Scott Forstall is a senior vice president with Apple and leads the team charged with developing the iPhone's operating system and software. Being in charge of a game-changing product like the iPhone would be a nice feather in anyone's cap. But Forstall may be poised to take over Apple after Jobs because of the strong work he's done designing the guts of the iPhone.
That experience -- creating something that revolutionized the market -- may give Forstall an edge because he knows what the process is like for creating something totally new and different, something Apple as a company highly values.
