engage with computer science students during the ongoing stay-at-home measures, and features weekly computer science challenges for students of all abilities, even those without computers.
Forstall was reportedly ousted from Apple in October 2012, following the botched launch of Apple Maps. Forstall has maintained a quiet presence since then, although he did sit down with journalist John Markoff for an interview at the Computer History Museum in June 2017. Otherwise his main focus has been Broadway production.
I look forward to joining students around the world this week for a #CodeBreak. https://t.co/P5RhWAkrj8 — Scott Forstall (@forstall) May 18, 2020
Anyone interested can sign up at the Code.org website, which has more information about the event. The Code Break stream is live every Wednesday at 10.00 a.m. Pacific Time / 1.00 p.m. Eastern Time.
Update: The full video is now available to watch.
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At least it was creative. I still prefer it over the mess of UI inconsistency today. Each to their own though.Forstall's fetish for skeuomorphism went too far...
It was ****** TomTom data that was the issue, he was kicked for not publicly saying sorry. But like why should he? It wasn't his call to ditch Google Maps....Of what? Didn’t he singly almost destroy Apple Maps?
No. It was perfect.Forstall's fetish for skeuomorphism went too far...
I agree... The flat design is boring and less interesting. The skeuomorphism should have been toned down a bit but I think it was essentially a good thing and it made iOS special. I've never really taken to it since.At least it was creative. I still prefer it over the mess of UI inconsistency today. Each to their own though.
I wonder what iOS would have been like now if they had kept Scott in charge of UX and left Jony to do only hardware design. I bet it would have been a lot more interesting.
The flat design worked really well for Android because before Material Design that was basically a cluster**** of different design paradigms. It was simply better because it had a design direction at all :) But iOS before version 7 was more human and more engaging IMO.