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mbreese on Oct 29, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Scott Forstall leaves Apple

If he did get fired over maps, it wasn't because mapping is hard, or that the app didn't deliver.

It would be because he over promised and under delivered.

Sure, it was embarrassing to Apple to release a half-assed Maps app, but even more so to tout it just a few weeks earlier as being soooo good.

masklinn on Oct 30, 2012 | [–]

> It would be because he over promised and under delivered.

And alledgedly refused to own up to it.

VikingCoder on Oct 30, 2012 | [–]

Are you certain of that, or is it speculation?

Was he pushed to do Maps, and he told everyone it was going to be a nightmare, and then made the best of a bad situation?

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