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MacSurfer's Archive: Monday, October 29, 2012
 

 

Apple/Macintosh
  • "Apple Announces Changes to Increase Collaboration Across Hardware, Software & Services: Jony Ive, Bob Mansfield, Eddy Cue and Craig Federighi Add Responsibilities to Their Roles" ["Apple also announced that Scott Forstall will be leaving Apple next year and will serve as an advisor to CEO Tim Cook in the interim. ... Additionally, John Browett is leaving Apple. A search for a new head of Retail is underway and in the interim, the Retail team will report directly to Tim Cook."]  Apple 4:16 PM
  • "Inside Apple's major shakeup: What is really behind the biggest management shakeup at Apple since the Steve Jobs putsch that eliminated Gil Amelio in 1997?"  Fortune 6:29 PM
  • "Apple's Forstall leaving in shake-up: Federighi will take over iOS leadership; retail head Browett out" MarketWatch 6:28 PM
  • "In Shake-Up, Apple's Mobile Software and Retail Chiefs to Depart" New York Times [Free/Paid Registration Required] 8:01 PM
  • "Apple boss Tim Cook shows ruthless streak in firing senior staff: John Browett's departure will come as a relief to many Apple staff in their retail stores who hated the ideas the former Dixons boss tried to introduce, says Charles Arthur" The Guardian 9:12 PM
  • "Apple software, retail chiefs out in overhaul" Reuters 8:01 PM
  • "Apple ousts Scott Forstall, executive in charge of Maps and Siri" Los Angeles Times [Paid Membership Required] 6:28 PM
  • "Apple Says Forstall, Browett Leaving as Cook Revamps Management" Bloomberg 5:03 PM
  • "Tim Cook emails employees; thanks Scott Forstall, says Bob Mansfield to stay on for two years" 9 to 5 Mac 5:13 PM
  • "Bob Mansfield Returns to Apple for Two More Years" AllThingsD 6:54 PM
  • "Apple's Scott Forstall to leave company in 2013. Browett out as Cue, Ive, Fedherighi take on new roles" The Next Web 4:28 PM
  • "Apple's Tim Cook takes personal responsibility for Retail, flatters miffed store workers" The Next Web 6:28 PM
  • "Apple exec behind Maps and Siri to exit One Infinite Loop" The Register 6:52 PM
  • "Reports Claim Forstall And Browett Were Asked To Leave Apple Following Crucial Missteps" TechCrunch 9:29 PM
  • "Apple Announces Management Changes: Scott Forstall and John Browett Out, Ive and Others Add Responsibilities" MacRumors 4:28 PM
  • "Scott Forstall's leadership of iOS, Siri, Maps and user interface revoked" AppleInsider 7:51 PM
  • "Forstall, Browett to leave Apple; Mansfield takes on new Technologies group" Macworld 6:55 PM
  • "It's an iStorm: Scott Forstall Out at Apple, Along with Retail Head" AllThingsD 4:37 PM
  • "Apple Drops Top iOS, Retail Execs Forstall, Browett" PC Magazine 5:13 PM
  • "Apple reshuffles top brass: iOS chief to leave in 2013" CNET News 4:31 PM
  • "Apple iOS chief Forstall leaving in shakeup" Seattle Times 5:03 PM
  • "Apple's Retail Boss Is Out After Just 9 Months On The Job" Business Insider 4:31 PM
  • "Apple shakes up senior ranks" Financial Times [Paid Membership Required] 6:52 PM
  • "How America Won the Tablet Wars" ["The story is centered on Apple, whose new CEO, Tim Cook, failed with his 'new iPad' launch in March. ... Cook did two things to bring the value back: 1. He found a new source for the bright 'Retina' screen ... 2. Apple engineers also perfected a new assembly technique, borrowed from aerospace, enabling flat screens to be crisply attached to a flat bank of chips"]  TheStreet 7:31 AM
  • "As Google And Amazon Fight Up, Apple Refuses To Fight Down"  TechCrunch 7:53 AM
  • "Apple ran out of iPad minis -- all models -- in three days" Fortune 7:41 AM
  • "The iPhone and Apple's Margins" ["The iPhone is a profit monster, but when it launches there are many costs associated with it: components tend to be more expensive, there are more warranty returns, there are higher shipping costs are units are shipped in smaller lots to more points of sale."] asymco 8:02 AM
  • "Office Will Determine Whether Microsoft Can Beat Apple: Earlier this year, I returned to Apple's Mac after too many years as a Windows guy. Then a strange thing happened. There was a technical problem with the download. While waiting to hear back from customer service, I used Apple's Pages word processing program." ["My solid experience with Pages prompted me to get a refund on my Office order."]  TheStreet 8:18 AM
  • "Pride: Apple's biggest weakness gives Amazon Kindle easy fire in the iPad mini war" Computerworld 8:47 AM
  • "Apple stores batten down their hatches for Sandy: Like many East Coast retailers, both tech and non-tech, Apple is bracing for the 'storm of the century' by closing protecting its stores." CNET News 8:47 AM
  • "East Coast Stores Prepare for Hurricane Sandy" ["At least 35 stores are within the landfall prediction zone defined by the National Weather Service, and another 15 stores are just outside the zone, particularly New York City and the region north."] ifoAppleStore 9:41 AM
  • "Hurricane Sandy: Apple closes up to 50 stores, Google cancels Nexus media event, crisis maps" iDownload Blog 10:42 AM
  • "New Shenzhen Apple Store To Open This Saturday!" M.I.C. Gadget 7:39 AM
  • "Apple to open retail store in Shenzhen, China on November 3rd" The Next Web 7:30 AM
  • "Apple to open yet another retail store in China: The company's store will open at 9 a.m. local time on Saturday in the Nanshan district of Shenzhen." CNET News 9:56 AM