Jonathan Ive in Line to Succeed Steve Jobs?

[kingtj]

Phil Schiller

I think you're on to something here.... It seemed to me like Jobs was making an attempt to get Phil used to appearing and doing some "presenting" at recent Keynotes, and maybe there's a hidden motive behind that.

Don't forget, he was recently doing a lot of talking about things like "future direction of the iPhone", and completely contradicted the "party line" on apps development and iPhone hacking that Jobs was going with. That seemed a bit odd to me -- almost like Jobs decided to throw Schiller out there into the media without "briefing" him first on what he wanted to say (or not say). That very well could have been another attempt at prepping him for a future leadership role at Apple?

Making Ives the CEO makes little sense, because that would take away from his ability to contribute with the skills he has to offer them ... designing artistic cases for their products.

Ive would be no doubt a good choice, but I don't think the best choice. I think the best choice is someone we won't expect.

Ive is not a trained or schooled in programming or marketing. He's an artist.

Phil Schiller wouldn't be bad.

 

[AtHomeBoy_2000]

I think you're on to something here.... It seemed to me like Jobs was making an attempt to get Phil used to appearing and doing some "presenting" at recent Keynotes, and maybe there's a hidden motive behind that.

I disagree to a point. Phil Schiller is marketing. Ives is concepts. I think your CEO to be a concepts guy, not a marketing guy. YES Steve is basically a marketing department in and of himself, I want a creative design guy to tell the company where to go.

 

[xUKHCx]

When Clarkson does take over Apple...

James May as Clarkson's new Ive. At least he has a proper haircut and a modicum of taste. His amphibious vehicle's inclusion of a sail showed real style and ingenuity.

As for Hammond, he can be head of marketing with those poncy retouched teeth of his.

And Stiggy? Head of engineering.

Will it end up in the usual top gear fashion though, ambitious but rubbish.

 

[StevenBallmer]

Ivey has had an unbelieveable offer from DELL!

This could ressyrect them!

 

[AidenShaw]

This could ressyrect them!

http://www.dell.com/content/product...sdt_one?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs&~tab=bundlestab

 

[ClimbingTheLog]

Nah, its alright, they'll use time machine to keep bringing him back.

Nah, he'll just use his RDF on the Reaper each time he comes to visit.

He'll convince the Reaper that his job isn't really all that satisfying, and wouldn't he rather come along with Jobs and change the world.

 

[Cloudane]

Will it end up in the usual top gear fashion though, ambitious but rubbish.

Anyone can design a computer, I mean how hard can it be?

They'll have this "mini tower" everyone's asking for done in no time. Take a Mac Pro, cut the case up a bit, throw a smaller motherboard in, solder in the Apple bits and bobs needed for OS X to run, get the best video card on the market and pop that in, some carefully engineered water cooling designed by none other than Clarkson himself, weld it shut and away it goes.

To test its performance, hand it over to their tame games player for a round of Quake 3. Don't hand it over to Hammond though, that's like installing Windows on it, makes it rather crash-prone.

And it only cost £10,000 to make!

Meanwhile James May tuts in the corner as he enjoys the comfortable speed of his old Mac Classic.

What's that watery zapping sound?

 

[FelixDerKater]

Ive is definitely passionate, and an excellent designer, but I don't know that he has the uncompromising management style required to keep a company like Apple moving forward.

 

[Butthead]

Though mostly speculative, Timesonline.co.uk profiles Apple's Vice-President of Industrial Design, Jonathan Ive, as a possible successor CEO to Steve Jobs.

The author suggests that there has been some call for a plan for 'Apple after Steve Jobs', who is currently 52 years old. Jonathan Ive might be the man to take that place. Ive and Jobs are said to share a similar perfectionist attitude and are in close contact on a daily basis.

Of course, some doubt that Ive has the charisma to replace Jobs as CEO, in what has been a very public role.

The question of Steve Jobs successor has been raised before, with one suggestion that Google's CEO Eric Schmidt might have taken a temporary role as Apple CEO back during the option-backdating scandal.



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Yep, there has been a thread here on the Community forum 'what if Steve died', lol. Just as speculative, just as news worthy. This is what MR considers a 'rumor'....huh??? All of wanna be writers can 'suggest' that there has been such a 'suggestion', lol...but is that a 'rumor' per se???

 

[John Musbach]

Though mostly speculative, Timesonline.co.uk profiles Apple's Vice-President of Industrial Design, Jonathan Ive, as a possible successor CEO to Steve Jobs.

The author suggests that there has been some call for a plan for 'Apple after Steve Jobs', who is currently 52 years old. Jonathan Ive might be the man to take that place. Ive and Jobs are said to share a similar perfectionist attitude and are in close contact on a daily basis.

Of course, some doubt that Ive has the charisma to replace Jobs as CEO, in what has been a very public role.

The question of Steve Jobs successor has been raised before, with one suggestion that Google's CEO Eric Schmidt might have taken a temporary role as Apple CEO back during the option-backdating scandal.



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No one will ever truly replace Steve Jobs ...he has an infinite amount of energy and brilliance that has yet to be replicated, but alas the elixir of life has yet to be found as well so I suppose he must be replaced eventually, lets just hope that Apple product quality doesn't decline too much when the inevitable happens...

 

[notsofatjames]

Ive is a fantastic designer, but doesn't have the same charisma as Steve Jobs, and would never give such legendary keynotes. Ive doesn't like public speaking, and it is very difficult to find and public interviews. I found one interview on youTube (on iPhone, i suppose the website has a bigger catalogue) and a couple of little snippets of him in some launch videos for new apple products (namely the iPod and PowerMac G5).

I couldn't think of a suitable replacement off the top of my head. Phil Schiller always seems keen to take part in the keynotes mind.