‘Big Dogs Only’ - Apple Exec Scott Forstall Partying with 50 Cent

A photograph of Apple’s SVP of iPhone Software and 50 Cent has been doing the rounds, alongside an actual comment from the rapper who reportedly said “this is me with scott forstall he invented the I phone and I pad big dogs only. Lol”

Skipping the misspelled iDevices and zero punctuation marks, 50 seems more eager to have his picture taken with an Apple exec than the Apple exec to have his picture taken with the performer.

Notably, the rapper asserts that Forstall is the guy who invented the iPhone and iPad. This is not entirely true.

Although he did help create what the iPhone is today (likely being named as one of the inventors in the multitude of patents backing the device), his major involvement with Apple is software, as his job description reveals.

Forstall came over from NeXT when the company was purchased by Apple in 1997.

He is regarded as one of the original architects of the Mac OS X operating system, and is directly responsible for the Aqua interface OS X is notorious for.

Forstall started handling Mac OS X releases after Avadis Tevanian stepped down from his position as Apple’s chief software technology officer.

“Forstall joined Apple in 1997 and is one of the original architects of Mac OS X and its Aqua user interface,” Apple’s own description reads.

“He was responsible for several releases of the operating system, most notably Mac OS X Leopard. Prior to Apple he worked at NeXT developing core technologies,” according to Forstall’s bios on Apple.com.

Later, Forstall was named senior vice president of iPhone Software - his current position with the Cupertino-based giant.

He now leads the team responsible for delivering the software at the heart of Apple's iPhone.

This includes the user interface, applications, frameworks and the operating system itself.

Forstall received both a Bachelor of Science in Symbolic Systems and a Master of Science in Computer Science from Stanford University.