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Well after making what was arguably the biggest comeback in the tech world ever, Steve Jobs is stepping down as the CEO of Apple after 15 years. He's staying on as Chairman of the Board, but Tim Cook will be running the show. I can only hope Apple continues to innovate and push the envelope as they have for the last 10 years (namely in the last 5 of those years).

Source: http://www.macrumors.com/2011/08/24/steve-jobs-resigns-as-apple-ceo/

If I had the money to do so, I would buy Apple Stock tomorrow morning. Apple should be fine for the next few years at least, as they have more than enough products to continue creating sequels to.

Hmmm. maybe this means iOS will get flash player?

TheMewster (post: 1499424) wrote:Hmmm. maybe this means iOS will get flash player?

No, no it will not.

Cognitive Gear (post: 1499410) wrote:If I had the money to do so, I would buy Apple Stock tomorrow morning. Apple should be fine for the next few years at least, as they have more than enough products to continue creating sequels to.

Yeah, it seems that they are much better off than the U.S. government

not that they have anything to do with business of course...

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Imagine that, leader of a body of people running a 330 billion dollar show stepping down... to CEO.
Incidentally, people are talking as though Jobs isn't going to have as much influence on product design as he has in the past, or is it that he just isn't going to be personally inspecting every pixel in prototype and final (as I've been told (by an avid Mac fan) he does)?
Which brings up another question, and one that might be alittle off topic: if you owned a business, how immersed in it would you be? It appears Jobs really enjoyed what he did and cancer got in the way (he's taking indefinite medical leave). As a side, rich or not, his cancer is still something we could pray for - along with his salvation if he doesn't know Christ.

He isn't stepping down to CEO, he is stepping down from being CEO. He will be the chairman of the board, and will still be involved in new major device development, but no where near in the capacity that he has in the past. Steve Jobs was the guy who would press his face and stare at pixels looking for imperfections. He called the CEO the Google on a Sunday afternoon once at the "urgent" issue of their iPhone app icon having a slightly wrong shade of yellow in it, and it needed to be fixed immediately. That kind of perfectionism is gone from the company now. I'm sure they'll try to retain it as much as they can, but they won't.