Steve Jobs Resigns As Apple CEO 1027
An anonymous reader writes "The title says it all, really; Steve Jobs has resigned as the CEO of Apple, and would like to become Chairman of the Board. Reasons are not specified, but his declining health of recent years is a likely candidate. He's named Tim Cook as his successor."
This is a sad day for the tech world (Score:5, Interesting)
Oh, and ONE MORE THING (Score:3)
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Re:This is a sad day for the tech world (Score:4, Insightful)
Let's be blunt. Only nerds on tech sites worry about "closeness." They're a tiny niche that wants to keep their nerd playgrounds around. The vast majority simply wants good products that work.
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Only nerds on tech sites worry about "closeness."
Probably because PCs (yes, this includes Apple's line of computers, sorry fanbois) are so widespread and people still hold significant control over their own computation. If all computers were like the iPad, you can bet that more people would care about openness and all the things that gave rise to the PC revolution in the first place.
Re:This is a sad day for the tech world (Score:4, Insightful)
And all computers *won't* be like the iPad. This is a scenario that is invented whole cloth out of an irrational fear you and many other people here hold. You will always, for the rest of your life, be able to buy a Linux PC, Linux tablet, Linux phone, Linux whatever. Or possibly replace "Linux" with whatever open system replaces it if that happens during your lifetime.
Do you know why that statement is true? That statement is true because people do care about openness and would not be happy if all computers were like the iPad.
Re:This is a sad day for the tech world (Score:5, Insightful)
Only aircraft engineers care about mechanical safety.
That doesn't mean it's not important.
The average technophobe doesn't worry about openness because they already have it and take it for granted, much like the average airline passenger takes for granted that the plane their flying on wont fall apart. What they dont know, nor want to know is that a lot of work goes on in the background by very dedicated people to ensure that everyone can enjoy the boon of openness or safe flights.
Shove the average person into a world of "closedness" and they'll start caring about it quick smart.
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[quote]Come up with some studies showing people's reasons for buying an iPad and I'd pay attention. But just saying, "They sold more of them, that means that they love X 'feature'" isn't necessarily true.[/quote]
Fine, then go lookup customer satisfaction numbers and return rates for iPads/iPhones vs Android tablets/smartphones. Or are these figures also somehow not indicative of the fact that people buy Apple products because they happen to like them, in various ways?
Re:This is a sad day for the tech world (Score:4, Interesting)
"Wait, when a consumer spends a dollar for a iBlah, it's a vote for closed garden."
This is a straw man. The argument here is not that people WANT a closed garden, it is that they don't care. I sincerely doubt that openness figures in people's minds when they buy a consumer product and Apple have proven this with the iPad sales vs. any other tablet. So Android's lead in the phone market is likely to be to something else. Most likely the availability of low-end Android handsets.
Obviously, this is an indirect consequence of the closed garden. Apple does not compete for low-end markets, so there is no low end iOS devices. However, if Samsung didn't compete for low end Android phones, someone else would because Android is open.
But this doesn't change the fact that the consumer doesn't care about openness, even if they do care about some of the indirect consequences, and if Apple decided to compete for the low-end market by introducing an iPhone Nano, they would most likely own that market as well.
the best product, that works the best (Score:3)
is the internet. which is open.
if you want closed, go back to Prodigy and Compuserve.
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"A tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury and signifying nothing."
"owning their own data"? "openess"?
Really WTF are you going on about?
Has Evil Steve Jobs sent his Apple Ninjas to steal your harddrrives again? Did you catch your Time Machine drive phoning The Great Mothership in Cupertino?
Re:This is a sad day for the tech world (Score:4, Informative)
Sucks to be you.
I can't number the times I moved iTunes from OS 8 to OS 9 to OS X, from a 5500/225 to a G3 B&W, to a G4 MDD, to the current G5 dual processor. Can't number the number of hard drives I migrated all my apps and data between OS reinstalls or updates.
I can, however, number all the times I lost the content on the iPod:
0. That's ZERO. The big Goose Egg.
Sorry about your fuckup. Sucks to be you. Next time, read the instructions and don't click OK on every popup without reading and understanding what you are about to do.
