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By: Damion

Damion — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:14:43 +0000

I would like to disagree with you on that note. Steve Jobs return to Apple was a blessing and perceived by many Apple fans and non Apple fans as the second coming. At a time when Apple was about to go down for the count and for good, Steve Jobs was brought back in and was seen as the only bright spot left for Apple with the Next acquisition. Remember the Time magazine cover story that ran in 1997 with Steve Jobs on the cover with the quotes (paraphrase) “The world is a better place with Apple”? Steve was seen as the messiah and we were rightly so in believing that.

The pieces came together like a puzzle back then, who else was going to be able to pull a rabbit out of a magic hat?

Thank You Steve.

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By: James

James — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 09:10:32 +0000

Firstly, thank you, thank you, for my weekly IT news fix.
I may or may not like like Steve Jobs personally. As I have never met him, I obviously dont know. Well, its obvious to me anyway. What I would like to say though is that the world can do with a few more individuals. It seems to me that the world is becoming full of people who just do their job, tow the line and get by so they can pay their mortgage, knowing in their heart that where they work is going to hell and dragging the rest of the world with it. The share market is a recent example. So I say, lets have some more passion and thank God there still is a weekly cringely column.

By: Decade

Decade — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 21:49:59 +0000

R&D are one thing. R&D under Scully survived and was even able to maintain an expensive empire under Gassee. After all, Scully approved and released the Newton. Jobs was the aggressive one at cutting R&D when he returned.

Product ideas are another thing. There’s something to Paul Graham’s idea that product ideas are worthless; it’s all about execution. And you don’t really need expensive R&D to execute new products. After all, the iPod was originally based on the PortalPlayer platform.

I don’t think Apple would have made it to the 1995 crisis if Jobs were around for the previous decade. He left as a middle manager, creating little fiefdoms to the detriment of the company. He learned to leave the technical decisions to the technical people through driving a company other than Apple into the ground. (Poor Ross Perot.) I think that experience allowed him to run a company as diverse as Apple without disaster.

By: Timmy

Timmy — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 22:04:08 +0000

Steve Jobs makes overpriced boutique computers for upper middle class and rich people, not for the rest of us. To most people, Apple computers are too expensive. His marketing campaigns, trying to associate computers with famous dead people only worked on losers who believed they could identify with high achievers. Buying an Apple product does not make one a John Lennon, Einstein, Pablo Picasso, Jim Henson, or some kind of free thinking genius. It just says to others “I have money to burn on luxuries.” His products were made in sweatshops where workers were paid pennys per hour. Exploitation is not “thinking different” and would have offended the people he used in his ads. When you look at computer sales and market share worldwide, Apple’s presence is almost trivial. Just watch and see what computers Europeans and Asians choose. You really believe that EU Inc and China Inc are going to allow billions of their consumer dollars to flow out of their countries to Steve Jobs? You’re dreaming. EU Inc and China Inc are going to clamp down on foreign technology to build up their own. Apple is missing out on the notebook computer trend and will ultimately join the long list of faded brands.

By: Don’t Worry about Apple - Doe Niet Zo Moeilijk!

Don’t Worry about Apple - Doe Niet Zo Moeilijk! — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 09:32:12 +0000

[...] Niet dat ik het altijd eens ben met Cringely, maar nu even wel: Steve Jobs is an amazing chief executive, clearly the best of his era, but that doesn’t make him irreplaceable. True, he saved Apple, but now Apple is saved. The company is rich, has growing market share and a mindshare dominance envied throughout the computer AND music AND video AND mobile phone industries. Steve could die tomorrow and Apple would be fine for years to come. Apple might even be better. – Don’t Worry about Apple [...]

By: Phil

Phil — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 22:06:04 +0000

Not much unlike when Walt Disney passed away. Many didn’t know how the company would survive without him. Looking back at the CEOs since his death one can see that others can make the company successful while others cannot–but the company can survive and thrive.