Jobs resigns as CEO, remains as Chairman of the Board and employee.
Tim Cook is new CEO.
The industry loses a visionary. While reasons were not cited, may Steve Jobs’ have improved health and get to enjoy life after Apple.
Stock is getting hurt right now, but I feel with at least the next two product mixes have been defined, and the company is a machine when it comes to execution, so everything’s going to be alright. The question is whether Tim Cook can display the same charisma, vision and ability to align the company in ways that let it define entire brand new product markets and make the really big bets that have gotten it to where it is.
All that happened to day was merely a formalisation of the current arrangement. Tim cook has been running the show for a fair while now. Steve Jobs has been working on the side for a while now. Doubtful anything will change except the temporary opportunity to buy apple stock at a good price (:
I think they won’t do well now. Apple is not so much driven by innovation but by charisma which they won’t be able to easily replicate with Jobs gone.[/quote]
hahahahaha… :roflmao:
Apple’s list of game-changing products suggests those sentiments are :loco:
Steve needs to focus on giving away his vast wealth to deserving charities. He’s been great at making it, now he needs to be great at giving it away (or at least the majority of it).
I think they won’t do well now. Apple is not so much driven by innovation but by charisma which they won’t be able to easily replicate with Jobs gone.[/quote]
hahahahaha… :roflmao:
Apple’s list of game-changing products suggests those sentiments are :loco:[/quote]
I wouldn’t say that sheep lined up the night before to get the latest iPhone that sucks about as much as the one before it really means that Apple is creating anything that is game changing. Their profit is from people that line up voluntarily to get fleeced.
That said I don’t have anything against people that like an iPhone, however, the majority of their profits are from sheep that would line up overnight to buy an ifeces if Steve Jobs said it was the latest new fad.
The iPhone can’t do anything special that the latest Android phone can’t do
The geeks that invented the computer mouse didn’t invent computer graphics, but Jobs saw both and envisioned the Graphical User Interface with point and click functionality. That is what a visionary and innovator can do when all the other geeks are walking around scratching their balls.
With the phone too. Android can do what iphone can do now: after Apple invented the smartphone.
Disclaimer: I have never owned an Apple product and probably never will.
Like Charlie i have never owned an Apple product and may not soon either as there are cheaper alternatives out there. That said. Apple has been successful because their products on the whole have been and are better made, have more innovative designs and often work better. They only cost more (quite a bit more) then their competitors but that may be reasonable in view they are better made and work better.
come on you know he cant afford more then one pair of jeans and a shirt or two.
but honestly who cares. thats his iconic style. and if you are a billionaire you can dress however the heck you feel. bravo for him. He hasnt aged well tho, poor guy.
