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Jobs to Remain Closely Involved in Apple's Product Strategy

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In the wake of the news that Steve Jobs has resigned as Apple CEO, the Wall Street Journal spoke with their sources who said that Jobs has remained actively involved:
People familiar with the situation have said that Mr. Jobs continues to be active at Apple and is closely involved in the company's product strategy. Apple watchers don't expect that to change even after Mr. Cook takes over.
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Tim Cook has been made Apple CEO at the recommendation of Jobs.

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This can only be good news that he will still be involved, and also implies that his health hasn't deteriorated from first thought.
 
Probably similar to his role now. I have a feeling Jobs will always have a strong influence and be a part of product innovation until he dies.
 
I think Ivy and Forstall have been the more valuable Apple employees in recent years.
 
In other words, nothing has changed compared to the last 8 months.

It's like everyone is at a funeral. This should be a celebration of his success as CEO.
 
no death soon!

ECUpirate44 said:
Probably similar to his role now. I have a feeling Jobs will always have a strong influence and be a part of product innovation until he dies.
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You are correct in saying that Steve Jobs is still in his same role. But hopefully he will not die for a long time!
 
Well, Tim Cook has been temporary CEO ever since Jobs announced his medical leave... so he is probably now taking over completely. It was probably only a matter of time before SJ handed him the CEO position.

Either way... I am in shock. I really had hoped to see SJ on the stage announcing the iPhone 5 among other things at the Sept conference... This is just... wow. :(
 
AIP5 said:
Either way... I am in shock. I really had hoped to see SJ on the stage announcing the iPhone 5 among other things at the Sept conference... This is just... wow. :(
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Agreed. I think now the iPhone 5 announcement is going to be even more anticipated, to see how it is handled for the first time completely without Steve.
 
matthew12 said:
You are correct in saying that Steve Jobs is still in his same role. But hopefully he will not die for a long time!
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I think there is a really big risk that Steve will leave us before the end of the year.

Steve has been seen in cancer clinics during this year. An educated guess is that the cancer have come back. The bigger problem is that Steve has a new liver. The immune system is effected whit the new liver and medication for it.

When they decided to release Steves autobiography book this year instead of next year: great warning signal.

I am just waiting for all Fandroids to start post: Karma is a bitch and other stupid things.
 
ECUpirate44 said:
Probably similar to his role now. I have a feeling Jobs will always have a strong influence and be a part of product innovation until he dies.
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Exactly. This is like making his medial leave (which has been this entire year) permanent. But he’s remained involved all year anyway.

We can imagine all kinds of terrible news, or even really good news, but we just don’t know. From what little we do know, the big change for Apple was in January (and has gone great) not today. I hope it was a change that worked out for him too!
 
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In the wake of the news that Steve Jobs has resigned as Apple CEO, the Wall Street Journal spoke with their sources who said that Jobs has remained actively involved:Tim Cook has been made Apple CEO at the recommendation of Jobs.

Article Link: Jobs to Remain 'Closely Involved' in Apple's Product Strategy
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Thank you, Steve Jobs, for defining an epoch. There are only a handful of people alive in the world about whom that can be said.
 
All the best, Steve. We love you.

I have held the image since his medical leave in January that Steve's wife, family and close friends held an "Intervention" with him, saying, in effect:

"If you keep working at the pace that you have been working, that stress on top of your pancreas health issues will kill you in 2 years. Give up being in total control, meditate, go to the beach and guide Apple from a greater distance and you can live to an old age and continue to have a big impact."

I think that is what he has been doing, giving the presentation at the WWDC, creating agreements with China Telecom etc. and he now has confidence that Apple can prosper with him being 'navigator' and without his hand on the tiller at all times.

May it be so.
 
cmassage said:
I have held the image since his medical leave in January that Steve's wife, family and close friends held an "Intervention" with him, saying, in effect:

"If you keep working at the pace that you have been working, that stress on top of your pancreas health issues will kill you in 2 years. Give up being in total control, meditate, go to the beach and guide Apple from a greater distance and you can live to an old age and continue to have a big impact."

I think that is what he has been doing, giving the presentation at the WWDC, creating agreements with China Telecom etc. and he now has confidence that Apple can prosper with him being 'navigator' and without his hand on the tiller at all times.

May it be so.
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Very well said!

And who knows, he may still do the keynote for iPhone 5.
 
This honestly feels kind of like when Bill Gates stepped down as Microsoft CEO and became chief software architect... minus the philanthropy.

Both are stepping down from day to day CEO activities, but both stay involved in the company, at least for a while.
 
levitynyc said:
I think Ivy and Forstall have been the more valuable Apple employees in recent years.
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Disagree. They may get more glory but Cook's impact has been far greater and more extensive. Some of us can remember the experience of trying to buy an 8500 back in the day and waiting months as just one example.
 
longofest said:
This honestly feels kind of like when Bill Gates stepped down as Microsoft CEO and became chief software architect... minus the philanthropy.

Both are stepping down from day to day CEO activities, but both stay involved in the company, at least for a while.
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Let's just hope Cook does it better than Ballmer(probably will).
 
Just imagine the applause if Jobs were to be the one to introduce the iPhone 5. It'd be a fitting way for him to go out.

On stage, product in hand.

:apple:
 
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