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?"

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Socialism?

[Anonymous Coward]

Apple After Jobs

I don't know what will happen to Apple after they abolish all their jobs. I gotta imagine it'd be something like pure socialism with people just doing whatever they feel like at the company and getting just enough to get by. No jobs at Apple would probably be a pretty bad move ... how would I start working there?

I think so

[elrous0]

Surely there must be an unemployed cult leader out there capable of taking over. Maybe Warren Jeffs could do some kind of work release program.

Not to worry

[Number6.2]

he has already transitioned the day-to-day operation to his younger brother, Raúl.

Oh, wait a minute, that's Cuba...

Re:Not to worry

[nomadic]

he has already transitioned the day-to-day operation to his younger brother, Raúl.

Come on, that's not fair, Castro and Jobs are plenty different. One is a maniacal, autocratic, narcissistic dictator/zealot who rules his followers with an iron fist and who is admired only by scruffy underemployed socialists who spend all their time in coffee shops, and the other was president of Cuba.

Job's absence

[jez9999]

Can Apple continue innovating in Job's absence?

Wow! I knew Apple were early starters, but I had no idea they were operating in Biblical times!

Meh...

[bmo]

We need to start tagging stories like this with "paul is dead"

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BMO

Re:Innovate...

[hobbit]

#> tar -czvf back.tar.gz *.*

If you're currently backing up to the same volume as what you're backing up, you might just one day find out that Time Machine is an innovation ;P

Re:Come on, guys.

[Kent Recal]

Just for reference, and here's the creative brain behind most of Microsoft's success products.

Steve is a dead man, miss him miss him miss him

[wardk]

I heard that while playing my OS X install disk backwards

Re:Come on, guys.

[Dogtanian]

HP is also quite popular for their laptops

Not to mention their workstations.

But HP's sauce is the best of all!