Amaya Toman If you've ever owned an older Mac, iPod, iPhone, or iPad, chances are one of the people discussed in this article was involved. In the photo below you can see, for example, Eddy Cue, Jony Ive, Phil Schiller and others who were members of Apple's top management at the time of the release of the first iPhone in 2007 or the iPad in 2010. Where are these people today?
Phil Schiller
Phil Schiller continues to work at Apple, in the position of senior vice president of worldwide marketing. He has been with the company since the return of Steve Jobs in 1997 and, among other things, he also participated in the presentation of some iPhone models. It is Schiller who is credited with the idea of the click wheel in iPods. Schiller also played an important role in the marketing of products such as the iMac or the iTunes service.
Tony Fadell
Tony Fadell left Apple in late 2008, reportedly for personal reasons. That was just two years after he replaced Jon Rubinstein as senior vice president of the iPod division. In the late 2001s, he wanted to start his own company called Fuse, but ultimately failed due to financial reasons. In XNUMX, he helped design the iPod at Apple, was named senior director of iPod and special projects in April of the same year, and helped create iTunes. After his departure from Apple, he came up with a business plan for Nest Labs, which he founded with his former colleague Matt Rogers. Fadell ran Nest for six years before moving to investment firm Future Shape.
Jony Ive
Jony Ive worked at Apple until June of this year, when he announced his departure to start his own company. He officially started working at Apple in 1992, four years later he was promoted to the head of the company's design department. After Steve Jobs returned to the company in 1997, he quickly became close to the old director of Apple and intensively discussed the design of all products with him. A number of iconic devices such as the iMac, iPod, iPhone and iPad bear Ive's design signature. In 2015, Ive received the title of chief designer, but his active work at Apple slowly lost its intensity.
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Scott Forstall
Even Scott Forstall no longer works at Apple. He left the company in 2013, relatively not long after the infamous debut of Apple Maps in iOS 6. Forstall first met Jobs in 1992 when they both worked for NeXT Computer. Five years later, both moved to Apple, where Forstall was tasked with designing the user interface for the Mac. But he helped create the Safari browser and contributed to the iPhone SDK. The scope of Forstall's influence gradually grew, and many believed that he would one day replace Jobs at the head of the company. A year after Jobs' death, however, there was a complication in the form of the Apple Maps application, which had significant bugs. The scandal resulted in Forstall's departure in 2013, and his duties were broken down by colleagues Jony Ive, Craig Federighi, Edddy Cue and Craig Mansfield. Since his departure from Apple, Forstall has not appeared in public much. In 2015, he was rumored to be co-producing a Broadway musical, reportedly working as a consultant for Snap.
Eddy Cue
Eddy Cue still works at Apple today, as Senior Vice President of Internet Software and Services. He joined the company in 1989, when he headed the software engineering department and led the customer support team. Over the years, Cue participated in the creation and operation of the Apple online e-shop, the App Store, the iTunes Store, and also participated in the creation of applications such as iBooks (now Apple Books), iMovie and others. He is also credited with the former resuscitation of iCloud. Currently, Cue oversees the operation of services such as Apple Music, Apple Maps, Apple Pay, iCloud and the iTunes Store.
Steve Jobs
Even Steve Jobs cannot be missing from the picture. He also participated in the design of a number of Apple products, but he also has a lot to do with where Apple gradually got to after his return in 1997. Jobs is remembered for his stubbornness, determination, ability to sell, but also, for example, for his unmistakable speeches (not only) at Apple conferences. He had to leave the company in 1985, but returned in 1997, when he successfully saved Apple from impending bankruptcy. Under his leadership, a number of iconic products were created in the new era of Apple, such as the iPod, iPhone, iPad, MacBook Air and the iTunes service. After Jobs' death, Tim Cook became the head of Apple.
Source: Business Insider
