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Steve Jobs Resigns As CEO Of Apple, Tim Cook Named CEO
To the Apple Board of Directors and the Apple Community:
I have always said if there ever came a day when I could no longer meet my duties and expectations as Apple’s CEO, I would be the first to let you know. Unfortunately, that day has come.
I hereby resign as CEO of Apple. I would like to serve, if the Board sees fit, as Chairman of the Board, director and Apple employee.
As far as my successor goes, I strongly recommend that we execute our succession plan and name Tim Cook as CEO of Apple.
I believe Apple’s brightest and most innovative days are ahead of it. And I look forward to watching and contributing to its success in a new role.
I have made some of the best friends of my life at Apple, and I thank you all for the many years of being able to work alongside you.
Steve
And the official Apple press release:
Apple’s Board of Directors today announced that Steve Jobs has resigned as Chief Executive Officer, 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.
“Steve’s extraordinary vision and leadership saved Apple and guided it to its position as the world’s most innovative and valuable technology company,” said Art Levinson, Chairman of Genentech, on behalf of Apple's Board. “Steve has made countless contributions to Apple’s success, and he has attracted and inspired Apple’s immensely creative employees and world class executive team. In his new role as Chairman of the Board, Steve will continue to serve Apple with his unique insights, creativity and inspiration.”
“The Board has complete confidence that Tim is the right person to be our next CEO,” added Levinson. “Tim’s 13 years of service to Apple have been marked by outstanding performance, and he has demonstrated remarkable talent and sound judgment in everything he does.”
Jobs submitted his resignation to the Board today and strongly recommended that the Board implement its succession plan and name Tim Cook as CEO.
As COO, Cook was previously responsible for all of the company’s worldwide sales and operations, including end-to-end management of Apple’s supply chain, sales activities, and service and support in all markets and countries. He also headed Apple’s Macintosh division and played a key role in the continued development of strategic reseller and supplier relationships, ensuring flexibility in response to an increasingly demanding marketplace.
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iLulz
Finally...
First, and way more important than anything, long live Steve Jobs! Let's hope and pray he is just pulling a Bill Gates.
Second, if the stock does dive like that I am buying huge.
Don't tell me that Mr. Market did not price in a departure sometime in the next few years for a man who had pancreatic cancer and a liver transplant in the past 5 years. The company is still a steam locomotive.
All the money thats going to be taken out of AAPL will go into gold.
Damn, I just bought an iPhone. Does this mean it won't work soon?
It works now?
iSelloff, bitchez.
post your targets for tomorrow and let's see how they average out. 375
They'll be marking Jobs' departure in China by jumping out of windows...
that's evil, but i like it
No, they were doing that under his reign. Perhaps, the jumping will stop.
I'm sure many of you will want to wax philosophic about his accomplishments as a CEO. However, and as I see it, he was a massive net jobs exporter, and ultimately a financial backer of China. I never really understood why he was lauded as a great American.
I do not wish him ill, nor do I worship at his alter. But I am happy that the Apple zombies will be all flustered. Watch for "bitey" people in coming days.
I like your comment.
+1. Being head of Apple and an original Pirate of Silicon Valley suggests more of an opportunist Jobs than hero.
Great traitorous job-exporting, innovation-suppressing, bullshit-purveying, slave-employing, conman. Goodbye, you had them fooled until the end. Your brainwashed sheep just LUUUUV you. What a success you are.
I bet there are suicides.....Apple devotees are fanatic....this is the end of the world for them....the guys that wait in line for a week for a new phone...
Those "customers" who wait in line for a week are actually paid by Apple to create some hype.
Monkey see, monkey do.
I'm thinking iFanboi iMmolations.
I'm praying for them.
Got a funny looking Macintosh around '86. I was hooked. Apple's all I ever had. I think I've been spoiled.
So you didn't get suckered into that whole 'Lisa' thing?
No but my pop did. Paid 3000+ for it back in 1983. Then they immediately came out with the Mac.
That was back when 3-1/2" floppies cost about 50 bucks for 10.
I was relegated to the 8088 in the basement.
MUHAHAHA!
Because I jumped ahead of the transplant line due to my extreme wealth, I have decided to retire and enjoy the good life while the rest of the peons worry about housing, food and safety.
