http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-steve-jobs-obit-20111006,0,7802380,full.story

At age 56 Steve jobs dies of pancreatic cancer. So how do you think this is going to affect apple?

The worst they can do is to make A humancentipad...

http://www.staredit.net/topic/14273/ sort of covers this already.

Ahh... If this thread needs locking then so be it.

You're really, really late. And it won't effect Apple since he had resigned prior to his death, and set the corporation up such that it could function after his resignation. He didn't leave himself with de facto control of Apple.

You said that in the other thread, but he was still the face of apple... whether he was in control or not is something else. It's not IMPOSSIBLE for something to happen because of it

I was answering his questions on the basis that he didn't read the other thread.

Are people going to boycott Apple because he died? Everyone was still going crazy about Apple products while he was still alive and after he had resigned, so him being dead should make no difference. Also:



Too Zune?

Wait, PC killed Jobs?

LOL

EDIT:

Actually, because of his death, I received an extra assignment in my comp sci class. Fuck this shit.

Post has been edited 1 time(s), last time on Oct 10 2011, 3:37 am by Sand Wraith.

People aren't going to boycott Apple because he's dead, they're going to freak the fuck out and stop buying products. Its buyer's behavior...look at when rumors of his death were started a few years ago? Or how about when Howard Shultz stepped down from Starbucks - when a company sells a philosophy on top of a product, people become emotionally connected to the company, and an emotional consumer is not a "smart" consumer.

Personally? I never really liked the guy or his management style. The fact that people fawned over him when he seemed rather mentally abusive to his insubordinates irked me. But, in his favor, as it sounds like has already been mentioned, he stepped down before his death, meaning he spared the company a lot of mass panic that would have ensued if he had still been in power. I think that cushioned a lot of negative impact his death would have had on Apple. It honestly saved a lot of jobs, though I will say that I expect lay offs (just not mass, panic inducing, glamorized by the media layoffs).

Regardless I think this topic should be locked and I should be posting in the other thread.

You think they're going to be firing people laying people off at Apple because Jobs' died? How bizarre.

Also I think a lot of people (not necessarily in this or the other thread) seem to think that Jobs invented/designed the iPod, iPhone, iPad and iMac himself. He didn't. He just drove the product design and marketing etc. The chief product designer is Jonathan Ive and he still works there.

http://www.staredit.net/?p=shoutbox&view=1453

Post has been edited 3 time(s), last time on Oct 10 2011, 6:22 am by Lanthanide.