Scott Forstall speaking at iPhone Software Roadmap event on 6 March 2008.

Scott Forstall is senior vice president of iPhone software at Apple Inc.

Forstall graduated from Stanford University in 1991 with a degree in symbolic systems, and received his Master's Degree in 1992 for computer science, also from Stanford.^[1]

Forstall, who came over from NeXT when it was purchased by Apple in 1997, is regarded as one of the original architects of the Mac OS X operating system and Aqua user interface.^[2] He was promoted to Senior Director in January 2003.

Forstall became responsible for Mac OS X releases after Avadis Tevanian stepped down as the company's Chief Software Technology Officer and before being named Senior Vice President of iPhone Software.^[3] He has spoken publicly at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conferences, including talks about Mac OS X v10.5 in 2006 and iPhone software development in 2008, later after the release of the iPhone 2.0 and 3G Versions, and most recently on June 8th, 2009 at Apple's 2009 World Wide Developers Conference.

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