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I should add, just because I am a bit OCD that way, I also moved all my music from SoundJam MP on a System 7 PPC Mac TO the 5500/225, running OS8 (and eventually OS9.2.1 (thank you, OS 9 Helper)) and on that Mac, moved the SoundJam MP library to iTunes.
Didn't drop a bit during the move to iTunes.
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Next time, read the instructions and don't click OK on every popup without reading and understanding what you are about to do.
But... but... "it just works"?
Re:This is a sad day for the tech world (Score:5, Informative)
Yeah, it does. It told you EXACTLY what it was going to do. You decided to ignore it, and let it do what it said it was going to do.
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Those were features which were common a decade ago.
And while yes, one can simply not buy apple products, I don't think that's sufficient. Even if you don't buy, everyone else is, and together they're helping define your data as "someone else's pr
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Indeed, and it's only gotten more ridiculous. It's 2011 and you STILL cannot drag and drop MP3s to your i device, you STILL cannot delete songs from your i device without a computer and you STILL cannot use your i device to transfer files to a new computer.
Most people like being able to sync by only plugging in a cable. For me it's much easier. Maybe you like micro-managing the syncing of your MP3 player, I don't. I did that with the Rio Diamond and I hated it.
Re:This is a sad day for the tech world (Score:4, Informative)
PEBCAK.
1) Wipe iPod and enable for disk use.
2) Back up music library before reinstalling OS.
3) Drag music files back into iTunes.
4) Go on with life.
Unless you meant that the lesson learned was to back your shit up before reinstalling, you learned the wrong lesson.
Re:This is a sad day for the tech world (Score:4, Funny)
1) Wipe iPod and enable for disk use.
2) Back up music library before reinstalling OS.
3) Drag music files back into iTunes.
4) Go on with life.
Just works, eh?
So according to your steps ... you wipe the device before you back up your data? How's that work out for you?
Re:This is a sad day for the tech world (Score:5, Informative)
The iPod is just a cache of your music. It's not a backup.
By any reasonable definition, it's a backup, since the files are physically there. It does, however, deliberately pretend for them to be inaccessible, unlike every other similar device on the planet.
Case in point: when I bought my (non-computer-savvy) mother an iPad, the first thing that got her extremely annoyed was that she couldn't just drag and drop files to it in Explorer like she used to do with her USB sticks, MP3 player, and camera, but had to go through setting up sync in iTunes. She doesn't know what iTunes is, and doesn't want to learn yet another way of doing the exact same thing she already knows how to do.
Re:This is a sad day for the tech world (Score:4, Insightful)
I'm gonna go out on a limb, and say that your mother is in the minority. The vast majority of people don't want to have to deal with Explorer to get their songs on a device.
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Hand cranking a car and the weekly maintenance of lead/acid batteries were basic tasks that taught to drivers in times gone by.
Modern cars have starter motors and sealed batteries. And so the driver has to do less.
We're also in the process of moving from people navigating by paper map to GPS.
We're only 30-40 years into the development of personal computer systems. Exposed file systems and the necessary manual file management is a feature of primitive computing systems. Technology is beginning to move away f
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Really? Why? Is there some secret rule that says you can't get your data out? Are app makers forbidden from making that available?
What? You're really just full of crap?
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Yeah, seriously. If you want to copy your music from your iPhone to your computer, it couldn't be simpler:
1) Jailbreak /private/var/mobile/Media/iTunes_Control/Music/
2) Install an SFTP program
3) Set autolock to 'never'
4) Open your FTP program, use your devices address as the host, set the username to "root" and the password to "alpine," or "dottie", set the port to 22
5) connect via SSH and navigate to
6) copy away!
Honestly, it's so super simple that my grandma was able to figure it out on her own!
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Seeing a problem and warning other just helps keep the consumer aware of the limitation of the device they are purchasing.
" If yes, STFU, you KNEW what you were getting into when you laid down the plastic at the Apple Store or Amazon."
Since apple doesn't go out of there way to tell people of their limitations, how do you know he was fully informed?
