When Jobs leaves Apple who will replace him as CEO?
Scott Forstall.
Jobs brought Scoot with him from NeXT in 1997 and since then Scott has been at the centre of Mac OS X’s development. Three days before WWDC 2008 Scott was promoted to Senior VP of iPhone Software, a position which answers directly to Jobs. Scott Forstall also shares Steve Jobs’ evil grin.
Steve and Scott seem close. Father and son close. Scott Forrstall is definitely being groomed to be CEO. When he is addressing an audiencehe he even reminds me of Jobs.
Going back some years when Jobs dropped out of Reed College after only one semester he continued to attend classes, including one in calligraphy. Forstall studied Symbolic Systems at Stanford, a study used in the field of anthropology and sociology to refer to a system of interconnected symbolic meanings. Sounds a little like calligraphy to me.
So maybe the two have a spiritual connection. Perhaps one day we’ll also find out that Forstall too has experimented with LSD. Since Jobs said of his own experiments that they were “one of the two or three most important things he has done in his life” and also stated that people around him who did not share his countercultural roots could not understand certain aspects of his thinking, I certainly hope for Forstall’s sake he has experimented with LSD. If he hasn’t he may not get the job after all.
- Johnny Appleseed
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