Justin Bateman could play Zombie Jobs in Zombie Land II.
i never really unerstood why the shareholders and traders levitated that bloodthirsty psycopath to the heights they did. I guess as long as the stock kept going up nobody cared what Apple did. Hopefully the world's greatest shipper of overpriced chinese made crap will sink faster than the Lucetania.
Suck it iCrap loving morons. Your god is gone.
We tell you our product is cool so now you must buy it. You do want to be cool, don't you?
You wish it were that way.
The product was cool. The product is still cool. Everyone else has been trying to catch up with cool. And mostly failing.
It's a free market. Remember? People go for cool who want cool and will pay for it. The rest can do what they please.
People go for cool because they're told it's cool.
You mean people like hedge funds?
Apple won for a while. Sorry if that doesn't work for you.
"People go for cool because they're told it's cool"
Fox news fans say shit like this all the time....
Denninger says shit like this all the time....
uncool, envious, right wing, drab dweebs, say shit like this all the time...
Some folks may be all of those things, but zenbones is still correct.
People who go for "cool" are MORONS. MORONS. Period. "Cool" means "I don't think, I am following the herd". What would you think of someone who made a particular Forex trade because it was the "cool" thing to do? Cool = Sheep.
Sometimes, cool is just cool. If you don't understand that then maybe you need to get out more. There is some cool going on out there. Find it and chill to the groove of teh coolness.
Apple releases it's Dyson vacuum competitor...the iSuck...and that sound you hear is it's stock being 'cleaned up'...
Truly an incredible product developer.
Developers, developers, developers, developers....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zEQhhaJsU4
Apple, Steve Jobs? ...never heard of em. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7X5ema931U
I'm sure Brian Sack will not let a little problem such as this prevent a green close for the NAS tomorrow.
Seems all that "most valuable company in the world" hype of a few weeks ago was a ripping top-tick...
I wonder if they will open trading tonight...
Yep. down 22+-
...he waited until a majority of the world could read the news of his resignation on their I-Pad, pod, phone...
With honor and grace, a true leader knows when to step down. To bad the teleprompter-in-chief can't live by the same code.
Steve Jobs has pushed the innovation and creativity envelope farther than all of us posters on this board COMBINED!! To those who joke about his medical conditions or the effects on the market of his resignation as CEO, just know this: If you have an iPod, iPhone, iPad, etc etc etc, then you owe Steve Jobs and his decision the respect that is due.
Apple became the Big Brother they originally fought.. No FM tuners (free music), slave wages in China, ridiculous upgrade paths, 'borrowed' technology, everything proprietary, encrypted, locked, etc.
Woz was a cool dude and a good person. I don't wish Steve anything but the best either, but really, the innovation was WHAT exactly? GUIs, Interfaces, and cases? cool.... yawn
Both taken from Xerox when Steve toured their R&D.. He did float the pixar guys though.. That was pretty cool.
Bullshit. Jobs took existing technology and repackaged it so any moron could operate it using his lil' gadgets, produced the bulk of his wealth by leveraging foreign slave labor, and has done fuck-all nothing for shareholders but help churn worthless FRN's on the exchange (many of which were donated to AAPL by a Bernankicidal maniac).
No ill-will towards the man, but an innovator he ain't.
Whatever dude....................Bill Gates stole Jobs' technology and created a company that has sucked for well over a decade.........Jobs KEPT innovating. You must be a Gates fan and still use a PC. Loser....................
Every hear of Xerox?
Ever hear of Palo Alto research facility? The invention of the GUI interface was paid for by the American people first.
PARC, bitchez.
Gates stole QDOS. Quick and dirty intellectual thievery.
lambdamoo in the house
Finally, a history buff. Whadda ya know. Someone actually been around a while iThink.
Radio Shack surprise pack Bitchez!
Haha, look at the stupid fanboy that thinks there are only two options.
Yeah, and Jobs took Gates' cash and made an ok consumer electronics brand out of PCs.
Go fuck yourself, iBot. I'm not the one that's gonna be eatin' an iPad when this whole thing goes down. How much food, ammo, or The Precioussssss could you own right now if you weren't just another deluded iTard AAPL zombie buying overpriced Chinese made shit from your T-cell challenged gawd?
Typical libertarian.
Yup, I voted Libertarian the last time I voted... in 1988. Apparently you have yet to learn the difference between a political ideology and a thing called 'self-sufficiency'.
Think about that next time you're waiting in line to buy your groceries at Wal-Mart with your SNAP card.
