Apple?s Board of Directors have announced that CEO Steve Jobs has resigned his position, and the Board has named Tim Cook, previously Apple?s Chief Operating Officer, as the company?s new CEO.
Jobs has been elected Chairman of the Board and Cook will join the Board, effective immediately.
"I hereby resign as CEO of Apple . I would like to serve, if the Board sees fit, as Chairman ... [ read the full article ]
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Originally posted by Jeffrey_P: "yea by taking ideas that were already around at the time.....bringing out new ideas that were already in place (multitasking etc...) the guy is a genius when it came to Marketing.....he made Apple look like a company that had all this new tech and they were the first ones to make it....even tho it has been around a lot longer."
I believe the Apple multithreaded at the time. The Amiga did true multitasking.
Yes he is a marketing guru which I have stated in a previous thread.
Jeff
I think that particular rant was referring to when steve jobs made a big deal about adding multitasking to the iphone...long after android had it. I don't remember if he called it "magical" or not...but he did make a really big deal about it almost like it was something that he had invented personally.
...But hey, what else could he have done? It wasn't like he could say, "I was wrong and people do want to multitask, sorry for holding your devices back for such a long time."
Originally posted by KillerBug: Personally I think Steve is a piece of crap that exploits people for profit and who sues the people that he steals from for theft...but he is good at making money...and that is what a CEO should do. However, he is also a happily admitted fascist...and I like free speech.
Still, I expect Apple stock to plummet when the NYSE opens...and for good reason. Everyone still remembers how terrible Apple did before Steve came back.
To me if was so sneaky and under handed over a lot of stuff that he did, he would be a decent person. An innovator or not, two wrongs in this world don't make a right.
Originally posted by KillerBug: Personally I think Steve is a piece of crap that exploits people for profit and who sues the people that he steals from for theft...but he is good at making money...and that is what a CEO should do. However, he is also a happily admitted fascist...and I like free speech.
Still, I expect Apple stock to plummet when the NYSE opens...and for good reason. Everyone still remembers how terrible Apple did before Steve came back.
EDIT: sorry, double post
To me if was so sneaky and under handed over a lot of stuff that he did, he would be a decent person. An innovator or not, two wrongs in this world don't make a right.
