Steve Jobs Resigns From Post as Apple's CEO

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He is the head of a con artist company, and all the kids are drinking the kool-aid with pseudo science techno babble. Getting robbed all the way to the bank to pay for overpriced pcs and parallel on par tablets.

It isn't innovative to call your store employees an "apple genius". derp.
 
Timely and calculated announcement....

After the announcement, Apple stock takes a hit... then they release the new Iphone which will make the stock rebound...

It won't be too far-fetched to think that Steve Jobs will do the Iphone 5 presentation himself... perhaps his last one...
 
One of my greatest regrets is that I handed over to Mr Jobs 300 fucking US dollars some years back for an iPod when I could have purchased a superior device for the same price or less. On a more positive note, purchasing such a device made me come face to face with the mediocrity that permeates almost every Apple product. At one point I grew so disgusted with my the iPod that I flushed it down an Apple store's toilet in Manhattan. Never again will I purchase an Apple product and be Nazied into Mr Jobs drm infested world.
 
[citation][nom]del35[/nom]Apple is about hype and deceit. Mr Jobs had a great deal to do with both. Now that he is gone, a con artist of his skills might lead to iNicelycasedcrap's decline.[/citation]

And what company is this paragon of virtue and honesty? What company truely has your interst at heart?
 
[citation][nom]cmaki2008[/nom]Sad for Steve jobs physical problems. Great for pc's in all though happy about that. I wonder how this will affect the adobe/apple relationship in years to come.[/citation]
and how is this good for the PCs exactly?
 
[citation][nom]cyb34[/nom]He's not leaving Apple, he's the Chairman now. Less work, more money.[/citation]
More like less work same money... he already was chairman
 
As soon as I heard last night I checked Apple stocks... down 5% within hours. Why are investors so stupid? He's still in the Apple car, but instead of driving it he's got a new chauffeur and he's sitting in the backseat telling him where to go. It's like Bill Gates at Microsoft, chairman, but not CEO.
 
[citation][nom]del35[/nom]Do I like Mr Job? I hate the arrogance that he has unleashed in the ranks of the technological invertebrates that like flies flock to bonfires, flock to his products. He has delivered the blow of mediocrity on the march of technology by emphasizing looks over substance. He has hoodwinking technologically retarded people into purchasing devices that lack connectivity and user serviceability; imagine laptops without exchangeable batteries. Mr Jobs is responsible for the dumbing-down of his fans. What is iTunes but a jail compared to programs like Winamp? Mr Jobs will likely go down in the history of technology as the man that through deceit robbed people of their money and technological freedom while giving them a false sense of security, not to mention the false sense of coolness that emanates from his technologically illiterate fanboys as they parade their nicely cased drm infested hardware.In short, Apple is about technological backwardness and deceit, and we have to thank Mr Jobs for his mastery of propaganda.[/citation]
Why don't you go write that history book right now?
 
[citation][nom]del35[/nom]One of my greatest regrets is that I handed over to Mr Jobs 300 fucking US dollars some years back for an iPod when I could have purchased a superior device for the same price or less. On a more positive note, purchasing such a device made me come face to face with the mediocrity that permeates almost every Apple product. At one point I grew so disgusted with my the iPod that I flushed it down an Apple store's toilet in Manhattan. Never again will I purchase an Apple product and be Nazied into Mr Jobs drm infested world.[/citation]


Here's an Idea....make a better product!
 
[citation][nom]del35[/nom]Apple is about hype and deceit. Mr Jobs had a great deal to do with both. Now that he is gone, a con artist of his skills might lead to iNicelycasedcrap's decline.[/citation]

Dude, have you been to an Apple store lately? The current MacBook Pro is the most awesome laptop I have ever owned. And, they can't keep the new MacBook Air 13" in stock. It's the hottest selling back-to-school notebook this year. Hype? Deceit? Dude, keep lying to yourself. The reality is that Apple is making the best products, commanding the highest price, and setting the direction for the entire tech hardware industry.
 


Duuuuuuude - you can get 2-3 BETTER laptops (that are still nice an thin and light) with BETTER specs and hardware for the price of that ONE Air.

Stop drinking the "fashion iKoolaid".
 
Apple's business plan is pretty straightforward. A couple of years ago, I would have been scared for the company. Now, however, it's just business as usual. The loss of the spiritual guru image will surely make stocks take a hit for the next few weeks, but things will get back to normal sooner or later.
 
[citation][nom]Haterade[/nom]Man talking about blind hatred in the comments. Just about every pro Apple comments get voted down and every Apple bashing post get voted up. What have Apple done to ruin your life? Why all the hatred? Did they make your PC cost more? Did they take away innovation? Did they take away your right to choose?People on these post are just vicious.[/citation]
It's been that way for years, and not just here. If you don't use Intel and Microsoft for everything you are labeled a fanatic. Just goes to show you who the REAL fanatics are.
 
