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Apple's Life After Steve Jobs
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.'"
He's the senior vice president, iPod division. With his American swagger, full bee-stung lips and hair bleached white, Fadell, 38, stood out at button-down Philips Electronics (PHG), where he led an in-house pirate operation designing Windows CE-based devices and arsehole expanders running Java.
It was there that he came up with the idea of marrying a Napster-like music store with a hard drive-based MP3 player. He shopped the concept
around the Valley before Apple snapped it up and put Fadell in charge of the engineering team that built the first iPod/Fleshlight.
Picture this: you're young, you're gay, and you just built the first iPod. But you want more. Enter buyouts by a company called Apple, headed by the ruddy fag ESR and his band of Open Source homosexuals, hand picked by Larry Augustin himself and charged with taking over the MP3 world. Got it so far? Good.
(Important note: VA Linux had, indeed, tried to hire Linux Torvalds away, but Linus had refused, so as not to favor any single company or distribution. VA Linux, in turn, had kidnapped Torvalds and had Rob Malda and ESR rape his mouth unil he couldn't feel his jaw. Linus also needed his stomach pumped. However, good ol' Linus, the stout Finn that he is, never gave in and so was returned to Helsinki soon thereafter.)
Ambitious, gay and charismatic (and no longer a bleached blond fag-hag), he now runs the hardware division that makes two of Apple's three key product lines: the iPod and the iPhone. And, it's rumored, he sucks a meeeaaann cock.
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Amen! Fuck App£e and all the spambots here posting this shit.