{"id":63430,"date":"2012-10-30T12:07:19","date_gmt":"2012-10-30T10:07:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=63430"},"modified":"2012-10-31T14:27:55","modified_gmt":"2012-10-31T12:27:55","slug":"apple-maps-exec-booted-over-apology-letter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/63430-apple-maps-exec-booted-over-apology-letter.html","title":{"rendered":"Apple Maps exec booted over apology letter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><\/em><\/strong>Apple\u2019s <a title=\"Scott Forstall\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/340667-Scott-Forstall\">Scott Forstall<\/a>, Senior Vice President of <a title=\"iOS\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/464665-iOS\">iOS<\/a>, is <a href=\"mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/63416-apple-software-retail-execs-leaving.html\" target=\"_blank\">slated to leave Apple in the near future<\/a>, and the departure is said to be related to Forstall refusing to sign an apology.<\/p>\n<p>According to sources, Forstall has been axed over the refusal to sign and present an apology letter over the problems surrounding Apple Maps.<\/p>\n<p>Forstall was said to believe that an apology wasn\u2019t necessary, leaving <a title=\"Cook\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/360542-Tim-Cook\">Cook<\/a> himself to sign the letter.<\/p>\n<p>Forstall wasn\u2019t the only casualty in the Apple shake-up, as head of retail <a title=\"John Browett\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/478976-John-Browett\">John Browett<\/a> is also leaving the company next year.<\/p>\n<h5>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052970204840504578087192497916304.html\" target=\"_blank\">Wall Street Journal <\/a><\/h5>\n<p><strong>Related articles<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"iPad 4 and iPad Mini LTE support in SA\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/62962-ipad-4-and-ipad-mini-lte-support-in-sa.html\"><strong>iPad 4 and iPad Mini LTE support in SA<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"iPad Mini 7.9-inch Apple tablet PC announced\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/62880-ipad-mini-7-9-inch-apple-tablet-pc-announced.html\"><strong>iPad Mini 7.9-inch Apple tablet PC announced<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"iPad 4 with global LTE support\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/62884-ipad-4-with-global-lte-support.html\"><strong>iPad 4 with global LTE support<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple drops Senior VP of iOS over Maps debacle <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":340900,"featured_media":52633,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[605,12467,7979,695],"class_list":["post-63430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-apple","tag-apple-maps","tag-quicknews","tag-scott-forstall"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63430"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/340900"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63430"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63482,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63430\/revisions\/63482"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}