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How Apple Could Survive Without Steve Jobs

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the on-a-mountain-of-money dept.

ThousandStars writes "The Wall Street Journal asks How Apple Could Survive Without Steve Jobs: 'Speculation about the continued reign of Mr. Jobs — which has popped up from time to time since his 2004 treatment for cancer — underscore how closely Apple's fashion-setting products are identified with its co-founder.'"

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  1. I'm glad I didn't recently buy any Apple stock... by bytethese · · Score: 5, Interesting

    While initially it may go down with any news of him leaving Apple, I think the talent pool they have is great.

    Whoever should succeed Jobs should be very aware of this talent pool and be sure to keep things running as smoothly as possible to ensure a bright future. In essence I wouldn't be too worried about Apple being Jobs-less.

  2. About as well as Disney survived with Walt by theaveng · · Score: 5, Interesting

    i.e. Not well at all. They company floundered from 1967 to around 1987 until a new CEO with vision arrived on the scene.

    I suspect Apple would do the same, gradually returning to a state akin to how it was in the early 90s. Ultimately it might end-up in the same state as Commodore (which also lost its visionary CEO and slowly but surely died-out).

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  3. Re:Absolutely not! by Al+Dimond · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I think you have a narrow view of "real advances". The job of most devices is to be useful for their users. Often the real bottleneck for people getting things done with computers or similar devices is in the device's interface. If research and development work goes into making those interfaces better people will actually get more done. Tab completion, for example, is just polish on the old shell, but it saves me a lot more time entering many commands than a new processor would save my computer in executing them. Often a drag-and-drop GUI would save me even more.

    I don't own a single Apple product, as it happens, and usually when I comment on Apple articles I get flamed for supposedly hating on Apple. I, probably like you, think that no product or company deserves love or devotion; I save those things for my friends and family. I think a lot of Apple fans misinterpret that attitude for malice. You're not wrong because you hate Apple, you're wrong because you don't appreciate the importance of user-facing design.