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Steve Jobs Resigns as Apple CEO

I dropped Tim a little note saying congrats (because I'm just that arrogant that I think my voice matters.) He replied with a friendly thank you.

But his signature was devoid of any "Sent from my iDevice". :)
 
stay hungry stay foolish - Steve Jobs' 2005 Stanford

we'll steve we'll...
that was one of the sad day on my life .. steve is my muse of everything in my life. i still not get it that is not gonna be on stage in the events. i hope this is a joke . but be well steve take care u're apple & apple is u...
 
HomeButton said:
I dropped Tim a little note saying congrats (because I'm just that arrogant that I think my voice matters.) He replied with a friendly thank you.

But his signature was devoid of any "Sent from my iDevice". :)
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Maybe it's the iPhone 5. ;)
 
VivaLaDricas said:
Probably the new people in place are brainwashed into the Jobs way. So thinner laptops, no optical still, 1 thunderbolt port only. No ethernet (makes it thinner). It will look pretty, like a girl with amazing looks but dumb as a box of rocks. :p

On Win7 and still waiting for all these problems.....still waiting. Didnt see them from 1998-2009. A little break and still no problems. I even get choice its weird. :confused:

Do like my MBP 13 though I will say. Apple wont be my heavy lifter anymore though.
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Why do you think a computer with many ports is 'smarter' than that with fewer ports?

It is fascinating the self-entitlement 'some' of you have. I am a nerd who used the optical drive on my current a total of 4 times. In 3 years. It IS a thing of the past for MOST people. You need it. Cool. But a company isn't going to make design decision and shape the FUTURE by trying to make a couple of thousands oldfarts happy.
 
Compile 'em all said:
Why do you think a computer with many ports is 'smarter' than that with fewer ports?

It is fascinating the self-entitlement 'some' of you have. I am a nerd who used the optical drive on my current a total of 4 times. In 3 years. It IS a thing of the past for MOST people. You need it. Cool. But a company isn't going to make design decision and shape the FUTURE by trying to make a couple of thousands oldfarts happy.
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Plus for you :)
Hey I need my ports and optical discs but not all systems and users need it.
I can honestly say with the dozens of Mac Pros here at work, once in a blue moon a DVD/CD comes in with creative and then we have to put in the network.
Sure I author BD but I still don't need it on my Mac since the deliverable is geared towards set-tops.
Like Ive said before, if you dont like it...dont use it :)
 
xbjllb said:
Maybe, JUST maybe, Apple can get back to making cutting edge computers for video and audio professionals again.

Computers that can handle flash and Blu-ray without screaming "Cooties!!!" and running backwards with arms flailing while crying "This way to the future, fools!"

With software that takes a normal IQ to figure out how to use it fully. AND just works. Not dumbed down for three year-olds.

And with optical drives so everyday small businessmen can distribute content to potential customers cheaply and easily, customers far too busy to sit and wait around for downloads.

Maybe.

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Get over it, that ship has sailed.
 
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What I'm very glad about is that Steve did mature significantly on his return to Apple from Exile and instead of being a lone warrior taking on the world, he learned that he had to build a great team around him. And that's what he did.

So Apple went from this small company run by an undoubted genius who broke barriers, but whose company didn't perform on the financial side, (low earnings, profit margins etc) to a company today who has huge financial muscle behind it and is being properly run and managed. This allows it to develop more products and make things even better. This is what happens typically with Entrepreneurs, the people who invent, start up businesses etc very often are terrible managers, they are two totally different disciplines. The good Entrepreneurs know this and they bring in professional managers, very talented people who can run large organisations and get them to where they need to be.

Jobs to his eternal credit, did that. Bringing in Cook, Schiller, Ron Johnson to lead the Store growth etc. All top people who have helped take Apple to where it now is. This is not an easy thing for any entrepreneur to do.

Marketing gets customers in the door, but it's operations that makes them stay and come back.
 
xbjllb said:
With software that takes a normal IQ to figure out how to use it fully. AND just works. Not dumbed down for three year-olds.
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The beauty of OSX is that its simple enough for three year olds to use yet a *NIX command line junkie can open Terminal and find themselves in familiar territory. OSX far from "dumbed down" and yes, "it just works."
 
