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?"

Comments

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.

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