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Washington, US
Education
Stanford University (B.S., M.S.)
Known for
Former SVP at Apple Inc.
Scott James Forstall (born 28 August 1969) is an American software engineer, known for leading the original software development team for the iPhone and iPad. He is also a Broadway producer known for co-producing the Tony award-winning Fun Home and Eclipsed with Molly Forstall, his wife, among others. Having spent his career first at NeXT and then Apple, he was the senior vice president (SVP) of iOS Software at Apple Inc. from 2007 until October 2012.
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Scott James Forstall (born 28 August 1969) is an American software engineer, known for leading the original software development team for the iPhone and...
29, 2012, Cook made major changes to the company's executive team. ScottForstall resigned as senior vice president of iOS after the poorly received launch...
issues prompted an open letter of apology from Apple CEO Tim Cook. ScottForstall, who had overseen iOS development since its inception, announced his...
a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society. His contemporaries included ScottForstall, Reid Hoffman, and Marissa Mayer. Ly went on to earn a Master of Science...
and iPod teams, led by ScottForstall and Tony Fadell, respectively, against each other in an internal competition, with Forstall winning by creating iPhone...
Another engineer, Henri Lamiraux, became the new head of the project with ScottForstall, to develop the iPhone software. Initially, the iPhone started from...
designs in various applications. This changed after Jobs' death when ScottForstall, described as "the most vocal and high-ranking proponent of the visual...
Linux-based version, commonly referred to as Acorn, while another team led by ScottForstall worked on developing a more compressed and streamlined version of Mac...
an original stated release for that September; however, as stated by ScottForstall at the iOS 3.0 preview event on March 17, 2009, the rollout was delayed...
company due to the problems associated with Apple Maps. The departure of ScottForstall, senior vice president of iOS, was announced in October 2012. Sources...
the first game demoed on the Apple iPad on stage January 27, 2010 by ScottForstall. Daggett, Laurel (April 12, 2013). "Anniversary of the day the X Games...
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including location sharing and message effects. iMessage was announced by ScottForstall at the WWDC 2011 keynote on June 6, 2011. A version of the Messages...
000 employees led by hardware engineer Tony Fadell, software engineer ScottForstall, and design officer Jony Ive, to work on the highly confidential "Project...
former CEO Tim Cook, CEO Jonathan Ive, senior vice president of design ScottForstall, former senior vice president of iOS software Apple Inc. Macintosh iOS...
John Browett Guerrino De Luca Paul Deneve Al Eisenstat Tony Fadell ScottForstall Ellen Hancock Nancy R. Heinen Ron Johnson David Nagel Peter Oppenheimer...
John Browett Guerrino De Luca Paul Deneve Al Eisenstat Tony Fadell ScottForstall Ellen Hancock Nancy R. Heinen Ron Johnson David Nagel Peter Oppenheimer...
mobile app stores. In 2021, former Apple head of software engineering ScottForstall said in a taped deposition in the Epic Games v. Apple lawsuit that Apple...
year prior. That year, Apple removed the head of OS X development, ScottForstall, and design was changed towards a more minimal direction. Apple's new...
renamed Microsoft Graph. WordArt is a text-styling utility, created by ScottForstall and Nat Brown (later Apple employees) while interning for Microsoft...
2009): While demonstrating cut and paste features on the iPhone 3G, ScottForstall is seen creating an email which shows the times of a flight he has booked...
some fun too." The game was featured by Apple senior vice president ScottForstall as a "mind controllingly addictive game" at Apple's 2011 Worldwide Developer's...
John Browett Guerrino De Luca Paul Deneve Al Eisenstat Tony Fadell ScottForstall Ellen Hancock Nancy R. Heinen Ron Johnson David Nagel Peter Oppenheimer...
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