Tuumble
Thursday 6th October 2011 10:44am [Edited]
Peterborough
4,491 posts
I wrote the following draft article on my writing course on 31 August. In light of what happened to Steve yesterday, it does send a bit of chill down the spine...
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Steve Jobs - Does it matter that he's no longer at Apple?
I don't care that Steve Jobs has stepped down as CEO of Apple and neither should you.
He may be a visionary and Apple products may have changed your life in small way but he's gone - deal with it!
Steve Jobs resignation as CEO of Apple seems to have got the technology money men worried as shares have been sent into a tail spin. While he may have set up the company as a university upstart back in the 70s to see it grow to one of the most talked about companies in the world, its entire future can't rest on the slim shoulders of one man.
Jobs and Apple products have had a major impact in the way we live our lives today. The style and panache of the laptops, the iPhone and iPad et al are all very nice and shiny, and they do have the effect making us feel a little bit better about ourselves, but was it him the made them all from his garage? Of course not.
Apple is a massive organisation and developers have been falling over themselves to be part of the fruity revolution. The idea that once the figurehead is no longer around that these highly skilled professionals will run to their mummy crying is absurd.
The board at Apple cannot hide behind Steve Jobs forever and they are fools if they ever felt they could. It says more about them that they thought that if anything did go wrong it would be Jobs, not them, that would have take the heat. Maybe they're just too worried that their iTech nest egg is going to disappear with him.
Steve Jobs is treated as a God by many a geek but he's not immortal. In this industry more than any other Apple knows this - change follows change follows change. Will his departure make a difference? As long as the new bosses stick to the company ethos then Apple will simply go form strength to strength.
