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Apple Insider reports that in a major shakeup at Apple, the company announced on Monday that SVP of iOS Software Scott Forstall will be leaving Cupertino in 2013



It is unclear why Forstall and Browett are leaving Apple, though it appears the remaining executives, including Jony Ive, Bob Masfield, Eddy Cue and Craig Federighi, will shoulder the burden in lieu of replacements.

As head of Apple's mobile software division, Forstall recently came under fire when iOS Maps was released in a form inaccuracies combined with missing features to prompt pundits and customers to widely pan the mapping service that replaced the Google Maps-powered app shipped in iOS since its inception.
  Apple execs Scott Forstall and John Browett to leave company