Re:This is a sad day for the tech world (Score:5, Insightful)
Seeing a problem and warning other just helps keep the consumer aware of the limitation of the device they are purchasing.
" If yes, STFU, you KNEW what you were getting into when you laid down the plastic at the Apple Store or Amazon." Since apple doesn't go out of there way to tell people of their limitations, how do you know he was fully informed?
Limitation? It's a fucking appliance, dude -- you don't buy a dishwasher if you want to do something besides wash dishes, do you? Apple devices are aimed at people that want the functionality, and have zero interest or desire in the mechanism that delivers the functionality. I'm a sysadmin, not a motorcycle geek -- I buy a motorcycle not because it is the most fuel efficient one, or the most mechanically reliable one. I bought a Ducati 1098 because it does what I fucking want it to do -- go insanely fast and look really good in my parking slot at work. I admin linux/windows/solaris/HPUX boxen, but I use an iPhone and an iPad because they do what I want them to do without having to RTFM. Just like my Ducati and my dishwasher.
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I buy an album of MP3 songs from Amazon. I drag and drop the folder onto the iTunes icon. The songs are copied to iTunes. Again, seamless to the iDevice.
Someone bought into the "easiest to use" myth.
Let me explain the process for copying music d/led from amazon onto a $30 non-apple mp3 player:
I buy an album of MP3 songs from Amazon. I drag and drop the folder onto the device icon. The songs are copied to the generic device. Again, seamless to the generic player.
Sound familiar?
Now, of course, if I have content on my device that I want copied to another device, I simply reverse the process. Try getting all of your songs copied from your iDevice onto another
Quick equation for you (Score:2)
Functionality > philosophy
Re:This is a sad day for the tech world (Score:5, Insightful)
He mostly set it in design. But realistically, he took the whole open platforms and devices to really bad direction with the closeness of iOS and maybe upcoming Macs. Would you really want that for computer world?
What a silly question.
Open systems need competition from closed systems just as closed systems need competition from open systems.
A complete lack of direction cannot be the only way forward, and lack of diversity is not healthy. You need both.
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What a silly question.
Open systems need competition from closed systems just as closed systems need competition from open systems.
Open systems ensure competition even in a world with no closed systems. Of course, to keep things completely competitive you actually need open source, and open systems might not be enough, but closed systems don't enter into the equation.
Shachar
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Re:This is a sad day for the tech world (Score:5, Funny)
Millions of people also said "yes we do" to MS-DOS.
Being the vanguard of those with absolutely no taste is not necessarily something to brag about.
Re:This is a sad day for the tech world (Score:4, Insightful)
It isn't taste, so much as the mass of people don't really need to do anything particularly special with a computer. Or any other thing really.
You might, and I write might because most people here are complete posers, need your computer to do something particularly taxing or specialized. In the MS-DOS days people mostly needed to correct a paper they wrote without using up all their correction tape, or maintain a basic spreadsheet, or sort a list. No one needed a multi user UNIX machine for that nor did it makes sense to pay for one. MS-DOS and Windows built on top of it was adequate and cheap.
I'm geeky about rifles. ANd having been a USMC 8541 my tastes run toward quality. When I walk into a rifle shop and see stacks of plastic stocked lowest bidder sticks I think about how people have no taste. But in reality some guy who shoots a deer a year at 75 yards has no need for a McMillan handle and would never ask enough of it appreciate the difference.
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Millions of people are wrong about most things. But yeah, that doesn't mean that any random person can be counted on to really know any better.
Re:This is a sad day for the tech world (Score:4, Insightful)
So what you're saying is that millions of people are wrong and should bow to your taste. Sounds like a dictatorship.
It certainly worked for Steve.