<waves to Red Neck Repugnicant>
http://argos.zerohedge.org/article/full-criminal-complaint-and-affidavit...
Page 2 Post 7 since the direct link does not work.
Red Neck Repugnicant"I caught that edit, you fucker.
Get your arguments straight before you approach the jury, barrister."
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/precious-metal-margin-warfare-jumps-pacifi...
Libertarians fo...
"I'm the only one on this forum that's had you tied to a rotisserie, lathered in bbq sauce, match in hand; just because you wiggled out of the rope while I was filling the kerosene tank doesn't mean shit.
Man to man... you know I got you. Nailed you. And I'll do it again.
No tricky roadrunner shit next time, barrister."
No, dude. YOU are the loser. You don't get it. It's the same as the Left/Right, Dem/Rep paradigm. If you're not for Apple, you must be a Republican, if you're not for Microsoft you must be a loser Liberal. YOU have bought into the false paradigm. You are in the Matrix. WAKE UP!
In constant FRNs........................
http://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=AAPL+Interactive#chart3:symbol=aapl;range=5y;compare=gld;indicator=volume;charttype=line;crosshair=on;ohlcvalues=0;logscale=on;source=undefined
...had one of those crapy pad things for a day, no flash. Took it back and got a PC (not an Apple as a result), works great. Lighten up, we are all in this. Guy seems like a good guy, great. I love you too ...Bitchez.
...prayer for him, already upon me. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoIWDN1UDYo
What if I dont own any of that bullshit?
Holy shitz.
AAPL APPS being is being programmed in India.
ICOFFIN Bitchezz.
Whether you like the guy or not, you have to admit this means the end of an era.
I used the AppleII from the early days. I had one of the first portable computers, built on 3rd-party bits; an AppleIIc with a small gel battery and a monochrome SuperTwist LCD screen glued on. Dropped in a 4x clocked chip. It rocked. I was writing statistical software in machine language, and running a compiler for other things. Ah, fun times.
I was the first Masters student at CSU-Chico to publish the Thesis on a Mac. Rented a $10K printer for $500 a month, big money for me, but it was worth it. Had to teach the thesis editor what a "LaserWriter" was, and that I didn't have to use Courier font really, and carbon paper. Took months but she finally got it. Opened the door to every grad student who came after me. Someone had to do it.
Now I build web sites and code security applications. Don't need a Mac or a PC, use Linux and a text editor. But those earlier experiences on Apple kit got me headed this way, and I still love what I do. I'll do this until they shoot me like a tired old horse. Or maybe even after, in my dead dreams, a happy ghost in the vast machine.
Goodbye Steve Jobs. You really rocked our world.
So aptly put..."the end of an era" - anyone living in silicon valley during that time understands oh so well. Those were exiting times when electricity was in the air and American innovation was at it's finest hour.
Woz was the brains, but Jobs knew how to connect the dots and knew how to lead very talented people to higher levels.
I saw Steve Jobs deliver a lecture about the NeXT computer while I was a student at Utah State Univeristy in the mid-80's. Pretty amazing individual.
Headed for the I-cloud.
AAPL opens in 3 mins bitchez... better run behind the wood shed if you wanna glimpse of this one.
Wow... unlike so many, I SOOOOOO do not care about this news.
When will the CME increase the margins on Apple..??????? chirp chirp chirp
interesting timing. avoiding fridays shitstorm or hoping the bernankes words will bounce things back to where they leftoff today?
Had to run the NASDOG today as the PTB knew this was coming....
Bernanke has instructed Brian Sack to go all in on AAPL.
They must defend the equity markets....errrr, Apple....at all costs.
I think they're using the QE3 and maybe even QE3.5 money!
damn. what a fucking legend he was.
Damn. The propaganda was good on him.
More like, the market was good.
Capitalism works. Remember?
I don't know. I've never lived in a system where there was pure capitalism.
There are not many who change the world for the better and create worthy products. Steve Jobs is right on top with Bill Gates and a few others. Oh man. Sure it is his health.
Goddamn, you are a sucker. Ever heard of a guy called Linus Torvalds? Created Linux, which runs most of the internet? Stallman? Tim Berners-Lee, invented the web? None of them slave-employing billionaires? I give up. You LOVE your fucking Monopolist masters, don't you?
