Comments on: Steve Jobs resigns as Apple CEO

By: S Blain

S Blain — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 20:22:00 +0000

I hope what you say is true. Whether or not you like Steve Jobs or Apple, it’s sad to hear that anyone is terminally ill.

Also, thanks for adding actual new information to the discussion, instead of just re-hashing three decades of Mac vs. PC arguments.

By: Daemonworks

Daemonworks — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 14:16:00 +0000

Hurray! Though he’ll be back the instant anyone in the company does anything he doesn’t personally approve of.

By: bbonyx

bbonyx — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 14:45:00 +0000

I believe that was meant for me. I’ll give you the mouse. I wasn’t specifically pointing (no pun intended) it out as an entity for which Jobs gets unnecessary credit. My citation article doesn’t even mention it, but it does mention the host of other concepts Jobs kyped directly from PARC and for which he has often been given spurious credit, along with the litigation that followed. That was my intention.

By: Tzctplus -

Tzctplus - — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 12:06:00 +0000

Sucka!

But it started with the “Apple share price plummeting” comment.

The short termism of people that know a few words about stocks and shares is utterly ridiculous.

By: petsounds

petsounds — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 01:02:00 +0000

It looks like the panic selloff I predicted here never materialized. I’m happy to be wrong about that.

By: dainel

dainel — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 00:46:00 +0000

Why are people comparing Jobs to Edison and Newton. I think it would be more apt to compare him to Bill Gates. As to why he is quitting, I don’t know if death is imminent. But maybe he’s looking at Bill Gates and thinking, “now that I’ve made Apple bigger the Microsoft, I’ll like to take it easy and enjoy my money for a while. He’s been in retirement for a few years now”.

By: robcat2075

robcat2075 — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 22:28:00 +0000

In reading articles I’m reminded that Jobs had a liver transplant a couple of years ago.

It’s possible he’s not “dying” but genuinely feels lousy and unable to do the hard-driving CEO stuff anymore.

My
boyfriend had a kidney and pancreas transplant in 1990 and had about
one really good year after that where he felt well and nine after that
where he felt sick all the time.

The drugs you have to keep
taking for the rest of your life with a transplant are basically
poisonous things and they accumulate in you and even if your
transplanted organ is doing “great”, as it was his case, the rest of you
gets worse and worse and you never feel well or healthy.

They
can try to treat the nausea or the depression or the loss of appetite or
the intestinal trouble with more drugs but there’s a limit to how well
that works and there’s no amount of positive thinking or eating right or
living life to the fullest that solves the basic problem that you’re
still really, really sick.

Jobs went on hiatus back in January
and that would fit in the basic window when this stuff starts to become a
problem for transplant patients.

So this may not be impending death, it may “just” be the reality of living with an organ transplant.

By: royaltrux

royaltrux — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 20:02:00 +0000

And Douglas Engelbart might take issue with your implication that the mouse was invented at Xerox PARC.

By: Frank W

Frank W — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 19:41:00 +0000

Just a few weeks ago, I bought myself a new laptop with Windows Seven to replace my old eMac running OS X 10.4. And installed Ubuntu on it before bedtime. Because I can’t install a newer OS X on my PPC machine. And because I can’t fork out the money for a new Mac that Apple may choose to abandon in another two years,

But mostly for political reasons. Microsoft owns Windows. Apple owns Mac OS X. Linux is of the Commons. It is ours. It’s part of a future I want to be part of.

So, happy twentieth birthday, Linux.

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2011/08/linux-turns-20-today/

By: bbonyx

bbonyx — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 19:31:00 +0000

So, in that regard, Jobs is *exactly* like Edison.

(Don’t care much for either).
Not an Apple guy, and if I were, Woz would be my hero. Some do the real work, others just laud themselves and collect credit for it.

