Since Jobs died Apple has lost it's spark. I use to get so excited when they released a new product, but these days the feelings aren't there. Apple just feels like another company now.
To me, the only thing that has changed is the Master Showman strutting out on stage with the impish grin cracking funny and enjoying the spotlights.
Apple is facing the same sturm und drang that any large company faces when their leader dies, or suddenly leaves. There was a fair amount of this when Bill Gates essentially quit Microsoft. I can imagine that Oracle will be the next huge company to get the 'Jobs Treatment' when Larry Ellison dies, or possible Virgin when Branson does something stupid and lynches himself on live TV.
It's a creepy level of idolatry and yes, sometimes it is proven true, and yet some companies survive the transition very well.
My focus is on the 'Wall Street Urinal' brand of 'Urinalism'. To be a Wall Street Journal Urinalist', you have to be adept at making your thesis as negative as you can before you even walk in the door, and then grab at as many straws as you can to enforce that thesis. She had a preconceived notion on Apple: That it would, and is, failing.
She (and Wall Street in general) had a bone to pick with the many changes Tim Cook has instituted at Apple, being the charitable matching, the support for gender equality, the forced recognition of the workers at Apple's suppliers and contractors. Those just aren't tolerated in today's American Business Environment where you are not supposed to care what your contractors in the next hell hole pay or treat their economic slaves. You are a GOD, you are their indirect EMPLOYER, you can SQUASH them and don't CARE how many you maim and drive to suicide in the pursuit of PROFIT PROFIT PROFIT.
You see the same, or very similar mania about Costco as you do about Apple now with the only difference being Steve's passing...
I wouldn't buy this book in paper form, only because it wouldn't be very usable as toilet paper and would probably plug the whole thing up.
I (tongue in cheek) suggest that someone buy this rag, strip and security from it, and post it on as many sites as it can be posted. Deny this harpy the profit she certainly hopes to reap as she poses over the perceived corpse of Apple, ripping vulture like into the carrion she views as being laid out in front of her. I'm sure the other vultures will ensure that she makes enough money off this screed to live a good life...
The vultures of Wall Street have feasted on way to many companies for incredibly stupid and misguided reasons. It probably comes from the top: Rupert Murdoch. But then rot does start from the top at times...
It's telling perhaps how the many orifices of Murdoch look like the witches castle in The Wizard of Oz. 'Release the flying monkeys!!!'
