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Given Forstall's prior recent record of failures and marginal successes with applications (an area Apple has struggled with ongoing, despite their relative excellence in hardware in general and OS usability in particular), it's rather a surprise he wasn't discharged earlier, many, including myself, would argue.

Further, any suggestion that Forstall is a "rough approximation" of Jobs simply because he's 'an asshole who seems successful [again, an odd argument given disappointments such as Siri and outright failures across the last few years] and we don't know how" is of no value unless we get deeper. A recent piece exposes that we, in fact, know a lot more about Jobs' success at Apple than he being merely some petulant, precocious, and enigmatic prima donna. Rather, he focused on weekly management meetings, on the business vision, and via recognizing "top 100" contributors, among other tactics, all of which speak to a very strong sense of how to run business fundamentals (something all too sadly lacking in many businesses today). Unless we can know more regarding Forstall's capabilities aside from being a brilliant asshole, it's useless speculation to fear a Jobs successor or Apple key innovator is lost. Perhaps, like Jobs, he'll need some time in the non-Apple wilderness, as Jobs was no Steve Jobs before his return to Apple.