$76 billion dollars in the bank.
If Apple had announced they were going to spend it all to make Steve well again, would would have protested?
Somewhere in here is a lesson on the price of immortality.
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#32Earlier quoted context omitted.
Interestingly, he still seems interested in serving on the board of directors. This would make me think he is just tired of being CEO and it this play doesn't have to do with his health.
No one really 'beats' pancreatic cancer. http://www.pancreatic.org/site/c.htJYJ8MPIwE/b.891917/k.5123...
As cancer survivors tend to say, the only way you know if you've beaten cancer is when you die of something else.
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#33Fuck all those WSJ assholes with their "SELL SELL SELL" comments.
The market will fuck them just fine. Give it a week or two.
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#34The true test of Steve's legacy will be whether Apple can continue in the image he molded for it well beyond his departure. Great CEO's are felt for a long time after they leave.
It will have to change. There's a certain amount of "Steveness" that just can't be learned or absorbed.
I expect Apple's aggressiveness, not to lessen, but to even out a bit.
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#35Re: Steve Jobs Resigns as Apple CEO (Official Letter)
#36The true test of Steve's legacy will be whether Apple can continue in the image he molded for it well beyond his departure. Great CEO's are felt for a long time after they leave.
That's a nice sentiment, but I think Steve Jobs has already done more than enough to establish himself as the Greatest Business Leader of All Time. No hyperbole, I mean that quite literally and seriously.
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#37$76 billion dollars in the bank. If Apple had announced they were going to spend it all to make Steve well again, would would have protested? Somewhere in here is a lesson on the price of immortality.
I find your thought very interesting, care to elaborate?
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#38Fuck all those WSJ assholes with their "SELL SELL SELL" comments.
The market will fuck them just fine. Give it a week or two.
Exactly. Given that Apple has performed well while Jobs was out on medical leave for significant parts of the last three years, it seems as though Apple can do well without him at the helm. And building an organization that can survive after the leader departs is a real accomplishment.
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#39$76 billion dollars in the bank. If Apple had announced they were going to spend it all to make Steve well again, would would have protested? Somewhere in here is a lesson on the price of immortality.
No amount of riches would have saved the life of Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany. At the time we didn't have the medical technology to treat hemophilia. Likewise, if the technology existed to make Steve Jobs healthy, it would have been used by now.
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#40I'll be interested to see if 10 years from now Apple has stayed true in hardware quality or if they sink to EMachines-like quality levels.
Jony Ive is still there right? Look at how he's progressed from the toilet seat portable, to the Pismos, to the Luxo iMac, to the white iMac, to the unibodies.
Sure Steve was there, praising and berating, but I doubt Steve himself would have come up with even this aluminum slab keyboard I'm typing on right now, though I'm sure he loved it when Ive and his team brought it in.
Apple has likely had long enough to assemble people that share the vision, that Apple design should evolve towards ever greater things. The iPhone was a huge lesson, that even now, and it's always now, there's room to shake something up with better design, vision and software.