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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..."
I wonder how many people at Apple will now fall in love with Weird Al's song Pancreas [http://www.vh1.com/video/play.jhtml?artist=508993&vid=149207] !
To me, Apple products do everything I need and more
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.
Take Ipods for instance. Why buy a nano when you can buy a Sansa Fuze, Creative Zen, or Cowon D2?
Haha, I say this all the time, but if people went on features and price (what they probably would truly want if they paid attention) they would NOT be chosing ipods.
Apple "fanboys" are so silly because so much of Apple is marketing, marketing, and more marketing and not some super magical quality of the products. Maybe OS X is nice (I don't use it, so I can't comment) but the other products themselves are very overpriced and lack features and aren't much easier to use than competing products. Again, compare Ipods to many other MP3 players on the market. Ipods are more "hip" and "cool" to college-aged chumps which is why they sell; people who look and buy on features etc do not generally choose ipods.
Bla bla, yada yada.
Fact: Plenty of OSes for regular x86s is reasonable stable, even Windows is.
Fact 2: Plenty of OS X hacks run just as stable as a real mac.
Fact 3: I have a real mac and Safari still runs like shit.
Last Leopard upgrade didn't booted on some Macbook Pros because they didn't had the latest firmware didn't it?
Yeah, if you buy unsupported hardware it won't work, big deal? That don't make them more unstable, just not supported.
Yeah, regarding other software most of it exist because Apple bought it, killed the Windows version and improved the mac version to make mac exclusive titles.
Some of them are huge titles among professionals and some could probably become somewhat used among more normal users to, so things like final cut, logic, aperture and so on would probably still be able to hold Apple over the surface even if things went really bad for them with the loss of Steve.
Yeah!!!! They should get together and rename the company ORANGE!!!!
Well...actually, too many Oranges gives my kid Diarrhea. Maybe...Bannana, they are too soft. Strawberry? Too small. Give me your ideas!!