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> so far I don't see any sign of the kind of leadership that would require.

As of 29 October 2012 - Eddy Cue in charge of maps/cloud services, Craig Federighi in charge of iOS/OSX, Jony Ive in charge of human interface and hardware design. It'll be interesting to see how iOS 7 pans out, because these guys are very good at what they do.

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Ive is a brilliant hardware designer but software UX is a whole different ballgame and his ability there is currently a big question mark. Cue and Federighi were both on board when a number of architecturally questionable APIs were added (Storyboards, AutoLayout), so they're a bit of an unknown too. That's why there's so much riding on iOS 7.

Contrast this to Google which has a strong, stable team in place that's been doing superb work for the last few Android releases and you can see why people are a little gun shy about APPL right now.

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