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Steve Jobs quits Apple
Atomika
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Jobs will be staying on in chairmanship capacity, bequeathing CEO duties to former COO, Tim Cook.
"I have always said if there ever came a day when I could no longer meet my duties and expectations as Apple's CEO, I would be the first to let you know. Unfortunately, that day has come."
Source.
Apparently, this decision was largely medically motivated, lending much conjecture to the state of Jobs' health. There's probably more bad news to come from this, unfortunately.
Here's hoping for better news.
"I have always said if there ever came a day when I could no longer meet my duties and expectations as Apple's CEO, I would be the first to let you know. Unfortunately, that day has come."
Source.
Apparently, this decision was largely medically motivated, lending much conjecture to the state of Jobs' health. There's probably more bad news to come from this, unfortunately.
Here's hoping for better news.
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tim cook has pretty much been managing CEO responsiblities for the past coupla years anyway what with jobs' health issues and stuff
keynotes and launches will just be slightly less exciting
...frozen!
(It was a jab at his gaunt appearance, and how he is thinner than my new Macbook Air)
Have to watch the trend, but that could be a good deal tomorrow morning!
If his medical issues were enough to make him step down, I would guess even on the board, he'll be doing very little. Will be interesting what the analysts come up with on the company now.
he can still enact his vision and make the important decisions at the monthly board meetings anyway which isn't very much responsiblity at all considering Tim Cook has been the day to day guy for a long time now
Eerie.
I will accept all but modern PC without explanation. How'd he bring the modern PC to market?
The first Mac OS was the template for all modern desktop operating systems. Similar to the way the iPhone came out and suddenly a few years later every single smartphone takes after its design and interface.
The Alto was cooler.
"Nerds in a lab" is a market!
Ok, I'll go sit over there.
You were his final conquest.
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But it was Steve Wozniak who created the OS and hardware for the Apple I and II, so you can't really credit Jobs for all the modern PC stuff.
The Apple I and Apple II were neat but they were really just cheap, popular hobbyist microcomputers, like those that came before and those that died out after. When I talk about Apple pioneering the modern PC, I mean the Lisa and the Macintosh. Keyboard and mouse, high res graphical interfaces, windows, draggable files and folders, dropdown menus, scroll bars, all back in 1984.
And of course that wasn't all Jobs either. There was the foundational work done at Xerox Parc and the contributions of Jeff Raskin, Bill Atkinson and more should not be forgotten. But behind it all, pushing, was Steve Jobs.
You're doing a huge disservice to the engineering brilliance that made those cheap hobbyist computers work so damned well and be so cheap (aside from the 6502, which really was a world cheaper than other CPUs at the time, something Woz/Jobs thought was a mistake in advertising when they started ordering them.) Hell, just look at the DISK II drive head calibration method. And that's just an accessory.
People tend to not realize just how crazy hardware limitations were back then, and the brilliant workarounds needed to turn systems into actual useful computers.
Also, the Apple II was a whole hell of a lot more than a hobbyist personal computer.
That said, Jobs saw the value and pushed the marketing of the computers. But the Apple I and II were breathtakingly well designed machines which were extremely clever , particularly when measured up against the kludgy crap they competed with. Especially in regards to the Apple I.
It'll be interesting to see what Apple does in the near future. On one hand, it's not like Apple was JUST Jobs. On the other hand, he really was a domineering, controlling influence. Without his force of personality, Apple will be a different company.
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"Then Alexander Wept, for there were no more worlds to conquer."
His replacement being Tim Cook is a good sign. He is the mastermind behind the Apple production line. Streamlining it into the effective machine it is today. To paraphrase a millitary saying: "Amateurs talk about Vision and Design. Professionals talk Logistics and Production."
Much of Apple's success has been the ability to crank out Ipads, Iphones and Ipods at a cost most other companies couldn't match.
The competitors are actually trying to talk Intel into giving a $100 subsidy for CPUs so they can compete with Apple's prices.
I don't know if Ebert should be the example people should strive for.
I mean, he went from being a normal guy to a guy who got his voicebox and half of his face removed. I honestly don't know if I could make that decision and not just let the cancer take me.
There are a lot of people who don't like Jobs (for whatever reason), you don't want to give these types any satisfaction. But how he deals with his suffering is his own choice. I'd hope he'd cowboy up, maybe I'm like that because I've been assaulted and hospitalized after losing "everything" not too long ago. F*ck haters.
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I still haven't bought any apple products in my life and I will continue not to. While Apple may make some good hardware, many of their corporate policies are just utterly atrocious and I simply do not want to support that. Plus, I find their whole Apple culture to be revolting.
I try not to swear by habit, I don't know much about Apple culture, but my 4 year old MaBook Pro has been through hell (with me) and works better than any PC desktop I've ever owned. I am convinced. But aside from that, cancer sucks, and should be bullied right back, into hell. So take a break Steve, take the time to remind this fiend who you are, and anyone who knows what I mean, do the same thing.
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I don't want to turn this into the Apple hate thread but Apple's recent behavior has really put me off buying any more Apple products. I still have quite a lot of respect for Steve Jobs, especially his involvement in Pixar.
"Steve Jobs has unexpectedly quit"
Granted, this was pretty expected...
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