Re:This is a sad day for the tech world (Score:4, Insightful)
As much as Bill Gates may have been a royal thieving bastard, and as much as I loathe most of what Redmond has done over the last twenty years, anybody who says that Bill Gates was less important that Steve Jobs to the computer world is out of their minds. Gates' MS-BASIC became THE interpreted language of the late 1970s and right through the 1980s. Whatever the source of MS-DOS, the fact is that he built a mighty software empire at the same time as Apple was treating its product line like a walled garden. Yes, Gates had significant help from IBM, but the mere fact that the overwhelming majority of personal computers out there are running one of Microsoft's operating systems, and have been doing so since the final bell tolled for the 8-bit world in the late 1980s pretty much indicates that what you wrote is pure nonsense. Steve Jobs has his place in history, no doubt, but Bill Gates' role, particularly for that twenty year period from the mid-70s into the mid-90s is a primary one in the development of modern consumer and business computing.
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In other words, comparing them to Microsoft is pretty baseless.
If that's because you think it's pretty clear that Apple's been worse for a while, I agree with you.
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So "freedom" and "open" will always be around and available for the people who want it. And I'm glad that's the case. But for me and right now, I'd rather have computers and devices that just work and do so well. If that means they are so-called "closed", then so be it.
I don't think you are fully appreciating what "openness" means. We are not just talking about "open source" or "open standards" here.
You think you do not care about openness? How would you like to be charged by the CPU-minute to use a computer?
Re:This is a sad day for the tech world (Score:5, Insightful)
But realistically, he took the whole open platforms and devices to really bad direction with the closeness of iOS and maybe upcoming Macs.
Apple shareholders would beg to differ.
What a coincidence! Standard Oil's shareholders said the same thing back in the day....
Color me leery when people start equating "makes lots of money for a limited number of rich people" with "doing the right thing."
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Why exactly is the resignation of any CEO, of any company, 'sad' news? I don't wish him ill, but I don't see how this is sad at all. Times change, people change, employees (yes even CEO's) come and go. It's just business.
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I think it's probably seen as sad in this case because it's assumed that if Jobs has felt the need to resign, it is because his health is deteriorating. Probably terminally.
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Why exactly is the resignation of any CEO, of any company, 'sad' news? I don't wish him ill, but I don't see how this is sad at all. Times change, people change, employees (yes even CEO's) come and go. It's just business.
Because in this case it means it his health is deteriorating.
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Wrong. You know who designed all those products, created them? Not Steve Jobs. I'm sure he has input, but ultimately he is propped up to be the godlike driving force behind Apple, which is nothing resembling the truth. Possibly the best thing to happen out of this will be to see the next Apple product (discounting what was in the pipeline while Jobs was at the helm) be of the same exact quality as what they're making now, and watch people's astonished reactions when they realize that in truth, Steve Jobs ha
Re:This is a sad day for the tech world (Score:5, Insightful)
but I don't see how this is sad at all.
The most probable reason for this particular change is that Steve's health is failing; and this announcment is a proxy for "Guys, I'm not going to be ok."
Re:This is a sad day for the tech world (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:This is a sad day for the tech world (Score:5, Insightful)
Steve Jobs is the embodiment of the American Dream, there are scant few individuals on this earth than can attest to the scale of success that he has achieved.
Jobs is arguably the best business leader of our era.
He co-founded the hugely successful Apple out of the proverbial garage, got fired from his own company, went off and started NeXT, bought Pixar from George Lucas and turned it into something big. At the same time, he came back to Apple, made a huge hit with the iMac, then the iPod, then the iPhone, and now the iPad. Now Apple one of the most successful companies around. I'm not sure if any other business leader's accomplishments could beat that story.
What impresses me is, as others have said, he actually cared about the products his company made. He wanted to make a "dent in the universe" and he actually did. He didn't do it by managing to costs or other things that business schools tell people to do, but by putting products and the user experience first.
Re:This is a sad day for the tech world (Score:4, Funny)
Jack Welch, Steve Jobs, man just imagine what those guys could have accomplished with an MBA?
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Do you want to resign at the top or the bottom? If popularity and public perception of you is important, you'd say the top. You'll want your successes to define you, not your failures. You'll want others to know you at your best, not at your worst.
Alas, while Steve Jobs certainly knows all of this, I think his resignation may be more due to his health than any matter of perception. Being CEO is a stressful job, and having remained as CEO all this time was not really doing his already-unwell body any favors.
