Scott Forstall

And then there's all these examples.

And the one that really gets me, Scott Forstall told me.

Scott was the head of software for Apple during iPhone and other big projects.

He's done, to my knowledge, no interviews with a journalist since he left Apple in 2011.

That's Steve's executive conference room.

His assistant sits us down, and next thing I know, you've got Tim Cook walking in, uh, Eddy Cue walking in, Scott Forstall walking in.

And we're just sitting there talking, waiting like twenty to thirty minutes for Steve to, to come into the room.

And it's a lot of small talk with them, and I was warned ahead of time 'cause Steve had just come back from being out.

Siri.

that Scott Forstall, who did the introduction at the time...

Oh, shoot, I had the quote up here, and then

I...

You're doing my thing.

Yeah.

He described it as, Scott Forstall described it as, quote, your intelligent assistant that helps you get things done just by asking.

And Scott Forstall no longer works at Apple.

Yeah.

And I don't know, I'm sure you remember this, but, like, uh, it's actually Scott Forstall [laughs] showing a bunch of examples of what Siri could do back then on the iPhone 4S.

I, I think, is that the one where he failed, and he said, "Steve Jobs is somewhere right now yelling at the ceiling"? I think that's the one.

Oh, may- [laughs] maybe it was.

Like, I wasn't qualified to do that.

But the funny part was, you know, we were in a meeting, and at some point, you know, uh, Scott Forstall had, had asked, like, "Okay, well, you know, uh, does anybody here, like, you know, who likes to game?" Right? And like I mentioned, most of my team was, like, 40 and 50 year olds at the time.

[laughs]

So, like, I just, like, stupidly raised my hand.