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Why do you see him as power hungry? I see him as having a kind of technological artistic vision at the level of genius, and being so intensely focussed on that vision that he has neither time nor patience for anything that does not help him reach that vision. But from what I've read, if you can understand his objective, he gives you all the power you can use to pursue it with him. Of course he doesn't let go unless he has to. But it has nothing to do with greed or power - it has to do with being driven to achieve his vision. If he were a writer, he'd have to write. If he were a muscian, he'd have to make music. If he were a painter, he'd have to paint. But he's a Steve Jobs, so he has to Apple. |
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Only Apple? Do people forget he had similar success with Pixar? Dale |
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My guess is that Jobs has laid out a blueprint for Apple's continued success extending at least a decade into the future. All systems tend toward entropy, of course, but 68 billion in cash reserves will sustain a lot of entropy. |
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The current CEO probably will have the skills, but the innovation ideas or the charisma, cannot or won't be replaced. The impact, if one, will be noticed in one or two years, assuming he's really ill or not coming back. |
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I just can't imagine a Mac conference without Steve there in his black turtlenecks. Wow. He gets on my nerves a lot but I have to admit I was always excited about Apple's announcements when he's in charge. Without him? Not so much.
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It may make you (and I) unhappy in the near-term to pay higher eBook prices, but you do realize that in the long run, what this accomplished was to prevent Amazon from establishing a monopoly through their ability to continue to sell books at a loss until the competition vanished, right?
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I just read that there was an iOS autocorrect error, and Steves message was really intended to say "I reign as CEO of Apple".
![]() While Steve rightly receives a lot of acclaim for his artistry -- he's also probably one of the greatest businessmen in the industry today too. He's the largest shareholder at Disney, Pixar was sold for a lot of $, and Apples stock was $9 ten years ago -- and now it's at $372. The business community warned him not to open retail stores, and now they can't build them fast enough. The business community thought his collision with the cell phone carriers would be Apples graveyard, and now they can't build enough phones to satisfy demand. The tablet industry...the music industry... As someone who spent a few hours tinkering under the hood of his car in the hot sun this morning, I'd love for him to spend another 30 years working on the automotive industry. |
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I would love for Jobs to work in the Auto industry...I just wouldn't be able to afford an Apple car. |
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I don't wish cancer on anyone. I don't wish ill health to Jobs. But hiding your heads in the sand about what Jobs & Apple did to eBooks is not going to change what happened. |
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Well, I hope that others are kinder to you when ill health hits than you are to others. You are complaining about a hobby. A leisure activity. And you're starting to sound like Jeff Bezos. |
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The question, as I see it, is whether Jobs has created a culture at Apple which will survive him. I'll bet he has. I've listened to him being interviewed, and it seems clear to me that he is the kind of person who thinks about that sort of thing. If he has applied himself to the culture as well as he has to the products, Apple will do just fine. |
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This isn't a funeral thread. It isn't even a "Steve Jobs has cancer" thread. The notion that it is somehow impolite to criticize the actions of someone who happens to have cancer in their retirement thread (a common place to discuss legacy) perplexes me.
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