Re:This is a sad day for the tech world (Score:5, Funny)
I don't know how you did it, but you seem to have forgotten about this device called the iPod. Yeah, it brought PMPs to the mainstream. Apple sold a metric butt-load of them and made a mint in the process. Oh yeah, they also created an iTunes store, sold over 10,000,000,000 songs and other related media, and now sells more music than anyone else on the planet, including Walmart.
iOS and iPhone didn't save Apple, it catapulted them from ludicrously successful to can't-talk-I'm-having-too-many-orgasms-all-the-time successful.
Ha, history fail (Score:4, Informative)
Apple also bought NeXT from Jobs for millions, and it became the Mac OS.
Oh, and this thing he bought called "Pixar" for $5M? He turned it into the most successful movie studio in history, and sold it for like $6 billion.
Epic history fail.
Re:This is a sad day for the tech world (Score:5, Insightful)
do you really think he'd resign if his health was 100%? The fact that he's stepping down is definitely worrying, it's not likely he's stepping down to go work for another company or doing something else.
And no, I don't know him in person, but I definitely respect him and his accomplishments, and wish him well, and I'm sure a lot of others are feeling the same way.
Re:This is a sad day for the tech world (Score:4, Interesting)
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I wouldn't use OSX if you paid me (though I would if the only alternative were Windows), and I loathe the whole iPlayskool aesthetic and hype, BUT
1) Steve Jobs is a human being and this does not bode well for his health, and
2) In an economy which now rewards people with fortunes for manipulating other peoples' money and creating absolutely nothing useful, Jobs has been a true visionary with the guts to actually build things that people can use. He's a rare bird in these parts, possibly the last of a breed.
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Maybe because not only was he a hugely influential person in the computer age, he is also suffering from health issues?
Re:This is a sad day for the tech world (Score:5, Insightful)
It's not Carly Fiorina coming in and fucking up HP for a few years and leaving - Steve Jobs started the company, worked there ~10 years, left for a few, then came back and was CEO for 14 more. No other CEO on the planet is so closely associated with their company. As a pillar of the tech industry, his input drove the state of the art forward. It is a loss for the tech world when any big name leaves for good. By the way, this website is called Slashdot, and its a place for "News for Nerds," you know, people who generally care about technology.
Re:This is a sad day for the tech world (Score:4, Funny)
>>...it doesn't look good
Don't worry. When he dies, Jobs will become more powerful than you could possibly imagine.
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He already did the Obi-Wan Gandalf Jesus thing, remember, when he came back to Apple and saved their bacon after they fired him.
Jobs proved once and for all that F. Scott Fitzgerald was full of shit when he said something to the effect of "There are no second acts in American success stories," but it's pretty clear there isn't going to be a third, at least not this time.
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There has already been a third act, Apple 2. Act 2 was Pixar, you know, the little animation company. One could even argue that NeXT was another act, although that could be seen as part of the third act.
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I think Steve Jobs' greatest innovations are what he removed from the products his company produced, not what he added to them.
So... (Score:5, Funny)
Will the Turtleneck of Power be passed on to Cook?
Or will it instead be enshrined in a glass case at Apple HQ?
Re:So... (Score:5, Funny)
Will the Turtleneck of Power be passed on to Cook?
Or will it instead be enshrined in a curved glass case at Apple HQ?
fixed.
Now that WebOS is Gone, Jobs can relax (Score:2)
Take it easy... didn't want to work himself into an early grave.
And in other news, the iPhone 5... (Score:5, Funny)
is rumoured to have Flash, USB ports, AND a 3.5" floppy disk.
Re:And in other news, the iPhone 5... (Score:5, Funny)
Picture of the upcoming iphone 5. [wordpress.com]
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I have removable media on my phone.
that was fast (Score:2)
it usually takes weeks for news to get here, erm Slashdot may be turning a point multiple stories withing minutes of happening the last few days
To Quote Obi-Wan (Score:3, Funny)
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Re:To Quote Obi-Wan (Score:5, Funny)
I said "FIRST PSOT!!!!" and was trying to think how to use HTML formatting to link to a relevant XKCD before I realized it was a conversation and not slashdot. But it's okay, I'm safely back in Mom's basement now.
