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Apple’s Steve Jobs will be taking a medical leave of absence for the second time in two years but will remain CEO of the company, involved in strategic decision-making.
Chief Operating Officer Tim Cook will assume responsibility for the company’s day-to-day operations, amid continuing investor concerns over Apple’s plans for eventual transition in the corner office.
Whatever organ he needs now, he’ll get it at the fastest priority.
This just occurred to me:
I wonder if Gates and Balmer are smiling in their coffee right now??
It’s a given that Apple will undergo massive restructuring when Jobs is gone and that it’s competitiveness and market share may suffer.
Ah_Yea said “I wonder if Gates and Balmer are smiling in their coffee right now??”
Nope. Apple isn’t in their top 3 as a competitive threat.
jobs,
If all other tech companies follow apples lead then innovation would stop completely but all our existing tech would be more usable and less functional than it currently is.
# 22 Ah_Yea said, “a given that Apple will undergo massive restructuring when Jobs is gone and that it’s competitiveness and market share may suffer.”
Full disclosure – I am NO Apple fan.
What I expect will happen when Stevie leaves the scene is that within a couple of years there will be a huge move to make the company more profitable. To go for the bigger market share. There will be a shuffle of CEOs and finally, Apple products will see a two-tier line – top of the line, highly engineered, well-constructed gear like they produce now. AND a second tier stack of crap they will sell at Wal-Mart, Target. 7-11 and Jiffy-Lube. This will make the fanbois back off buying anything and everything Apple releases and the second-tier gear will become the mainstream. That will be the death knell for Apple.
Don’t get me wrong! I haven’t owned an Apple product since my Apple 2E (except I do have an Airport now) but I thank Stevie everyday. Without the iPod, my wonderful Creative MP3 probably would never have appeared. Without the iPhone, I’d still be using a Nokia instead of a Nexus One. Without the iPad, I wouldn’t be impatiently waiting for the right Android tablet. I fear for the progress of personal electronics once Jobs has gone from the scene and Apple just becomes a purveyor of iCrap.
Having said my piece, I’m off to Laos for a week or so. Have fun.
Ha. I was stupid tired last night.
That should have been:
Markets closed Monday when Apple announces Jobs medical leave.
Markets open Tuesday and stock drops 3-5% in early trading.
Markets close Tuesday and stock recovers to loss of 2%. Apple announces earnings and beats street estimates by $2 billion.
Markets open Wednesday and stock up 3% on open. Intraday gain ~5%. Open to open closer to 7%.
Now you pick holes in my fearless predictions.
Steve Jobs’ diet is not vegan. It is piscetarian (vegetables and fish).
http://isstevejobsdead.com/
Not good for Steve’s health. This is likely a notice of his failing health. That, as always, is sad.
This will be bad for the company but only time will tell whether it will signal Apple’s decline into insignificance or not. All predictions here are rather useless. But it is fun to speculate and with that I say, this will lead to a decline in Apple one way or another IF he dies.
I like the look and feel of their products but their failings are that you can’t do quite as much with them since you can’t really tinker easily with them AND that it’s not so much about your experience in the end but about Apple controlling your experience, which is also wrong. And by the way, for all the nice look and feel, my own experience as a tech person is that their personal computer equipment and I suspect much else has an higher than normal failure rate, making their stuff junk compared to Dell, for example, not that Dell is a clean living bunch either (remember their bad cap denials).
14.8 million iPads sold in 2010. Yup, they’re dissolving into insignificance.
I suspect that Apple’s bench is deeper than people give them credit for.
I believe that Steve is working on a plan to distribute five golden tickets, in Apple products. And…. well I guess you know where that eventually leads to. Steve Jobs II.
Steve Job’s ill again? Meh!
I don’t care how rich you are or how smart you are it is appointed to man once to die.
He will leave a record of remarkable achievement.