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Apple After Jobs
recoiledsnake writes "The connection between Apple and Steve Jobs is unlike any other brand and CEO relationship in corporate America, maybe the world. While Bill Gates has successfully transitioned himself away from his day job at Microsoft, can Apple do without Jobs at all? Once word started circulating that Jobs may be ill, Apple stock took a considerable hit, dropping more than $10 a share. And when Mr. Jobs was absent from last week's quarterly earnings conference call, the questions started again — and the stock fell again. What does this mean for corporate users of Apple for whom switching costs are high? Can Apple continue innovating in Job's absence?"
Hard to continue doing something you never really did to begin with.
Seriously, has Apple done anything seriously new since their original PCs? There were music players before the iPod, there were smartphones (with touchscreens!) before the iPhone, the Macbook Air should never have been made... Jobs basically takes great ideas that have already been done and stylizes them to death.
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