Siri Co-Founder Quits Apple

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/10/24/siri-co-founder-quits-apple/

by Urgo • 15 years ago

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jordhy• 15 years ago

This looks like Microsoft all over again. Wait for similar news every couple of months. Key-person attrition is gonna be thru the roof at Apple.

sjwright• 15 years ago

The CEO of a purchased company is often a redundant position.

robjohnson• 15 years ago

Yeah. This doesn't seem like startling news.

josefresco• 15 years ago

A regular CEO is quite a bit different than a co-founder CEO.

danilocampos• 15 years ago

This is almost exactly 18 months after the acquisition. Guy probably finished his earn out and is moving on. Nothing surprising for an acquired CEO.

recoiledsnake• 15 years ago

I think Yahoo leads in botched acquisitions.

wanorris• 15 years ago

Your comment seems a bit trite and overly dismissive, which is why it has been downvoted into oblivion, but there is a possible grain of truth there to watch out for.

It has been rumored for a while that Scott Forstall, head of iOS, is extremely difficult to work with, and has been the reason for a number of people leaving Apple. I can't even begin to guess whether this is true or not -- I don't have any way of knowing. But this may actually be something to watch for over the next couple of years.

hkmurakami3• 15 years ago

Well, even Google (with its great working environment) has issues keeping personnel from acquisitions.

ashleyw2• 15 years ago

Some people just don't like working for others, even if it's Apple. And that's amplified when you've got millions of dollars in the bank and have no need for a pay cheque to pay the bills.

Do you think Steve Jobs would have stuck with Apple after it acquired NeXT, if he wasn't CEO? I highly doubt he would, he would have moved on as soon as his contract ended.

PakG1• 15 years ago

But he didn't become CEO. He stayed on as a consultant. NeXT was acquired in 1996. Jobs became interim CEO a year later. He didn't become permanent CEO until 2000.

edit: I highly doubt he would, he would have moved on as soon as his contract ended. Reading this latter sentence, perhaps you didn't mean that he was CEO right away. But I'm not sure. :)

ashleyw2• 15 years ago

Yeah, I'm assuming he was in a contract which kept him around long enough for him to be made interim CEO. From there, I'm sure he was confident he'd secure the permanent role before long.

hkmurakami3• 15 years ago

Or, one could argue that this is the length of time it took him to kick out Amelio and get himself back in the top spot.

If in a hypothetical world where Jobs couldn't get himself back into the CEO spot, then perhaps he would not have stayed on for an extended period of time.

Of course, this is all pure speculation

codeup• 15 years ago

Fox News? Here's the original source: http://allthingsd.com/20111023/exclusive-siri-co-founder-kit...

plainOldText• 15 years ago

I'm just curious. What's wrong with Fox News?

lolabloladd32• 15 years ago

Fox News is for partisan people who are more interested in how terrible Obama is than actual News.

potatolicious• 15 years ago

It's widely claimed (and IMO, correctly pointed out) that Fox News lacks journalistic integrity and is highly partisan, sometimes resorting to outright falsities to further an agenda.

Generally speaking, we prefer our news sources to be more objective, or if subjective, make their subjectivity more honest (i.e., by not painting it as an objective news program).

espeed• 15 years ago

Fox News sensationalizes news for the sake of the story. This boosts ratings because it seems we are wired with a proclivity for stories, but when storytelling and ratings are your goals, something else has to give -- in this case, it's often objectivity.

badusername• 15 years ago

Nothing wrong with this reporting.

toddmorey2• 15 years ago

True, but I always like to see a link to the original source if its obtainable.

unreal37• 15 years ago

Co-Founder: "Siri, should I quit Apple?"

Siri: Redirects user to his broker's web site showing his millions of dollars in AAPL shares...

physcab• 15 years ago

I would quit too. I love Apple products but they come at a huge human cost. One of my best friends works there and he's always extremely stressed out. He works like 15 hour days, 6 days a week. He's constantly bailing on his obligations because Apple decides to run a conference call at a ridiculous hour of the night, or right before we go into a theater to watch a movie. Nevermind the China trips that get dragged out for weeks. I've heard from him on several occasions that there are few people who have worked at Apple longer than a few years because of the burnout.

krobertson• 15 years ago

May depend on which role or which products. I had a friend who did tech support at Apple for 10+ years and loved it, and another friend who works as a web dev and loves it as well.

I don't think either of my friends were in roles that had to fear Apple's goon squad... imagine things are different if you work on something iPhone/iPad/iOS related.

hkmurakami3• 15 years ago

I've heard that the hardware design guys have it pretty rough, while the software side has it (relatively) easy.

Siri Co-Founder Quits Apple

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