Steve Jobs resigns as CEO of Apple
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- Gucci0
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- Michael Cera = Young SteveGucci
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he's a cunt
- ********0
as previously mentioned, I'd go down in blaze of motherfucking glory, I mean BLAZE. Buy an island, bring in coke, booze and whores. Die very high and happy.
Richard Branson style: http://www.neckerisland.virgin.c…BLAMO!
- he may be on something for teh pain that comes with cancer. i would74LEO
- morphine and oxycontin (opioid firepower)********
- Necker Island blaze of glory: http://www.thesun.co…mediacircus
- WHOA! GONE See!********
- ernexbcn0
Steve Jobs was fired from Apple in the 80s and Apple succumbed into the brink of bankruptcy.
HURR DERP visionaries are predicting the same will happen now.
The difference now is that Steve is leaving himself and set up a team and more than likely a big roadmap into the next 5 years perhaps even more.
Another difference is he's leaving the company with almost 80 billion in cash and cash derivatives.
BLAAAMO! DERP
- Big difference is that he isn't leaving the company at all.monospaced
- I know, but some people are treating this as if the guy not only left but also died.ernexbcn
- true, forgot about that one, knew that actually********
- So they are going to keep his body in an office when he is dead? Interesting.CygnusZero4
- BTW this fucking guy is an apple fanboy, clearly. Lol @ being loyal to pieces of plastic.CygnusZero4
- Who's talking about loyalty here? some of you are truly retardedernexbcn
- herp derpCygnusZero4
- lol Cygnus********
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80B sucka DJ's!
- prophetone0
- paul randmekk
- kinda shite really.********
- dMullins went there!********
- ernexbcn0
CygnusZero4 must have missed the fact that Jobs left the CEO position and will remain in the board as chairman.
- So they are going to prop his dead body up in meetings and whatnot? Sweet.CygnusZero4
- "Hey Steve, do you approve of this"
Some dude behind him moving his head.CygnusZero4 - HAHAHA Cygnus LOL!********
- Just like that documentary, 'Weekend at Bernies'.ian
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^ yes, but he is GOING to die soon. Hence, I'm selling my shares. Fuck that noise.
- I believe chairman position is just honorary, he's most likely in very bad shape.monolith
- cannonball19780
unless you get an equally visionary leader, things will change from the top down.
- monolith0
Biggest problem is that Cook might succumb to board wishes and requests. Something Jobs dealt with aggressively and pushed his ideas for better or worse. Cook doesn't have that persuasion and doesn't have rights like Jobs (the founder of Apple) to go against the board if they request something stupid and try to have Apple act more corporate.
Apple is Jobs for better or worse and no amount of drilling and explaining of strategies can change that. Cook isn't Jobs, it's simple as that. While they might be ok in short term, as they run through their current ideas and product roadmaps, that's when troubles might begin.
For people to think he magically transferred all of his ideas and thoughts to Cook is ludicrous. You have to be hands on with problems and situations as they arise while running a company and that's what made Jobs Jobs and nobody can replace that. If it was easy every other company would have a CEO like Jobs, but they don't.
- very well put, hence I'm selling my shares. haha :-)********
- very well put, hence I'm selling my shares. haha :-)
- SteveJobs0
apple will be fine, but you can't deny steve's selling power at his keynote's. nobody will be able to deliver like he did. his absense in this respect will hurt the company, but not as profoundly as many want to believe. they'll continue to refine their current line and innovate as well, but apple will never have such an iconic frontman with his passion to sell technology as though it were truly magic.
- monospaced0
Guy Kawasaki said it best. It was something along the line of, If Apple continues to focus on the end product, the user experience, they'll be just fine. The second they start looking at the bottom line, and competing and comparing with everyone else, they're fucked. Steve was always willing to risk everything for a quality experience/product, never compromising to cut corners. That philosophy I believe is strong throughout Apple and as long as it is there they'll be fine.
If the stock does drop (which it isn't, yet) it's really just a buying opportunity. Another thing to note is that Cook has pretty much been running day-to-day operations at Apple for several months and that Steve does support the guy. I, for one, am optimistic about a bright Apple future.
- The stock dropped more than 10% since yesterday.monolith
- no it didn't!!! at the time I wrote this it's down a whopping .25%monospaced
- bulletfactory0
@monolith
"For people to think he magically transferred all of his ideas and thoughts to Cook is ludicrous...."This technology is likely in Jobs' 5 year roadmap.
- moniker0
- +1********
- Tim Cook makes me think of the James Dyson guy.crillix
- next macbook pro... only 9,000 prototypes to get it right with new retro design strategyprophetone
- those portraits are so very tweaked towards their functions, i think i could tell each.arne
- was that even english? nevermind.arne
- wtf, ron johnson looks like an alien in a human suit.********
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- monolith0
@SteveJobs
I don't think it matters what public things. What matters is how he ran the company and his visions and I don't see anyone in today's business world that can match that role within Apple. In that way Jobs was truly very unique.
There are no CEOs that are capable of turning a company such as Apple from bankruptcy to the most powerful company in the world. At least not the ones I have seen so far. You have to be doing A LOT of things right (at least in terms of your own company) to do that and thinking that a project manager guy like Cook (and he was really that. He was managing divisions based on Jobs' orders) can replace a business visionary like Jobs.
Jobs' strength was not the fact he was anal about details and making pretty products and yelling at people at Apple and ruling with iron fist, his strength was his vision and putting together EVERYTHING in his mind and evaluating where the market lacks and pushing Apple to dominate that market. This is what made Apple a leader.
I'm less than confident Cook can do that. I'm sure a lot of Jobs views on things reflected on Cook considering he was working directly under Jobs and he might try to mimic Jobs in some things and he can try to think "This is what Jobs would have wanted" but in the end it's still Cook and not Jobs who runs the company.
He's a great COO but he's no visionary.
- monolith0
Btw, there is one thing you need to also understand. There is a huge difference when it's your company you are running. Your passion and emotional connection is so strong to it that you will do anything to make it succeed.
You understand the essence and ideas behind the company you started. In that regard, Apple was his company, his baby. And that love Jobs had for Apple is why Apple is where it is today. No other person can have this emotional connection to Apple as founders did.
I don't see anyone else running it with passion and care for success as he did. Maybe Woz but Woz is not a business guy.
- ********0
If anyone understands Apple from a design and ideas point of view it's Jon, shame he did not get the position. I just hope OS X does not go to shit.