[citation][nom]RageMuch[/nom]People on these post are just vicious.So hoping that Apple would go out of business and reducing people's choice is your answer? So everyone should use Windows on their desktop and Android on their smartphone? So in fact you don't like choices or competition; all you want is monopoly. Makes perfect sense.[/citation]

1. We want competition : for example, we want two competing e-mail program on iOS or two competing word processor on iOS; we want two book stores selling books for iPhone/iPad users. Apple prohibits it.

It's not that we want Apple out of the game. We just want an open Apple. Closing would give a lot of profit to Apple but not fair for the consumers -- the iPhone fans.

2. We want competition of mobile operating systems -- we want two competing products, each of which trying to outdo the other. As a computer scientist and Operating System tutor, I understand Apple's iOS is inferior to Android in many possible ways. We want Apple to correct its mistakes and improve their feature. What Apple currently doing is not trying to improve their features, but following Android's feature from 1 year behind -- the notification bar, multitasking, widgets etc.

3. We want competition of products -- we want Apple to compete head-to-head against Samsung, Motorola and HTC in feature war. Only then the customers can benefit. If you look back, iPhone 3G, 3GS and iPhone 4 has inferior CPU, RAM size, call quality (except battery hour thanks to slower CPUs) compared to its contemporary products from Samsung, Motorola and HTC.

Afterall, we are promoting Android and saying "shxt" to Apple for the sake of iFans. iFans are using inferior software running on an inferior hardware but paying a lot more than non-iFans. We are objecting it. As long as iFans can get an iPhone that don comparable hardware/software with us Android users, we won't say a thing.
 
[citation][nom]davewolfgang[/nom]Duuuuuuude - you can get 2-3 BETTER laptops (that are still nice an thin and light) with BETTER specs and hardware for the price of that ONE Air. Stop drinking the "fashion iKoolaid".[/citation]

No you can't - that's a total win-fan-boy BS story if I ever heard one. The MacBook Air has a rigid aluminum uni-bodu construction, magnetic power cord, and thunderbolt port. There isn't a single PC that is shipping today that comes even close.
 
[citation][nom]TEAMSWITCHER[/nom]Dude, have you been to an Apple store lately? The current MacBook Pro is the most awesome laptop I have ever owned. And, they can't keep the new MacBook Air 13" in stock. It's the hottest selling back-to-school notebook this year. Hype? Deceit? Dude, keep lying to yourself. The reality is that Apple is making the best products, commanding the highest price, and setting the direction for the entire tech hardware industry.[/citation]

I bet you are not tech-literate. In hardware, the raw computing power of those Macbook is far inferior to similar priced laptops. In software, yes, their OS is based on Unix and is a secure OS -- but how superior it might be, my ethnic group has two de Facto standards with Font rendering, none of which is supported by their OS since there were only a handful of our ethnic group buying their high-priced products.

At least Windows is open enough so that we can hack into OS to have those de Facto font rendering -- that means, for laymen, we can't read our texts on Apple but on Windows (or on Linux).

Windows 7 also borrowed heavily from Linux and Linux is as superior and secure as OS-X, so ... why bragging ?
 
CEO and COO are very different roles. The latter is focused much more intensely on the bottom line, while the former also has to have a vision for growing the top line. This vision is what SJ has, and what many tech company leaders lack. Disclosure: I'm not an Apple-phile; I eschew iPhones, iPads, iPods, iTV and iMacs in favor of Android phones and home-built computers (of which I currently maintain 3). But I do respect that Apple has identified opportunities for devices that non-technical people would want, and then followed through on the execution to construct devices that were easy to use - far easier in most cases than the competition from the PC / Windows CE / Windows Phone / Android / etc. arena. I believe that Cook possesses the skills to continue to drive such execution - simply because that user-friendly focus is part of the fabric of the Apple organizational structure and development processes.

But it is not clear to me that Cook will be able to identify future tech-gadget opportunities with a low failure rate. That's where the "top line" focus comes into play. Cook has to be able to see which device opportunity might be profitable (kind of like placing a bet), and then apply a significant portion of Apple's development resources towards the R&D for that device. I think Jobs did that with a fair degree of success. Perhaps he will continue to do that in his role as Chairman. I'm just not as confident that Cook has the vision to do that.

What really made Apple a success was the fact that Jobs (I assume) had the vision to focus the company on user-friendliness in the first place, and then drive profits by focusing on form factor, which non-technophiles value more strongly than do technophiles who focus on function.

Cook might be steering the ship, but Jobs chose the course. I doubt Cook's ability to see and introduce the same magnitude of a fundamental change in how a tech company works. And if the course ever needs to change (think the new CEO of Nokia, for an example), I doubt Cook will be up to the challenge.
 
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