Holy Peak Apple. Some where the gold and silver gods are smiling. Helicopter Ben just shit his pants. Apple heading the way of HP?
Ciao Steve,
Count your blessings and count your days, won't be long before they all go away.
Thanks for the PC revolution.
Okay, Mac trivia question:
Who remembers what "clarus" was before it was a software company spin-off?
apple version of Word....ClarIs not Clarus
Nope! And the spelling was correct. Anyone else? Come on Mac-heads, this goes back a long ways.
Easy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claris
come on friends. Steve jobs changed the high tech industry for ever, he is a legend. He totally earned my respects. AAPL is dead without the superman.
Oh, so that was the reason for the no-volume ramp in NQ today.
Had to have an 'insanely' up day in anticipation of tomorrow's 'insanely' down day...
There will never ever be another like Steve Jobs in my lifetime. I wish him good health. Though I never agreed on the decision of creating the Apple products and jobs in China you have to respect his creativity and vision.
Where will the hipsters get their trendy, overpriced crap technology from now?
Is he still keeping the patents he signed to interupt service to run ads on iphones?
AAPL down 4.5%
Zzzzzzzz.....
Americans idolize these robber baron fucks like they are Gods. It tells how fucking empty inside your culture really is.
And what right-thinking, rich cultural paradise do you hail from, pilgrim?
He may depart, but the memes he created still have a long long way to go. BTFD.
Like Bernays. A master manipulator. Not a single original idea.
iLuv your avatar, can iBuy her?
Wake me up when they develop an igiveashit app.
"I felt a great disturbance in the economy, as if millions of hipsters suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened."
bullish!
Jobs isn't dead yet? Is he a living life support machine run by apple software? That guy has some resolve so mad props for still being able to breathe (there's an app for that? life support?)
Oh well, aapl @ $22 in 2 years. It was a great run, but when the brain is gone it's time to move on....unless
....there's an app for that too.
Is the slave camp (foxconn) still in China or are they moving it to Laous? Maybe we can get some dedicated lobbyists and have the underage slave camp moved to Los Angeles. California could use the slave labor right now to improve the UE rate. Nvmd, keep the pop on the gvt dole, easier to control.
Steve Jobs leaving won't be the decline of Apple. People not being able to upgrade their iPhone every 6 months because they have no money because they have no jobs because Steve Jobs and the other globalists had their products made in China will be the decline of Apple. Not to mention the cost of Energy going up. But then again, that should mean more jobs coming back here. After all, the cost of Energy will end up trumping the cost of labor.
seriously though...guess he's pretty sick, wouldn't resign otherwise...thanks steve...still remember playing ultima iii on my apple ii
There's a parable of our times.
Origin - bought and raped by EA, who devestate the ethos, fire all the talent, release buggy versions and suck the soul out... only to resurrect the name as their online distribution model that has a EULA that allows them to police what you install on your computer.
Give in once, they'll fuck you for all eternity.
p.s.
Fuck macs, 386x CGA, bitch! [although, I had to get my first capital when Ultima VI couldn't run on CGA! LIKE WTF!! THOSE REQUIREMENTS ARE INSANE!!]
lord british ftw
i want my Wing Commander back
Say what you want about Jobs and Apple, but he is probably the most influential, successful, business executive of all time. Can you imagine being that fucking succussful? Everything you touch turns to gold? I am pretty sure he doesn't even have a bachelor's degree. The secret ingredient to Jobs' phenomenal success was LSD. I would highly suggest triping your balls off to anyone who is looking to gain a little knowledge. I think that was crucial for Jobs, he said so himself. Best exec ever in my opinion. Did he make the world a better place? That is debatable, but probably.
Your right....he doesn't have a degree.
He attended REED College for 6 months and hung around school for about 18 months.
He started taking the classes that interested him instead of the ones he had to.
This is where he got his interest in Typography and Calligraphy.
You can see this subtleties manifested in the early days of the Mac.
However, he did give an impressive commencement speech at Stanford a few years ago.
I wish you the best Steve.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF8uR6Z6KLc
You think Jobs was the only computer entrepreneur to take psychedelics? He was successful in selling people on "cool and hip" - a fashion designer, no more. If you buy Apple products you are a slave-sucker-moron. Can you imagine what the world could have achieved if it hadn't been held back by the megacopyright corporations? No, you can't, and nor can I, bitchez. You have no fucking idea! Die, Jobs, die!
