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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..."
fact is apple needs a successor.
I don't think Bill Gates is doing anything important right now...
Don't rush me, Sonny. You rush a miracle man, you get rotten miracles.
I heard he mined the minerals and metals himself. Smelted and forged them. Used his own personal laser pointer to hand cut every chip. Speaks in code to a special computer that compiles it on the fly. And then hand assembles each and every Apple devise.
How will they carry on without him?
What happened to you apple you used to be cool?
I mean seriously.
Don't think of it as a flame---it's more like an argument that does 3d6 fire damage
If Apple just want to get big among costumers all they need to do is to start selling the OS and applications for any computer
I agree. The "one size fits all" mentality, that seems to be the norm at Apple, is instantly shot down in the costume industry.
Hans Reiser's going to be doing nothing twiddling his thumbs for the next few years as well....
Steve IS Jesus!
Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens
case in point ;)
I think Microsoft and Apple have been looking forward to this day for a long time. Think about it Silverlight sounds so shiny, iTunes only needs to change one letter to become iZunes, and this way Microsoft won't need to program their OS for that pesky extra mouse button.
We are the Borg...
Steve's younger brother, Raul, has taken over day to day operations.
You see? You see? Your stupid minds! Stupid! Stupid!
I smell a fanboy. I bet you will love this recently revealed CES innovation.
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Hans Reiser's going to be doing nothing twiddling his thumbs for the next few years as well....
Cool, Apple will finally be able to overcome the pesky filesystem limitations that have been holding the iPod back ;)
I want peace on earth and goodwill toward man.
We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.
Imagine that: Bill Gates became Apple's CEO. Then he brings his old company for a merge. Completing the utopia, a joint venture with Google will form the mighty GooAppleSoft.
WOOOOSH!
Am I eval()? - http://www.monst3r.com.br
Simply amazing. One Apple fan praises Apple because it "does what he wants and more", the next comes in to someone countering that with examples of products that do more at a lower price with "well, less features is good!
No, fewer features does not decrease usability, necessarily, and the point is moot because most people with Ipods don't seem to have even considered or looked at the competition to even determine if it has greater usability or not. If usability was such a big deal then people wouldn't buy a product locked-in to iTunes. Seriously, there's no excuse for that; many if not most other music players have simple drag-and-drop functionality.
Let me compare the mp3 players to give you an example of what they have that Ipods do not. Many mp3 players, such as the Zen, Fuze, and Cowon D2 have SDHC/micoSDHC expandability. I guess having an expandability makes it harder to use?
Having FM Tuners makes them more difficult to use?
Simple voice recorders?
In some, ogg and flac support...?!
Having some other features does not make them more difficult to use. Just read the reviews, many of these mp3 players are easy to use. I own a Fuze and it's not at all difficult. Of course, you haven't even read the reviews, have you? I'm betting you're talking out of your ass.
The fact that you even need to bring up "winning form factor and styling" as being superior over features says a lot. I really do think that's "styling" is what gets you, that Apple-logo on the product. Other music players have similar styles or are just as easy to use.
If there's one man who could replace Jobs when he decides to leave / retire, it's Guy Kawasaki.
"The more corrupt the state, the more it legislates." - Tacitus
Or AppleSoftGoo.
On second thought, ewwww!
-dZ.
Carol vs. Ghost
He'll be free real soon now. Everybody rants that Apple's success is dependent on Jobs. If Apple continues to deliver blockbuster products, despite having George W. Bush as CEO, that will prove them wrong, and that Apple as a company is strong, despite of who is at the helm.
If Apple craters, we can all blame it on Bush.
Schroedinger's Brexit: The UK is both in and out of the EU at the same time!
Do the people on the street buying Apple really know who Jobs is?
Of course. After a few movies, and doing that NBC show ED, he's been in a junkload of popular commercials with that guy from the Daily Show.
---"What did I say that sounded like 'Tell me about your day?'"---
At last, someone capable of giving the iPhone the killer app it's been missing all this time!
He's coming back (according to his note) at the end of June. That doesn't come to 6 months, more like 5 and some change, depending on the actual date he comes back.
That brings new meaning to the term iPod killer.
Micrapoogle
GooAppleSoft
GAS? I don't know if that'd pass the marketing execs smell test. Baa Dum Ching. I keed, I keed.
"Educate the mind but never at the expense of the soul."~Blessed Basil Moreau
Gooplesoft.
"You can either have software quality or you can have pointer arithmetic, but you cannot have both at the same time."
Steve needs to be using the iPotty, with RSS feed.
I drank what? -- Socrates
Does your dick look good in a turtleneck? Does your dick always provide "one more thing" right at the end? Can your dick keep a conference room of people enthralled for hours at a time? Is your dick anal retentive?
If so, I would like to meet your dick.
why yes it does thank you, comes with it's own turtleneck.
A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing. Emo Philips