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So Who's Running Apple Now?
An anonymous reader writes "With Steve Jobs stepping down from heading Apple for at least six months who's running the company that he resurrected? This article names the three people who will try to keep things running. But you have to wonder whether they'll have the charisma needed to keep Apple cool..."
He had a good marketing strategy... that's all
I can't call that English
No, after Mr. Pepsi left, Steve Jobs made sure Apple was Steve Jobs, all the way to ensuring Apple had to play (and still has to play) an incredible amount of catchup, even though they were one of the pioneers in the PDA field. All to stroke the ego.
Apple will die without Steve Jobs now. Or it will change and I might actually enjoy the majority of their products.
They've been doing the same to me. They're like religious fanatics.
I also understand that Hans has a far more personal touch in dealing with his critics.
Many other products do the exact same but cost a lower price, and often with more features and at a higher quality. That's why I'm not a fan of the company.
That, and their oppressive business practices, is why I don't like Apple. They have the worst value in their products of any company out there.
Additionally, every single time they do come up with a useful or cool design (G4 iMac, G3 iPod were awesome), they wreck it in the next generation (G5 iMac, iPod G4-Touch were shit). That gets under a guy's skin. I can handle change, as long as it's for the better. With Apple, it never is.
"16MB (fuck off, MiB fascists)" - The Mighty Buzzard
Am I the only one who thinks Steve Jobs is a bit of an asshole? I'm fairly sure mac fanbois will worship whoever takes the helm as "charismatic".
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, watch it -- I'm huge!
And he's had plenty experience getting rid of jobs already!
The "Apple God" is gone... boo hoo
Meh, I've never been quite impressed with what Apple has had to offer.
All flair, not much substance in my opinion
MindlessAutomata looks to be one of the few talkin any sense here. I imagine quite of few people buy Apple products simply for the logo, without even a second thought to considering the other higher quality, and imho, more attractive alternatives
My blood hurts...
They might as well make the Apple dork from their commercials their mascot. Apple is more of form over function than anything else, so hip coffee-house hipsters can look up to him as an icon agsint the "bourgeosie" and spend money for overpriced hardware and a bad O/S simply to be the coolest kid on the street.