Loved his work or hated it, he was big (Score:5, Insightful)
Sincerely,
Apple fans everywhere
Tomorrow is another day (Score:2, Informative)
Apple will continue. They still have strong leadership, Jobs will be chairman, and progress will continue. It's not like they're suddenly going to stop making Macbooks, iPhones, and iPads.
If I were into buying stocks, I'd watch to see whether APPL takes much of a dive, and get ready to buy.
Re:Tomorrow is another day (Score:4, Insightful)
You're under the assumption that nobody can drive a tech company like Jobs. If that is the case, even a very ill Steve would be better than a fully healthy somebody else. But that may not be good for Steve.
The one thing Steve brought to Apple was the last details that are often missing from products. You may not like the iPhone lockdown or Macs or whatnot, but to ignore where smartphones and tablets are today, you have to admit that AAPL was THE driving force behind those products. THEY got it right, first time, out of the box.
The end of an era (Score:4, Insightful)
Steve's impact on the world (Score:5, Insightful)
While Xerox PARC did the original GUI environment, and invented little things like the Mouse, Steve's vision with the Mac changed the computer world. It made computer accessible, influencing Windows and other OSs to make their system accessible to the masses.
Apple, Next, Pixar, Mac, iPod, iPhone, iPads.
I believe Steve made the world better.
Re:Steve's impact on the world (Score:5, Informative)
not again...
NO.
Xerox PARC *DID NOT* "do" the original GUI environment. Doug Engelbart (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Engelbart) did it at SRI.
Xerox PARC *DID NOT* invent the mouse. Engelbart did it also at SRI.
People overestimate PARC's importance, downright ignore Engelbart and underestimate Apple's contributions (when they don't say that Jobs & co. "stole" from Xerox)... this cheeses me off royally. /rant
Re:Steve's impact on the world (Score:5, Informative)
"Xerox PARC *DID NOT* invent the mouse. Engelbart did it also at SRI."
Um, Telefunken had a mouse with a ball before Engelbart had his with the wheels. That is, the German mouse was already like the (mechanical) mice we have today. See http://www.oldmouse.com/mouse/misc/telefunken.shtml [oldmouse.com]
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Let's take seriously the opinion of someone who uses the term "iCrap." As for Woz, he's a goofball who just wants to ride around and play polo on his Segway.
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Even if Macs are expensive, they popularized the idea of a consumer-friendly UI, and the GUI in general. Xerox may have invented the GUI, but without Jobs it would have sat in a lab for who knows how long. He brought it to the masses, and made computers something even non-nerds used on a regular basis. Even if they weren't his computers that they used.
Woz was a better engineer. No question. Jobs had the ability to take a vision of a product, give it to the engineers, and have them make it a reality. A
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That's weird, I believe Woz made the world better.
Yes, Woz is an amazing engineer, and Jobs is a sales guy. But Jobs had the vision that Woz lacked. If Jobs hadn't convinced Woz to join him in founding Apple, Woz would have remained just another engineer at HP or wherever. The truth is that everything that Apple has done has been the vision of Jobs (except during the exile years when Apple had no vision). Jobs just needed a good engineer to implement his vision of what personal computing should be. In the beginning, that was Woz. In Apple 2.0, that has bee
Re:Steve's impact on the world (Score:5, Insightful)
It was designer Steve Jobs that focused on the systematic problems of computer usage that changed the world.
What on God's green earth are you talking about? Steve Jobs was not the one who saw a problem with the corporate vision of computing-as-a-utility. Wozniak was the one who aligned with people like Lee Felsenstein and the Homebrew Computer Club, and Wozniak was the one who designed PCs that people wanted. Steve Jobs did not envisioned the GUI interface, the mouse, video games, WYSIWYG, tablets, PDAs, smartphones, or anything else that has made Apple a successful company.
Steve Jobs has two talents: the ability to see what products can be marketed, and the ability to market those products to home computer users. He is not a designer of anything other than good business plans.
