Scott Forstall will speak next week at the Computer History Museum about the creation of the original iPhone
Scott Forstall, Apple’s former lead software engineer is set to speak out about the creation of the original iPhone at the Computer History Museum next Tuesday almost five years after he was fired from the company after the enormous failure of Apple Maps in late 2012.
Since his departure from Apple Scott has been keeping a low profile, with the former Apple executive resurfacing in 2015 following the Sony hack which pointed out he had been quietly advising on the board of directors at Snapchat. Scheduled to be interviewed by historian John Markoff as part of “An Evening with Original iPhone Innovators & Engineers”, Scott will be joined by other former iOS engineers including Nitin Ganatra, Scott Herz, and Hugo Fiennes.
As reported by MacRumours, the two-part event is part of the Computer History Museum’s ongoing “iPhone 360” project that explores the story of the iPhone, from its prehistory, inception, and launch, to its evolution and impact.
During 2006, the year before the iPhone was introduced, it seemed that innovation in mobile devices was beginning to slip away from Silicon Valley. Wireless computing was advancing more quickly in Europe than it was in the United States. That all changed abruptly when Steve Jobs stepped onstage at Moscone Center in San Francisco and asserted he was introducing “three revolutionary products” in one package—the iPhone. – How did iPhone come to be? On June 20, four members of the original development team will discuss the secret Apple project, which in the past decade has remade the computer industry, changed the business landscape, and become a tool in the hands of more than a billion people around the world.