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Originally Posted by FlameOn
One thing for sure is Jobs was a visionary and a genius at coming up with crazy ideas. He had the willpower and OCD to make sure things were done right. Question is, does Tim Cook have what it takes to continue leading the company the way Jobs did? Or are we going to see an end to that type of innovation and gradual decline of Apple like in the 80s? Time will tell. The guy was a huge force for the tech industry. His ideas will be missed.
RIP Steve Jobs.
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Yeah, I think Tim Cook's tenure for the next decade should be ok from a business perspective, barring a major messup or tech fallout (not the best comparo, but look at RIM in the past 2 years to see how quickly things can turn stale business wise and thus perception wise, with no real fault other then "not fast enough innovation"). The success over the last decade since the Ipod was introduced, should be able to carry Apple forward as a profitable business, assuming its managed reasonably. The products out there will get better year by year and the cache the brand has and theat Jobs had built into the product, should continue to sell exsisting products to the masses as the years go on thanks to that cache, at least for the foreseeable future.
But with the Ipod in 2001, Iphone in 2006, and Ipad in 2010 as the main pieces to Apple's success, is there going to be somethig in 2015 that will be the next big thing that couldn't be predicted today as being as widely adopted? And if not, does that spell the slow decline of the brand over the preceding decade? Jobs attention to detail from picking out such innane things as materials to be used at the counters in Apple Stores, to the ideas shown off in all his patents, makes Apple is what it is today.