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>Steve Jobs did not envisioned the GUI interface, the mouse, video games, WYSIWYG, tablets, PDAs, smartphones, or anything else that has made Apple a successful company.
But he made them popular.
Creativity is nothing without execution. PARC had all this neat shit and basically predicted the future of where computing was headed, including tablet computers, but Xerox sat on it.
Henry Ford didn't invent the automobile, but he made them popular. Jobs and Woz both deserve as much credit as Ford.
Anything less
execution is NOT marketing (Score:4, Insightful)
You must have missed the part where I gave Jobs credit for his marketing talent.
He didn't miss that part. It was simply wrong.
Oh sure Jobs has some marketing talent. But far more than that, he has the ability to EXECUTE a product.
That means taking raw technologies and forming them into something people actually want to buy. It means betting on the right technologies for a long lasting platform, or having the skill to make what you picked work for you (really a mixture of both).
Marketing is the very tiny tip of the iceberg where you try to get through to people what you have actually made. But it doesn't help at all unless people want to buy what you have made. You can't market a bad product from a cold start with no rep, and unless you have built up a good reputation over time with products people have liked using they are not going to trust that your product is what you say it is.
Jobs is also really good at being willing to move on to new frontiers instead of simply milking what they have to death. That is what I think he spent to most time trying to drill into Cook and other Apple execs, hopefully the message has got through.
Enjoy a happy retirement (Score:5, Insightful)
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High standards is the lesson (Score:5, Insightful)
I'm rather saddened by this news. Jobs' attention to detail and intolerance of crap amazes and inspires me.
It's simple, really. We should all have such high standards, perhaps then the world would be full of more exquisite and useful things.
It's all about timing and execution (Score:3)
We know why he resigned (health). Competition will continue as normal, Apple will do its thing as a company. Business as usual.
The contributions, whether agreeable as successes or failures amounts to a wealth of experience that he has given to the tech community deserves recognition.
I think all we can say is "thanks Steve, good luck, and live well, you deserve it."
We'll miss ya, but thanks for the past and next yr (Score:5, Insightful)
End of an era. I started with an Apple ][+ and am typing this on my iPad 2. These definitely been ups and downs, and I still love the old NeXTStep OS.
On the plus side, it looks like the short term (next 1-2 years) is taken care of.
iPhone5-cross carrier
iPad3
The new paradigm machines due out later this year (not sure what this is besides an A5 ultralight/ultra cheap)
AppleTV becomes a game console.
Live well, Steve. You may have been pompous and arrogant, but you cared about the design.
Simple. (Score:3)
Best CEO ever.
Not so fast... (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Lemme be the frist to say: (Score:5, Funny)
No, buy. I'm going full-in. I'll be an millionaire.
So, you're telling us your a billionaire then?
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* He has left before off and on to little effect.
hahaha.. clearly you don't remember what happen when he left before and the company needed to be saved my Microsoft?
* Jobs has worked hard to instill a corporate culture with the same values he shares, and not just at the top levels...
Yeah, but it takes continues energy to keep it the same. Will that exist with Jobs gone? history shows it won't.
* Most importantly, as good as Jobs is Ive is probably as much or more responsible for the designs we think of as be
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Why, that sounds just like the time that Apple still had over a billion in the bank and Microsoft paid them off to settle a copyright infringement case.
The copyright infringement was not look and feel, but code stolen by a third party company on behalf of Intel/Microsoft. Quicktime code knowingly ended up in Media Player which was shipping at that point.
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Re:What happens next? (Score:5, Insightful)
"Then, maybe, just maybe, I could consider buying a Mac. But then again, more factories like Foxconn wouldn't exactly be great."
Right. Because those Foxconn components in your Dell, HP, or Lenovo PC, or Android phone are made by the *not* evil Foxconn. You know, the one in Iowa where everyone makes UAW level wages, gets free health care and plenty of paid time off.....
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Yes, because being "hacker-friendly" is what the mainstream public wants from Apple products.
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I know you're a dumb troll, but Slashdot has actually turned sharply against Apple since Android came out. Basically, the site is opposed to any of Google's direct competitors, even if they once admired them.