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Apple's Life After Steve Jobs

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the cut-the-turtleneck-budget-in-half dept.

animusCollards writes "Slate ponders a post-Steve Jobs Apple, including possible successors, and the future is... boring. '..it's certainly true that Jobs' style is central to the company's brand and the fierce connection it forges with its customers. His product announcements prompt hundreds of millions of dollars worth of free press coverage and whip up greater and more loyal fans, generating ever-greater interest in the company. ... At some point, all that will end. Jobs will eventually leave the company. There are no obvious plans for succession; in addition to Schiller, observers finger Tim Cook, Apple's COO, and Scott Forstall, who helped develop Mac OS X and the iPhone's software, as contenders for the job. But Tuesday's keynote illustrated how difficult it will be for any of those guys to replace Jobs.'"

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  1. Jobs leaving? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Jobs will eventually leave the company? I thought he was immortal. Damn you reality distortion field!

  2. Re:Really? by eln · · Score: 5, Funny

    How did Tuesdays Keynote illustrate 'how difficult it will be for any of those guys to replace Jobs.'? Just a bloggers opinion, nothing to see here, please move along

    None of them look good in a black turtleneck. It's a little-known fact that Steve Jobs has not run Apple for some time now. Rather, the turtleneck is firmly in charge. If it can't find a suitable host when Jobs kicks the bucket, the company is doomed.

  3. You know the economy is getting bad by thetorpedodog · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...when even Apple is forced to consider the possibility of losing Jobs.

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  4. I am the very model of a iPod fashion follower by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I am the very model of an iPod fashion follower,
    My waist is getting thinner but my head is getting hollower,
    I know the name of every Mac, in Apple stores a wallower,
    And at the MacWorld every year I tell Steve I'm a swallower.
    (Yes at the MacWorld every year he tells Steve he's a swallower)

  5. Steve Jobs has been dead since 1988 by Gizzmonic · · Score: 5, Funny

    Steve Jobs died in a car wreck in 1988. The current "Steve Jobs" is San Jose session musician, Roland Trisk. Trisk, who often doubled for Steve Jobs before his death in sales meetings and conferences, had plastic surgery in order closely resemble Jobs. There are hints everywhere-in the enclosure of the Mac LCII, the first NeXT CUBE, even Pixar's first full-length film, Toy Story. Wake up people! The truth is out there!

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  6. Pixar to the rescue by goombah99 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Why do you think Jobs bought Pixar? to make cartoons? No they are working to cross the uncanny divide where live action animated figures are indistinguishable from humans. They will just have an all digital Jobs up there in a few years presenting the products and you will never know.

    Indeed maybe they already have. Jobs maybe is not ill but actually just an early version like Tom Hanks in Polar express.

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