Steve Jobs' Resignation Not Indicative of Sudden Worsening of Health

[zub3qin]

Please don't flame me or crucify me for this question.

When the inevitable occurs with SJ, whenever it may be (hopefully not a long long time), anyone think Apple will run some sort of clever "Thank you Steve" tv ad? Similar in concept or feel to the post 9/11 ads seen in the SuperBowl around that time (remember the Budweiser ad?)

Anyone think that these ads are "in the can" already? Not to be morbid- but every newspaper has hundreds of "advancers" or obituaries pre-written.. at the ready for when they are needed.

Is it so far fetched to think Apple hasn't done this as well, and in fact, a control-freak like Steve has been participating in the very creation of these?

 

[gnasher729]

Please don't flame me or crucify me for this question.

I'm too speechless. "Sick, twisted mind" is the phrase that is commonly used.

 

[Yaboze]

Please don't flame me or crucify me for this question.

When the inevitable occurs with SJ, whenever it may be (hopefully not a long long time), anyone think Apple will run some sort of clever "Thank you Steve" tv ad? Similar in concept or feel to the post 9/11 ads seen in the SuperBowl around that time (remember the Budweiser ad?)

Anyone think that these ads are "in the can" already? Not to be morbid- but every newspaper has hundreds of "advancers" or obituaries pre-written.. at the ready for when they are needed.

Is it so far fetched to think Apple hasn't done this as well, and in fact, a control-freak like Steve has been participating in the creation of these?

I'm not sure, but if it's done right and heartfelt, it could be a touching commercial.

 

[cmassage]

Was there an "Intervention"?

I totally disagree. Why can't his stepping down from a job that is both physically and mentally demanding not be good for him? It would seem to me that it would be the very best thing for him to do. Put all his energies and focus on his health and making sure that the family is taken care of and properly prepared in case the worst does happen. I don't hate Steve Jobs, I may not agree with everything he has done, but I admire the hell out of the guy. But I don't feel the need to make him into some Christ-like figure that doesn't care about himself and only cares about what is best for Apple. Come on people, Steve Jobs is a man. There is no doubt that he is a really brilliant man and that he is an incredible marketing genius. But quit trying to make him into a God. No one deserves that kind of burden! He is a great man, but he is not a God. As far as being chairman of the board is concerned, if these pictures that have been posted are indeed real, then I don't even know if he can be doing that? I don't know. There is one thing I do feel pretty sure about and that is that Apple was his baby. And when he was literally fired by the board... that must have broken his heart. I am glad that he got the chance to vindicate himself and show that idiotic group of board members that they were wrong and that he was right! He knew how to run his baby and they did not. If he had never regained control of Apple or if Apple had gone out of business that would have probably been a wound in his soul that would have never healed. As it is, he was vindicated and showed the entire world that he had been right all along. Except for hiring that idiot from Pepsi. Not many men get the chance to actually do something big enough to have actually changed the world. People all over the world probably know who Steve Jobs is. Not many people ever attain that level of fame. He will be remembered as perhaps the greatest CEO in history. The only part of Steve Jobs that I disliked was his giant ego, but I doubt that there are any really great CEO's who do not have a giant ego?

It has been my fantasy that last December, Steve's wife, family close friends, doctor and maybe some senior Apple people held an "Intervention" much like what is done with alcoholics. They told him that if he kept up his current ways as CEO, he might have a year or two to live, but if he were to give up the active CEO-ship of Apple with its level of stress and spend part of each day at the beach or meditating or taking walks in the woods, that he could live and have influence over Apple for some reasonable time to come.

He did this and after 8 months, with it working well, has decided to codify it.

As Chairman of the Board, he can continue to have influence on Apple, host product announcements, personally conduct negotiations with companies like China TelCom etc.

May it be so.

 

[WeegieMac]

I'm not sure, but if it's done right and heartfelt, it could be a touching commercial.

I think the audio from the original "Crazy Ones" commercial, with a montage of Jobs from his early days at Apple right through to present day, showing stills of him unveiling the iMac, iPod, iPhone, and iPad at their various keynotes, and ending, quite simply, with two words as the audio ends: "Thank You".

 

[ikahlE43]

I feel the same way

 

[zub3qin]

RIP Steve

 

[grapes911]

Please see the news thread about Steve's death