Say what you want about Jobs and Apple, but he is probably the most influential, successful, business executive of all time. Can you imagine being that fucking succussful? Everything you touch turns to gold? I am pretty sure he doesn't even have a bachelor's degree. The secret ingredient to Jobs' phenomenal success was LSD. I would highly suggest triping your balls off to anyone who is looking to gain a little knowledge. I think that was crucial for Jobs, he said so himself. Best exec ever in my opinion. Did he make the world a better place? That is debatable, but probably.
Best wishes Mr. Jobs,
On behalf of my 86 year old, Normandy invasion, Navy vet, Father. Due to declining health, he can't get out more than a couple of hours per week. However, due to an iPad, he can read his hometown newspaper from several thousand miles away. In addition, stay in contact with his ever declining WWII buddies.
He hasn't had to reboot, scrub for viruses, install daily Flash and Windows patches. The thing just works.
Godspeed.
Oh, and thank you Mr. Morgan for rescuing the banking system. Let me lick your boots in my abject ignorance. Puke!
World record in stealing technology, that what he did. Plus fancy repackaging so that all those green haired, ear-ring wearing graphic designer punks would feel special while jerking off with their dear Mac.
All tech companies = thieves
Apple = biggest tech company
Therefore, Apple = biggest thief of them all
All of them? Thieves? Really?
Sometimes I don't get you people at all.
Apparently you don't follow the tech industry much.
Whut? Dude, I am in the tech industry. A half dozen startups good and bad, radical cool projects, huge launches. I'm right now coding up a killer app that you will use like a mo'fo once I release it.
Ain't no thieves where I come from. Just hard and smart working peeps, tapping that creative motherload, and rocking your world.
Fuck. Why do I bother with this noise. Back to the editor of awesomeness. Catch the luzerati on the big wires.
Be. Fucking. Amazed.
Lawrence Olivier once said "Immature artists imitate, mature artists steal". Ironically, he stole that quote from Jean Cocteau.
If I "steal" a recipe of some inedible contraption and make it something wonderful...did I steal it or fix it?
In My life time Steve Jobs was the Greatest CEO, inventor, insert the man period....reborn twice.....whipped the Microsoft Monster...bigger then XOM for a day....just brillent..wish I had 50% of his brain power and 10 percent of his drive.....down 25 I buy a slice....
I wish American industry had a fraction of his ability. Maybe Steve was not a brilliant technologist, but he knew how to motivate and lead them. Something of a waste really, all that talent going into consumer electronics. Maybe he should have stayed in school and become a diplomat or lawyer or something. Maybe he would have better served the world.
Oh well, not my call. He did what he wanted, and probably enjoyed himself, and fuck it that's what we all want.
Good job, man.
The fact that he finally threw in the towel this time around pretty much guarantees it is terminal. I think some people will be blind-sided by how quickly his condition will deteriorate from here on. There will be no Steve Jobs at the iPhone 5 rollout. There might not even be a Steve Jobs anymore by then.
His talent will be hard to replace - a rare combination of competence in operations and technology. Hopefully, unlike GM, the engineers can stay in charge of the company, and keep it about the little fruity devices, rather than the financial machinations which will maximize immediate shareholder profit.
Just slap a new iliver on him and he's good for another few years.
SELL THE FARM, BACK UP THE TRUCK, AND BTFD WITH BOTH HANDS!!!!!!!!!!!
LET'S SHOW OUR SUPPORT FOR STEVE!!!
(Oh, sorry... Thought this was the Yahoo AAPL board....)
I just come here for the naked breasts..
No man is an iland, intire of it selfe; every man is a peece of the Continent, a part of the maine; if a clod bee washed away by the Sea, Europe is the lesse, as well as if a Promontorie were, as well as if a Mannor of thy friends or of thine owne were; any mans death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankinde; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee....
John Donne
Meditation 17
Devotions upon Emergent Occasions
Thanks for that. We all need reminding. Once in a while.
Appropriate - this does feel like a funeral.
"When a shoe maker's window pane is broken, it diminishes all of us !"......Monedas 2011 Comedy Fatwa for Paul Krugman !
+1 Zapateriffic
This little flea will hit you with a +1 for that poetic nuance.
Hello people, that didn't sound like a resignation to me......"as Chairman of the Board, director and Apple employee."
