Apple exec behind iOS Map debacle is told to hit the road
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Forstall's final sin at Apple appears to be an unwillingness to admit what everyone with an iOS map knew: version 1.0 was terrible.
Scott Forstall, the executive responsible for Apple's iOS mobile operating system - including maps - is to leave Apple next year, while retail boss John Browett has left with immediate effect.
Forstall was senior vice president of iOS software and was a key figure at several Apple product launch and keynote speeches. Last month he showed off new iOS features at the company's iPhone 5 launch event .
One of the features he demonstrated at that event, iOS Maps, was revealed to be filled with errors and omissions when the operating system launched a week later. Tim Cook, Apple's chief executive, was later forced to apologise that Map
