• Scott Forstall is the current Senior Vice President of iPhone Software and Platform Experience with Apple. He leads a team which develops the iPhone's operating system, focusing on user interface issues and new applications.

• Fast Facts

  1. Current Senior Vice President of iPhone Software and Platform Experience
  2. Assumed position: June 6, 2008The Mac Observer: Apple Promotes Two Executives and Updates Company Profiles (June 6, 2008)
  3. Previous position: Vice President of Platform Experience
  4. Earned Bachelor's degree in Symbolic Systems from Stanford University in 1991
  5. Earned Master's degree in Computer Science in 1992, also from Stanford
  6. Personally recruited his team of developers from within Apple
  7. Spoke at 2008's Worldwide Developer Conference, where the iPhone 3G was unveiled

• Closed, But Open, Platform

  Forstall has defended the closed-platform nature of software development for the iPhone. He contended that network security could be compromised in a completely open-platform, but maintained that the iPhone platform is essentially open, given the many applications already available for use.The Unofficial Stanford Blog: Junior Convocation Featuring iPhone's Scott Forstall (September 23, 2007)

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