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Larry Ellison Believes Apple Is Doomed

Posted by timothy on from the in-the-long-run-we're-all-doomed dept.

Nerval's Lobster writes "Oracle CEO Larry Ellison thinks that Apple will collapse without Steve Jobs at the helm. In a televised interview with CBS News, scheduled to air August 13, Ellison called the deceased Jobs 'brilliant' and compared him to iconic creators such as Thomas Edison and Pablo Picasso. When asked about Apple's future now that Jobs is dead, Ellison didn't hold back: 'We already know, we saw — we conducted the experiment, it's been done.' Raising his hand above his head, presumably to indicate the rise of Apple's fortunes during Jobs' initial reign, Ellison said: 'We saw Apple with Steve Jobs.' Then he lowered his hand: "We saw Apple without Steve Jobs." In other words, the period following Jobs' ouster, when the company's revenues declined and it launched whole portfolios of consumer products that failed. 'We saw Apple with Steve Jobs,' Ellison continued, raising his hand above his head again — this time, to suggest that incandescent period following Jobs' return to the company, when it released the iPod, iPhone, iPad, and a variety of bestselling PCs. 'And now, we're going to see Apple without Steve Jobs,' he finished, and his hand fell."

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  1. CEO badmouths competitor & tries to demoralize by iggymanz · · Score: 5, Funny

    later, a bear eats fish and takes a dump in the woods. Story at 10

  2. CEOs are overrated by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    When Jobs was ousted they went from a $1 billion a year revenue company to a $10 billion a year company a few years later. It was Sculley's ouster that doomed Apple ;)

    1. Re:CEOs are overrated by TWiTfan · · Score: 4, Funny

      Hush, you fool! The hipsters might hear you!

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  3. Re:CEO badmouths competitor & tries to demoral by 93+Escort+Wagon · · Score: 5, Funny

    Apple hates java maybe?

    Apple can get in line behind the rest of us.

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  4. Re:CEO badmouths competitor & tries to demoral by jaymz666 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Oracle hates java...

  5. Re:CEO badmouths competitor & tries to demoral by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    If only a bear would eat Ellison, but unfortunately bears have too good a taste to eat sacks of shit.

  6. Re:He's right - Android is eating iOS's lunch by lactose99 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Sync directly with the bloatware and usability mess that is iTunes?

    (note that some consider this a significant benefit)

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  7. Re:CEO badmouths competitor & tries to demoral by mrclisdue · · Score: 5, Funny

    Apple stands behind no one. It would cast a shadow on the shiny.

  8. Now I have TMBG stuck in my head by runeghost · · Score: 5, Funny
    Oracle man, Oracle man

    Oracle man hates Java man
    They have a fight, Oracle wins
    Oracle man

    1. Re:Now I have TMBG stuck in my head by Immerial · · Score: 5, Funny

      Is he a platform? Is he an app?
      When there's a 0-day, does he get patched?
      Or does the DB get hacked instead?
      Nobody knows, Oracle Man.

  9. Re:Oracle is not a competitor. by sunsurfandsand · · Score: 5, Funny

    I can't think of any Oracle product that competes with Apple.

    Oracle 12 and MySQL 5 compete with Apple's Filemaker.

  10. Re:He's right - Android is eating iOS's lunch by Dogtanian · · Score: 5, Funny

    I have 24 k items, mostly lossless audio

    You have "24 k" items? I guess you could say that your music collection was...

    (puts on sunglasses)

    ...solid gold.

    YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!

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