Steve Jobs has left Apple...

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iPhone 5 is meant to come in Mid-October. According to the ad agency Apple hired (once more) to do the tv-ad.

I dont think Apple will change much.
1) Steve Jobs is not gone. He's not the CEO any longer, he's in the board of directors. He wants to continue suggest what to do, developing new devices. Same thing he did for the last 8 months.
2) I cant believe that now Apple is a healthy company, they will do the same mistakes they did back in the 90s. It worked twice the SJ-way and none the other guys' way, so Tim Cook is hopefully smart enough to do what SJ would have done.

Although it's nowhere confirmed, I'm afraid Jobs actually did resign from CEO due to his health which would be very sad. I wish him well.

However, I find it kind of surprising the Apple Stock only dropped by 2 per cent. Kinda little, compared to when SJ announced his medical leaves...
 
Jobs is a true leader which is a rare quality. He leads somewhere and people follow.

Flashback to MacWorld Boston 1997:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxOp5mBY9IY

You can see from the start that these are old skool die hard mac heads. They are proud, stubborn, and hate Microsoft with a passion. Over the course of 10 minutes Jobs completely changes their thinking. That is a leader.
 
Jake Bunce said:
Jobs is a true leader which is a rare quality. He leads somewhere and people follow.

Flashback to MacWorld Boston 1997:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxOp5mBY9IY

You can see from the start that these are old skool die hard mac heads. They are proud, stubborn, and hate Microsoft with a passion. Over the course of 10 minutes Jobs completely changes their thinking. That is a leader.
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[OT]What those haters don't know is that Microsoft saved Apple, just saying :)[/OT]
 
Jaxel said:
Yes, but Microsoft was not a company run by a singular vision; which has been one of it's downfalls. Microsoft has many divisions, with many leaders, and none of them which talk to each other. So often Microsoft's biggest competitors are other divisions within Microsoft itself (see: Zune VS Plays4Sure). Sure, Bill was a visionary, but Microsoft ran fine without him because of task delegation.
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And that's where Sony does better than Microsoft. Before the switch from each division doing things individually, and now all of Sony's divisions are working together because the father of PlayStation, Mr. Kutaragi - had a vision. A console that did it all. Sure, PS3 was expensive, but it pulled the divisions together, and closer than ever before. The problem with Microsoft is that they buy companies and compete with themselves, because of the fact that when they buy companies, they end up making the same products.

And then, I read a news article that said "Why Microsoft shouldn't adopt the Sony buying strategy" First thought was: "Wait, WHAT? You mean you want Sony to stop buying studios that they invested into in the first place? Man, #@^& you." Because had Sony not bought [the] studios - THERE WOULD NOT BE HIGH QUALITY EXCLUSIVE GAMES! My point here is that Sony and Microsoft have different strategies, and I think Sony does better than Microsoft in this aspect. I'm not talking just about the the games division, every division has a singular vision, direction - and if they need to tap another division, that division will help out. It's worked wonders for Sony since the "unification."

As for apple...
Apple is very different. Apple's entire business model has a singular vision, one defined and conducted strictly by Steve Jobs. Steve Jobs managed to figure out how to take sub-standard hardware and software and sell it to the masses at exorbitant prices simply by making the user experience better. Other companies are started to see the importance of emphasis on user experience and are following in suit.
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...You're right. Apple as a whole focuses on each product that goes out of the labs. As small as ipod and iphone line of products are, Apple used EVERY ounce of resource to bring about those devices. If one team in Apple needs an OS developed for this particular product, they rush and focus on it immediately. When the company introduced iPad, Steve Jobs said: "unify ipad and Mac OSX operating systems into one software." The result is an OS that brings your favorite apps onto your Mac computers.

The next big move by Apple is the move into gaming, and it's getting pretty controversial as of late. A. Nobody sees iphone or ipad being in the same league as gaming consoles. Apple wants this. Apple wants to go headbutt into gaming, because of the staggering stats of ipad use. B. ipad is not a game console, just like PlayStation 3 isn't really a game console, it's a multimedia hub.

Honestly, I don't want Apple to enter gaming. Read why.

When Apple makes a real game console, then we all flock. Until then, the controversy is going to continue.
 
I don't think Steve Jobs was the innovative brain behind what Apple is today. CEO's make decisions on what is brought to them... they don't spend their time in the R&D shop developing what Apple is today.

His stepping down as the face is a rather smart move IMHO... especially timing, as Apple just made a 100% turnover increase, took the #1 position for companies from Exxon and it only affected their shares 1% doing so at this present time. Steve is getting old... you need a younger face that will be present for a duration.

Excellent timing I would say...
 
It seems like Jobs should have moved on a long time ago to concentrate on his health.
I certainly think Jobs is "going out on top". (the fact that Apple is the world's Most Valuable company).
Even though he says he'll "still work at Apple", it remains to be seen how much involvement he'll actually have.
 
My view on brand loyalty is that it is stupid.

I make my purchases depending on what I need my purchase to do. When recently shoping for a new phone I looked all all flavors and asked the opinions of people on the issue. In the end settling with the Galaxy S2 because it offered the best set of features for my requirements at the time of purchase.

Steve Jobs made the right call and finally put his health before the company. Apple isn't going to magically implode because he isn't CEO anymore.

In the Mac vs PC department, if an Apple product actually seemed like good value... I would buy one... I love the OS and the functionality, however until the time that I would walk out of an Apple store not feeling like someone bent me over and did some very nasty things with some utilities from the janitors closet... its never going to happen.
 
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Digital Doctor said:
That photo looks like the last one. (cant find the photos) but were in the paper version of the Enquirer.
Probably snapped outside the Standford Cancer Center.
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That picture was taken today and its completely heartbreaking. Love or hate iPhones or Macs, there is no denying that Jobs has always been a vibrant, energetic leader. To see how he has been ravaged by illness should be a sobering reminder to everyone that no amount of success in life makes it last forever and we should cherish every day we have because they are so very limited.

I will pray that he is healed if possible, or his suffering eased if its not.
 
Hmm, I find myself agreeing with Fred again. And on all points. Except "ravaged by illness". He may well be "ravaged by the cure". Many cancer treatments are NDEs. Pretty sure I saw that picture over a year ago.
 
Brogan said:
I agree, but Apple vs PC is akin to religious or political threads, and this one is about Steve Jobs/Apple in particular.
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Agreed, I have nothing against Macs, in fact I would love to have one, but saying that every PC gets the blue screen of death, freezes up, etc is a lie, as Macs can have the same problem.

Now back to Steve, those pictures TMZ posted up are just awful, leave the poor man alone.
 
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