Forget Steve Jobs and it is time to bury Apple, it is over hyped and over priced. Competitors will kill their margin and foolishly many investors will get hammered. The catalyst will be that Jobs is out and its potential revaluation down commences as in reality it should have done long ago. Spend your money elsewhere and invest smarter.
Good riddance.
Very sad for him. What an amazing life though. Imagine if we had leadership like that running the country instead of a bunch of pedophiles, corrupt morons and douchebags with printing presses.
Why ? Obama invented iLaid
you must mean 'iLied'
Both- :)
Whatever it means fucking mainstreet with the iLied version & getting fucked by wallstreet with the iLaid version..
lol
No, that was Tiger.
Cook is the CEO....not the CFO! thankfully.
I think Apple's weighting on the NQ used to be like 125%.
Seriously -- the Nasdaq just changed their weighting on May 2nd, 2011. They took it from 20%+ all the way down to 12% . Sure was lucky timing for the NQ, huh?
I thought Bernanke was trying to slam the PMs to set up a friendly environment for his speech tomorrow from Wyoming Hole ! This Steve Jobs resignation and market sell off (?) could upset his plans.....big time ! Monedas 2011 The PMs could snap back smartly and sting his ass like a wet gym towell ! Earthquake analysis by Monedas: Global warming and rising sea level increasing pressure on continental shelf triggered the Virginia quake ? Hee hee ! Blame the Jews, the Pubs and above all blame Monedas for his stunning indifference to the possibility of man made global warming ! "In the long run we'll all be dead !"....Keynes "In the long run, the earth is cooling down, then we'll all be dead !"....Monedas 2011
What will be sickening is watching this get exploited
like for example when Obama makes an official statement or worse delivers the eulogy once old Steve finally gets to experience the blue screen
amazing guy founded the place, got fired, got hired back and created the largest company on the planet, notwithstanding the amassing of detailed personal data of users of Apple products
someone should hack his phone and figure out where he is right now.
Shopping for iCoffins.
Will Steve be freeing his Chinese slaves, or will that have to wait for his death?
Steve Jobs said giving Itunes to someone was like giving someone a glass of icewater in hell.
Itunes is the most bloated piece of software ever constucted. It should be called Buytunes.
Could not agree more. Wife owns that crap, Not me.
I got Media Monkey for synching my i phone.
Minor flawscan be a hedache (particularly after firmware changes), but it was cheap and uses about the same cpu power as winamp.
they have a free version on their site
I'm sure I'll get a lot of negs . I first owned an Apple IIe, which I bought for music, but I quickly sold it because a Commodore 64 did it better. A friend of mine had a small company that bought 3 Lisas's (at about 7k each). That was my intro to the mouse and the future Mac OS. My first Mac was a 512, with no hard drive and an external floppy drive. I started with Word 1.0, Excel 1.0, Illustrator 1.0 and Pagemaker 1.0. The next was a Mac Plus, for which I bought an external 30 MB hard drive for the unbelieveably low price of $500. Every Mac after that cost me around $3000, and I owned a bunch. I used them not because of them being a Mac, but because of the available software. I watched as the world was all PC on Windows and I was in the small minority. My first Power PC broke 1 week after the 1-year warranty expired. It was a $1700 replacement of the motherboard. Apple said, "Too bad." I bought a Power Computing Mac clone as a protest, and Apple bought that company and closed them. But, I also had my first PC at work, and I discovered that Adobe Illustrator ran faster on the PC than on my latest gen Mac. That was an eye opener. Then, software appeared that I wanted that didn't have Mac versions. Then, all the software I needed would run on a PC and run faster. I bought my last Mac in 2003, just as a legacy machine and I've never looked back. My latest I7 PC cost me $850, not the $2500 equivqalent for a Mac. I'll never buy a Mac again.
I think Steve Jobs is the CEO legend and I admire him greatly as a marketing genius. But, I'm not gpoing to oo and ahhh because an iPad can do something I could do on a PC 10 years ago. But I think Apple turned into the evil empire, making a pact with the FoxConn devil. I'll never buy another overpriced piece of electronics from them.
Does this mean that all those same-day 7- & 8-figure executive options exercises & sales will soon become a thing of the past?
I remember when there was no iPod. We were restricted to portable CD players and the short-lived mini-disc players. Apple absolutely revolutionized the portable music player with the iPod and its successors. Jeez ... I actually start to feel old saying I remember a time before the iPod.