By: bbonyx

bbonyx — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 19:27:00 +0000

I hope you're being facetious and aren't that misinformed. Meanwhile the innovators from Xerox PARC in the 60s are now rolling over in their graves (or retirement homes in the cases of the ones who are are still with us)

By: gguuss

gguuss — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 19:06:00 +0000

How about you learn what you’re talking about before you call someone out – although I agree, Apple will not bottom out unless by some fluke Tim Cook ends up being a poor replacement for Gob. To explain using the measure you gave as an example… compare the AAPL P/E to XOM – Apple looks inflated – higher P/E means higher stock value in relative to money actually earned. Apple’s /market cap/ passed Exxon, market cap does not make Apple bigger, it just means that the volume of stock that Apple has released times its value is (well, was, actually) higher than that of Exxon. This means that people think Apple’s future value is higher than Exxon, which it may be. But, this does not make Apple bigger! For example, Exxon made 22,000,000,000 before tax / depreciation / etc come in to play; in comparison, Apple made 9,000,000,000. These are really big numbers, but, no matter how you frame it, Exxon pulled in 13 billion more dollars than Apple. Just sayin.

By: MeOnBoingBoing

MeOnBoingBoing — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 18:27:00 +0000

The guys from Xerox Parc might take issue with your ludicrous assertion that Jobs invented the mouse.

By: catbusrider

catbusrider — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 18:09:00 +0000

Wow, hope no one took stock advice from these comments :p

By: Guest

Guest — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 18:00:00 +0000

no, i was going more with “the pope” and “you”

By: benher

benher — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 17:21:00 +0000

Don’t listen to him Nolan… he doesn’t know what he’s saying *gently stroking photo*

By: BarBarSeven

BarBarSeven — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 17:06:00 +0000

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By: Editz

Editz — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 16:54:00 +0000

Wizard needs food badly.

By: d m

d m — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 14:37:00 +0000

Please. Edison barely invented anything. Most of his inventions were stolen from brilliant minds like Tesla.

By: d m

d m — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 14:35:00 +0000

Well, AAPL is back up to $370 already. It looks like my savings haven’t completely disappeared.

By: fuzzmello

fuzzmello — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 14:29:00 +0000

crap. is the circle jerk over? really? already? i thought you guys would be loving it up/beating it over that second vid there until at least Friday morning.

oh well. jobs is gone again. the evil continues and will as long as you guys get off on being over charged for barely adequate hardware and phenomenal marketing.

apple is suing for gestures now. how’s that sit? gestures.

By: Kieran Manners

Kieran Manners — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 14:24:00 +0000

Haha, zero to godwin in 15 hours. I expected quicker.

By: yahoo-EV3JWBS6ARUJEHCG4DMVFFEIKU

yahoo-EV3JWBS6ARUJEHCG4DMVFFEIKU — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 14:15:00 +0000

Hitler built Germany up from the ashes of WWI into a massive Empire. It is what Empire you build that counts. Apple is not a good Empire.

By: Jonathan Demon

Jonathan Demon — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 14:05:00 +0000

I’m not sad or pissed off that Steve Jobs resigned from Apple. Actually, I’m kind of nervous…..

By: yri

yri — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 14:00:00 +0000

Whatevs. A brilliant businessman, maybe, but I wouldn’t even rate him with Edison – the latter truly invented; Jobs just reconfigured things that already existed into very salable items. As for Newton… HA times ten to the twentieth.

I hope he enjoys his retirement, and that maybe this will end the endless over-hype that Apple is heir to. ‘Tis a consummation devoutly to be wished.

By: swashbucklingmonkey

swashbucklingmonkey — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 12:13:00 +0000

final cut pro..

By: Guest

Guest — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 11:40:00 +0000

Then we agree that their financials are completely sound. Great.

By: G. Danken

G. Danken — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 07:46:00 +0000

honestly? Steve Jobs in One sentence with Edison and Newton?!

By: alphadore

alphadore — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 06:05:00 +0000

It is sad to see him go. I hope his successor will keep on innovating. God knows what we would have if Jobs didnt invent computer mouse.

By: annapaxis

annapaxis — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 05:58:00 +0000

yep. absolutely. he’s not as well known as the big man, but Ive is one of the major forces behind the apple resurgence. for those who don’t know, Ive was the principal designer of most of the badass hardware apple has put out in the last decade.