My old college professor who now works over at the loop jokingly always tells me that she knows nothing about future products... but she did share a thought in an email with me last night that was interesting.... She said that Scot Forstall is considered within the campus ecosystem to be the closest working employee to Steve for the past 14 years, they are consistently spotted together on campus as "#1 & # 2" Scott has been the chief architect for both OSX & iOS and her own feelings were that Scott has now obviously been given the creative torch from Steve to lead Apples visionary future. She felt that as long as Scott continues to make what's on the inside wonderful and Jonny Ive continues to make what's on the outside wonderful along with Tim's steady hand... then Apple will continue to thrive.

When Steve wrote in his letter "if there ever came a day when I could no longer meet my duties" ...my heart broke a little not for Apple (which will be fine) but for the man himself who clearly from his own words has to bow out at the peak of his truly stunning career. But thankfully leaves behind a real team of rock stars to rise to the challenge of a Steve-less Apple.

http://www.apple.com/pr/bios/
 

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When Steve wrote in his letter "if there ever came a day when I could no longer meet my duties" ...my heart broke a little not for Apple (which will be fine) but for the man himself who clearly from his own words has to bow out at the peak of his truly stunning career. But thankfully leaves behind a real team of rock stars to rise to the challenge of a Steve-less Apple.

http://www.apple.com/pr/bios/
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"leaves behind a real team of rock stars" is good, I just hope Steve will be part of Apple's visionary and Chairman for many, many years to come.
 
Penthouse103 said:
She said that Scot Forstall is considered within the campus ecosystem to be the closest working employee to Steve for the past 14 years, they are consistently spotted together on campus as "#1 & # 2" Scott has been the chief architect for both OSX & iOS and her own feelings were that Scott has now obviously been given the creative torch from Steve to lead Apples visionary future.
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Here is a post I made some time ago May 2010.

https://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?p=9864773&elocution#post9864773

BTW based on his recent demo, he got those elocution lessons.

Jan 2007

https://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?p=3205221&time+machine+guy#post3205221

https://forums.macrumors.com/posts/3580830/

Others

https://forums.macrumors.com/search/?searchid=24216994

Rocketman
 
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When Steve Jobs said, "iQuit" yesterday, everybody in the crowd applauded thinking its Apple's new product.
 
This won't hurt the stock price much. Yes the worriers will drop the price a few bucks, and then it'll bounce right back. Apple has so much $$ in the bank, and their product lines are so well defined, I don't think the effects of his departure will be felt for several years.
 
AaronEdwards said:
Disney without Walt wasn't the happiest place on Earth, they had major problems for decades after Walt died.
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Very true..
For about 10 years after he died they were using the plans he drew up before he died (WDW etc)..

After those plans ran out they spent way too much time in meetings saying (under Card Walker) "What would have Walt done" .."Would Walt have approved of this move" etc..

In fact the corporate raiders (led by Saul Steinberg) were ready to take over TWDC until they brought Michael Eisner in to turn the company around..

Walt died in 1966 Eisner took over in 1987...21 years of no direction for all practical purpose...
 
DLDHistory said:
Very true..
For about 10 years after he died they were using the plans he drew up before he died (WDW etc)..

After those plans ran out they spent way too much time in meetings saying (under Card Walker) "What would have Walt done" .."Would Walt have approved of this move" etc..

In fact the corporate raiders (led by Saul Steinberg) were ready to take over TWDC until they brought Michael Eisner in to turn the company around..

Walt died in 1966 Eisner took over in 1987...21 years of no direction for all practical purpose...
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Then again, when Bill Gates left the position of CEO in 2008, Microsoft finally started to push out good products again (Vista vs 7).
Who knows, maybe when Steve regains his health he might return again! :)
 
Prodo123 said:
Then again, when Bill Gates left the position of CEO in 2008, Microsoft finally started to push out good products again (Vista vs 7).
Who knows, maybe when Steve regains his health he might return again! :)
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Actually that is a good comparison..at Disney after Walt died they tried to "keep him alive" and became stagnate...at Microsoft they moved forward after Bill stepped down..
 
Prodo123 said:
Then again, when Bill Gates left the position of CEO in 2008, Microsoft finally started to push out good products again (Vista vs 7).
Who knows, maybe when Steve regains his health he might return again! :)
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Ballmer replaced Gates as CEO in January 2000 - so XP was released under Ballmer.
 
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